Reviews:

“A collector's antique shop & yard-sale handbook as compelling as a bowl of peanuts.” — Cape Cod Home & Garden

"Being a life-long lover of puzzles and mind games, I've collected lots of brain teaser books over the years. The title of this book really caught my eye. After all, aren't all brain teaser books "left-brained" by definition? Not necessarily so with this book."

Objects you have never seen before challenge your right brain more than familiar ones. The left brain specializes in comparing new experiences with past ones and trying to apply rules such as grammar and conventional symbols. The right brain excels at processing images you’ve never seen before — the face of someone you don’t know, or, for a child, his or her first encounter with a swinging door.

To deduce what practical function an object is designed to perform you must visualize the components of its design. If you have nothing but a picture to work from, you have to imagine what the gadget looks like in action and thus deduce its operation. What materials is it made of? Why those? How do its separate components fit together and interact? And, most important, what practical tasks would those design elements accomplish? You can uncover those answers only by inspecting it from all sides in your mind’s eye.

No matter how you use this book, we hope you, your brain and your brain’s friends have a good time with it.”