⚡ Smithsonian Plasma Ball in Black Review

One star is the lowest possible rating. Such a shame. That is trash! Stars are just unfocused blobs. The room must be dark to see what is being projected. I could only see it by going into a windowless room and turning off the light. In a normally dark room, ambient light will completely blur it. The stand is so cheaply made that it doesn't hold the projector, let alone levitate it. I can't believe the Smithsonian would let her use her name for something so pathetic!

Followed the instructions and after a few days something that looked like a sea monkey hatched. There was only one but I thought it was a baby and my son loved it! Then about a week later it went away and there were other bits and pieces in the tank. They have not grown in the last 3 weeks and I am convinced that they have eaten the first fry that hatched. I looked at the reviews and saw where someone said Daphnia hatched in their kit. After a quick google search I'm pretty sure this has our…

I bought it despite all the negative reviews. You should too. I just googled the best way to get them out and quickly found that they do best if placed under warm lights 24/7 for the first few days to stay warm. It worked! Ours started hatching tonight and the kit just arrived yesterday! I put it by the window today because it was sunny tonight and because of the light from the stove. We have about 5 little boys buzzing around and my kids love it! I let them put together a kit (there are 3 and…

It has been almost 2 weeks since everything was set up according to the instructions provided and there is no life in the ridiculously small/thin rectangular tank. The reservoir looks like a beautiful white sandy beach with a pile of sawdust floating on it. I've tried shaking the aquarium slowly to allow all the sawdust at the top to be fully submerged in the water, potentially allowing hidden eggs to be fully saturated with water and hopefully encouraging life, but unfortunately nothing. I…

This product is rubbish For over $30 ($55 as of 26 December) you'd expect a quality projector, much like a lot of the holiday projectors people are picking out these days carry to the house. This project is not like that. Nowhere near. "Stars" are projected from a single blue LED. You must have an item within 4 feet of a wall or ceiling for it to be visible. Anything further and they appear blurry. And the pictures say "HD" on the box hahaha. The images are on old-school slides that are…

I thought this would be the perfect gift for my 8 year old granddaughter who gets very curious. Her father takes her to museums and other interesting and learning places, and she sometimes travels with her mother when she travels to other countries. She's a very smart kid. So I decided to get her something different for Christmas 2016 and chose this one. With the Smithsonian name I thought it would be a very good projector. NO! My daughter said she put the batteries in and it stayed on for…

An interesting kit. I followed the instructions, did everything that was said. At first I thought it wouldn't work. It took more time than was said before I saw anything. Eventually I noticed some tiny floating things. I finally got it! My triops hatched! But after two weeks they hadn't grown at all. So I pulled out an old microscope (great from my school days) and started a thorough inspection. After looking under a microscope and searching the internet for about twenty minutes, I was…