Gear Patrol

Ah, those childhood days when you turned your parents’ kitchen table into your Revell model building station. But now you’ve got a job, and your own kids, who care more about their smartphones than about creating fine small-scale automotive replicas. Do yourself a favor and take back your inner maker with Papercruiser foldable PDF models ($3-$7).

If you’re lucky enough to visit the Limeys in London, you’ll need a memento to remember all the rare roast beef, English IPAs and au naturel smiles. Forego the last minute airport tchotchkes and get the far more clever MONUminis by Another Studio (~$24). These tiny etched stainless steel pieces lock and fold together to…

You may be confined to your desk for most of the day, plugging away at eye-burning Powerpoint charts and brain-melting spreadsheets, but your imagination is still free to roam when everything else shuts down. All the happy thoughts in the world won’t send your boss into orbit, but Papafoxtrot can distract you from the paper…

On a recent visit to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House, we got to appreciate the iconically designed home in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. We figured we’d visit on a daily basis with the new, albeit slightly smaller LEGO Architecture Series Robie House. Showcasing Wright’s simple prairie style, the Robie House contains no fewer than 2,276…

If beauty is about grabbing attention, you won’t need a Ph.D in rocket science to comprehend how lovely Isabeli was discovered at the young age of 16. Yes, for better or worse, this Brazilian (shocker!) and formerly Mormon (umm..shocker?) vixen made her start appearing in Victoria Secret’s lingerie catalog while she was still a minor….