Executive desk toys have been around since the 1960s. There is still an exhaustive market for gadgets that relieve stress and office boredom. Research suggests having personal desktop items increases ...

In the corporate world of the 1970s and 1980s, when businesspeople were businessmen and lunches were liquid, the executive toy was one of the essential markers of bossdom. The executive desk might not ...

Remember the pendulum executive desk toys that were so popular in the ’80s? Then you’ll be familiar with Mrs. Newton’s Knockers. A few questions though. Does Mrs. Newton herself have five breasts?

Newton’s Cradle is thought of as the most elegant of executive desk toys. But that 20th-century dinosaur just got run off the road as [Ben Katz]’s Furuta pendulum streaks past in the fast lane, ...

With all the talk of multi-touch and gesture sensitive work surfaces lately, you'd think it was Apple leading the way in innovation. But a glance back through the archives (okay, only back to 2006 but ...

Executive desk toys have been around since the 1960s. There is still an exhaustive market for gadgets that relieve stress and office boredom. Research suggests having personal desktop items increases ...