【The Ultimate Gift for Innovators】More than a toy, this Stirling engine is a conversation-starting masterpiece. Perfect for STEM enthusiasts, educators, or collectors, it doubles as functional ...

The Stirling engine coffee cup kit is both an excellent conversation starter at the office and a nifty toy to teach the youngins about thermodynamics. First, you make a fresh pot of coffee and ...

A tiny Stirling engine is one of the coolest desk toys you can have. Since it requires nothing more than a difference in temperature to get going, you can just throw it on your laptop ...

a Newton’s Cradle — all kinds of nifty toys can adorn the desk of the executive in your life. On the high end of the scale, a 16-cylinder butane-powered Stirling engine makes a nice statement ...

Take this 3D printed Stirling engine whose model you can download online. The only thing you need is a printer. Before we take an in-depth approach at this toy-looking piece of mechanics ...

Two researchers from the University of Stuttgart and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Valentin Blickle and Clemens Bechinger, successfully shrank the Stirling heat engine down to ...