Customer Reviews

Cool Stuff Exploded

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The earlier two books in the series Cool Stuff 2.0 and How Cool Stuff Works were much more informative and had a plethora of cool new techy gadgets>

This book is not in the same genre though from the same stable - there are big exploded parts of objects as diverse as an Airbus aeroplane to a coffee percolator - I was probably expecting stuff on how it works which is missing.

CDROM took time to load and had no music for the animation nor labelling for the parts and had only some of the objects described in the book.

I feel the book would have done better had there been an attempt to show cross-sections - its too early to have Cool stuff 3.0>

This book is lovely to look at, but less informative and rigorous than you might like. For example, the exploded views are often missing crucial components... forgive me for being picky, but I reckon the mainspring of a watch and the crankshaft of a mountain bike are fairly important parts that ought not to be omitted because they are disruptive to depict. As other reviewers have said, this might look fantastic but it will do little to help your understanding.

This is an awesome book that shows the individual pieces of each gadget and explains briefly how it works. Very large and crisp pictures like all DK books. With the variety of gadgets and everyday objects, including future tech, this book will appeal to older readers as well as DK's usually young audience. There are many fold out pages that show 4 page spreads of "exploded" stuff.

The only reason I didn't give this book 5 stars is because the CDROM, while it has cool animations of a few gadgets, it doesn't show all the gadgets. Besides watching the stuff "explode" the CDROM isn't interactive, and it doesn't label the parts. It's mostly a gimmick that looks impressive, but isn't very useful. Don't let that stop you from getting this great book, just don't expect much from the CDROM.

I love it. it is very informative about from radios to rockets and evrything imbatween/. i would buy it again for a freind or 2