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Tag Archives: Products
Celebrate National Yo-Yo Day!
In ancient Greece, the toy was made from wood, metal, and terra cotta, and the two halves were decorated with pictures of the gods. In the early 1920s, a young Phillipine immigrant named Pedro Flores brought along a homemade toy Read More
Posted in Fun, General, Products, video
Tagged Coordination, Exercise, fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, Products
Happy 560th Birthday Leonardo
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” – Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, Read More
Posted in Products, Promotions
Tagged Coordination, Creativity, daVinci, game design, Products, visual spatial skills
How to Make a Cowboy Take a Bath
Howdy fellow Brainoids! Winslow here from the Marbles Brain Workshop, where we are workin’ hard on figurin’ out how to get this darn cowboy to take a bath! How to get a cowboy to take a bath is quite the Read More
Posted in Brain Workshop, Fun, Products
Tagged brain workshop, Coordination, fine motor skills, game design, hand-eye coordination, Products, rube goldberg
Cubebot Caption Contest – Everyone Wins!
Cubebot Took a Spring Break Adventure – He Brought You Savings & A Chance to Win! Cubebot hit the road for a spring break adventure, and took some fun pictures of his day. Get your brain buzzing and give us Read More
Posted in contest, Fun, Products
Tagged contest, Coordination, Creativity, Products
Cubebot’s Spring Break
Sometimes a little wooden robot just needs a break. Cubebot spends his whole life stress relieving and helping his owners exercise their fine motor coordination and visual processing centers as they twist his parts into unique shapes. It’s a big Read More
Posted in contest, Fun, Products
Tagged contest, Coordination, Creativity, Cubebot, Products, Relaxation
Update from the Marbles Brain Workshop!
Who knew that Labyrinth had such a rich past? I wanted to find out more about where the labyrinth originated so I began reading, not realizing I was about to be taken on a historical and fantastical journey from Greek mythology to Herodotus’ Egyptian labyrinth to the hedge mazes of the Renaissance to David Bowie’s Goblin King… just kidding! Read More
Posted in Brain Workshop, Fun, Products, Research, Uncategorized
Tagged Brain exercise, Brain Fitness, Brain training, children, Coordination, Creativity, dexterity, fine motor skills, game development, Group Games, Labyrinth, Products
From Marbles Brain Workshop: JuggleFit
Chrissy writing to you from inside the Marbles Brain Workshop, where we are hard at fun testing our JuggleFit Kit, set to arrive in Marbles stores this summer! Marbles is excited to be working with Heather Wolf, creator and owner Read More
Posted in Brain Workshop, Fun, Health, Products
Tagged Brain Fitness, cognitive reserve, cognitive stimulation, Coordination, Physical exercise, Products
Braindrops and Brain Cubes
Calling all Rubik’s Cube fans! Come one, come all for the very first Brain Cube – a game not of color-coordination but of sensory perception. This Cube will work your somatosensory system as you arrange the gyri (ridges) and sulci (grooves) toward a perfectly ridged brain. It may sound like a daunting task considering there are upwards of fourty-three quintillion arrangements of the tradition 3x3x3 cube but realize that you will be exposing your brain to new ways of recognizing patterns and tactile perception. Read More
Posted in Brain Workshop, Fun, Products
Tagged braindrops, children, Coordination, Creativity, Products
Creating ColorFall
Chrissy here from the Marbles Brain Workshop, where we are excited to be developing ColorFall, set to release in summer 2012! ColorFall is a creative play toy imagined and designed by my project partner, Brad Hoffman, and myself. We first Read More
Posted in Brain Workshop, contest, Products
Tagged colorfall, Creativity, dexterity, game design, Products, visual memory, Visual Perception
How to “Spot” the Next Exciting Game!
We had the opportunity to speak with Thierry Denoual and Julien Mayot the co-founders of Blue Orange games, and makers of Spot It! Below we learn from both of them how they have worked to create a successful company, an award winning game, and continue to be inspired. Read More
Posted in Fun, Products
Tagged cognitive stimulation, family games, game design, Group Games, inventors, party games, Products, Visual Perception, visual processing skills