Hoberman Expanding Mini Sphere Toy
Product Details
Color: Rainbow Colors
Brand: Brookstone
- Product Dimensions: 6 x 7 x 7 inches
- Item Weight: 6.4 ounces
- Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
- Origin: China
- Item model number: HM1301
- Manufacturer recommended age: 4 – 10 years
- Magically Expands from 5.5″ to 12″
- Award Winning geometric expanding/contracting ball.
- Educational object of art
Color: Rainbow Colors M1301 Features: -Sturdy long lasting plastic. -Includes activity sheet for 21Cool Things to Do. -Includes hanging device and instruction for hanging as amobile. -Rainbow of primary colors. Gender: -Boy/Girl. Category: -PhysicalSkills. Minimum Age Requirement: -2 Years And Up. Dimensions: Overall Height -Top to Bottom: -7 Inches. Overall Width – Side to Side: -7 Inches. OverallDepth – Front to Back: -6 Inches. Overall Product Weight: -5 Pounds. The colorful Hoberman Mini Sphere comes out of the box looking like afuturistic Christmas-tree ornament. It’s a cross between a ball and a star,and measures 5.5 inches across. But pick it up by any one of its dozens ofplastic points and this amazing little feat of engineering, or _imagineering_,expands neatly into a lattice-like globe that’s 12 inches in diameter. Theinventor calls it a trapezoidal icosatetrahedron; you could also call it aBucky Ball, but either way, it’s a fascinating exercise in complex simplicity.The structure is rigid enough to roll and throw, yet if touched in the rightway, it will suddenly collapse again, curling in on itself like a defensivehedgehog. An enclosed pamphlet describes various tricks you can do–if you’reprepared to practice. And it’s so aesthetically pleasing that Mom or Dad mayswipe it for a desk ornament. _–Richard Farr_ See all