However the beauty of this awesome mini plasma ball is that you dont have to wrestle Klingons in the outer regions of the Thark Quadrant to play with it.

Just plug this neat gizmo into your USB port and streams of red and blue plasma light will flicker out from the core of the handblown glass sphere throwing mesmerising light trails across its surface.

Touch the sphere with your fingers and blue light will shoot out towards your fingertips.

Absurdly cheap considering the sheer weight of scientific brilliance stuffed inside of it the Mini USB Plasma Ball is just 13cm high and is an utterly compelling science project cum wanna have desktop diversion.

Features USB powered sphere with coloured lightning flashes inside.

At touch blue flashes of lightning will move to greet your fingertips.

Suitable for ages 8 years.

Requires a computer/adaptor with a USB port USB cable included.

Handblown sphere 8 cm diameter.

Size 13 x 10 x 10cm.