Back in the 80s, I think, i vaguely recall a magazine/catalog that had some fairly bizarre stuff in it. I seem to recall that it was set up as a catalog, but my recollection was that the things in it were science fiction sort of items. I read a reference to The Whole Earth catalog, and my fractured memory went “ping!” But when i looked it up, that doesn’t seem like what i remember. For some reason, I associate this catalog with omni magazine. That may be a temporal association, though, in that i got the catalog around the same time. I was a kid at the time, so it’s possible that the cool stuff i almost remember want really that cool, or that the catalog itself was all just concept stuff and not real. Maybe the whole earth catalog really is what I’m remembering. I don’t remember a particularly ecological focus though.
Why, yes, i could vague this up some more. But I’m hoping someone can say yes, that’s the WEC, or no, that sounds like <whatever>.
Correction! I used to miss them! Thanks to the OP cause I doubt I’d have looked up DAK; I thought I knew what had happened to the company but turns out Mr. Kaplan kept on keepin’ on.
We got those, and I remember them as being somewhat bewildering because we were poor and rural. Couldn’t tell whether they were crap or whether they were good stuff for “rich” people. Weren’t going to buy anything in either case.
I think i might be remembering a specific issue of omni. Looks like they had a supplemental issue called the whole universe catalog - id have to see it to figure out of that’s what I’m thinking of. But i am loving all the suggestions!