Spirograph, the strangely soothing mathematical drawing toy, has an online counterpart where you can doodle whirls and curves to your heart’s content. Remember Spirograph? The toy set that came with ...

When a British engineer named Denys Fisher introduced the first Spirograph set at a toy fair in 1965, he tapped into a demographic of non-artists who really wanted to create art. Those sprocketed ...

If you’re a child of the ’80s or ’90s, chances are you’ve spent hours tracing out intricate patterns using the pens and gears of a Spirograph kit. Simple as those parts may be, they’re actually a very ...

inspired generations of children to twist and spin gears and pens, creating designs that even the most artistic would have difficulty duplicating freehand. Now, thanks to Ann Arbor-based Kahootz Toys, ...

Programmer and musician Nathan Friend’s digital spirograph is oddly addictive. The spirograph, a familiar childhood toy, lets you make pretty, vaguely trippy designs even if you have zero artistic ...

Spirographs can make some pretty groovy designs on paper, but what if you want to take it a step further? [Uri Tuchman] has used the pantograph on his milling machine to duplicate the effect in harder ...

Voting opened Wednesday on which toys should go into the National Toy Hall of Fame this year. The class of 2022 finalists are: bingo, Breyer Horses, Catan, Lite-Brite, Nerf Toys, Masters of the ...

Three more playthings have entered the National Toy Hall of Fame: Lite-Brite, Masters of the Universe action figures and the top. This year’s inductees to the collection, part of the Strong National ...

Remember the Spirograph toys you had when you were a kid, which let you draw mathematically precise hypotrochoids and epitrochoids (or, as I called them, “neat shapes”) without cracking a sweat? What ...