You can line up levers and gears into a chain of interactions that form a large machine, or you can use magnets and small steel balls to watch how magnetic forces interact - such as making objects seemingly float in space. The magnets and gears in the toybox are especially impressive. Lay things out to touch, push or pull one another and you could create intricate inventions the likes of which you'd find in any science classroom.
The toybox includes other sorts of interactive objects that interact with the desktop as well as each other. The fun doesn't stop with bouncing balls or rolling objects. You can just imagine how much fun a toddler or preschooler would have with these virtual desktop toys. Better-yet, fill the entire right side of the floor with an assortment of balls and then use various objects to send them all sailing across your desktop. Pile up a wall of colored balls and then send a roller skate sailing across the floor to topple them over. They interact with one another in so many fun ways. There are so many desktop toys to play with that you could easily spend an entire afternoon just having fun with these objects. The angle that you throw determines whether the ball will go sailing into the air off the top of the screen, or hard against the left "wall" of your desktop. It sounds easier than it is! Since the physics are accurate, the harder you throw the higher the basketball will go sailing. Your goal is to try and "throw" the basketball through the air and into the hoop. It bounces on the walls and eventually gravity pulls it back to the floor where it bounces before coming to rest.ĭrag the basketball hoop onto your desktop and it attaches to your desktop with a scoreboard above it. You can "hit" the ball with your mouse, or click on it to pick it up and then "throw" it across the screen. Tap on the basketball, for example, and it drops to the bottom of your desktop and "bounces" on the floor. That object literally appears on your desktop. What's even more impressive is when you "pull" toys out of the virtual toybox. As you scroll down you'll quickly realize that the assortment of desktop toys in this virtual toybox makes this application rather impressive. There is just an assortment of objects sorted by category like sports, ted's castle (blocks), souper six (figures and cars), bumble party (balloons and flowers) and much more. When you first launch the Soup Toys application, it actually looks very simple and unimpressive. You can build block castles, play with toy cars, or have fun with virtual magnets. The sides of your computer screen act like walls and the floor. When you run it, you have access to a virtual "toybox" where you can pull out the desktop toys that you want to play with. The beauty of Soup Toys is that it isn't confined to a single Window. All of these interactions teach children something the natural world around them. Balls bounce, balloons float into the sky and magnets lift metal objects. Just about every child likes to play with toys that make noise, balance, topple, float or otherwise interact with the world.
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