Neither Snapjoy or Dropbox released any terms, but the online storage company has picked up a photo sharing site just as the space is gathering a lot of media attention.
Last April, Hannifin even did a presentation on science toys to a special gathering of managers from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
True to the title of the book, many of these have involved experiments that explore the limits of human ingenuity in realms such as private space flight, brain science and digital knowledge-gathering.