Nice gift for kids

I've been meaning to do this post for a while. If you have kids in your life, consider this inexpensive gift. That's an image of the Deco Cube on the left. It's a battery-powered light and it looks very cool.

They're sold at Edmund Scientific and they only cost $9.95. You simply press down on the top of the plastic cube to turn it on or off. It's great fun because you can change the color of the light. There are five constant (i.e., steady and unchanging) colors to choose from. The choices are blue, red, green or white -- or you can choose a setting that combines colors. When on the latter setting, the light doesn't just range through the colors I mentioned -- it mixes them so all sorts of colors appear.

The lights run for quite a long time on three AA batteries. Or you can buy a 4.5 volt AC to DC adaptor (elsewhere) and run the light on the plug. Either way, they're great (and perfect for those nights when you lose power).
 
The light is a soft, glowing color except when it's on the white setting (and green is rather bright too). You change colors with a slider on the bottom of the cube. Kids love these things. It immediately becomes their nightlight, or cool-kids light when friends come over. Be cool yourself and get one for a kid. You'll be glad you did. (They've also got a 30X pocket microscope for $40. I suspect most kids, particularly boys, would like one.)