Could you design an original toy for 5-8 year olds that isn't expensive and would sell well. What would it be and what would you call it?
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Well I sort of did that once... I called it the "ovuthopter". It was made out of cardboard -- for my stepdaughter's science class. It had a place to put an egg, and a helical spindle that made it spin when falling. The angle of the "wings" was set so that the egg could fall from the top of a building without breaking, because the spinning absorbed enough of the energy of the fall and kept it nicely aligned to hit the cushioned tip. The one thing this would need to make it a good toy would be to have the wings unfold after "launch", so you could slingshot it into the air, watch the wings unfold, and then see it spin it's way neatly to the ground, egg intact. I suppose the variation could be to let the kid experiment with the landing tip, to compete with how small they could make it before the egg breaks :)
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Have you been watching the Comic relief apprentice thing? :) I might be able to do if I thought hard enough. Like a ball. That...flies. Called the flying ball.
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