Noted Co. is a wholesale distributor of curious merchandise and well-designed activities and oddities appealing to all ages: items that just make great gifts.

Egglings - We could not find info on the Seishin Tougei Co., the company that created the Eggling but here is their website - http://www.eggling.com/. If we find any information on this company in the near future we will be sure to post it.

Flying Pig Paper Animations - Rob Ives' whimsical Flying Pig designs are the most popular paper animations in the world! A former British schoolteacher, Mr. Ives' designs are fine examples of paper engineering.

Rob Ives started making card automata for his own amusement in 1993 with a dinosaur model followed by the Mechanical Gentleman. Paper Locksmith came next in1995 after a lock was seen at an Association of Teachers of Mathematics meeting (in a former life Rob was a primary teacher specialising in maths). The Flying Pig web site was registered in 1997 followed by the second Tarquin book Paper Automata. Six models were designed but only four were used in the book. Using the remaining two models, Flying Pig and Mexican Peck, Rob started producing and selling them under the Flying Pig name. They were printed on A4 coloured card as opposed to the four colour printing of the current models and were first unleashed on the unsuspecting public in a craft studio, now renamed the Linden Tree, in Cockermouth with the second outlet in Paris, showing the power of the web, followed by the museum.

HOLE-ON EX - We could not find info on the Loonar Goupe, the company that created the HOLE-ON EX Camera but here is their website - http://pushforpull.com/loonar.html. If we find any information on this company in the near future we will be sure to post it.