Check out my Bucky Balls
I remember way back in the eighties my dad had one of those executive toys on his desk. Crash a series of suspended balls together, repeat, lose your patience. And now close to thirty years later, I am sitting at my desk showing off my bucky balls.
How to best describe bucky balls?
Well the manufacturers describe them as as “the Amazing Magnetic Toy with Millions of Uses”. Really? Look I think that’s a stretch but it’s a nice tag line in any case.
The bucky balls are a collection of magnetised balls that allow you to fiddle and fumble with them as you create different shapes and patterns. Consider them a strange toy cross breed between perhaps a Rubic’s Cube, possibly an Etcha-a-Sketch (check out the wacky Etcha-a-Sketch LAND …so umm way cool and chillin in ma hangout… apparently) and without question a fistful of BB air gun pellets.
Okay. Granted. It sounds kinda boring and somewhat… well.. dumb.. but I assure you once you start playing with them (or crafting a new muse if someone in the office inquires) it can become very very addictive.
The Bucky Ball guys website can be found here.
It has a couple of info-commercial videos that are a guilty enjoyment. And of course if you feel so compelled, you can order directly from these fine folks your own set of balls. Enjoy.
Oh, and since this is our finding and sharing our creative muse part of this website and since it seems all my compadres seem compelled to post with a youtube insert, I thought you might enjoy the creative efforts of this basketball fan as he employs the etch-a-sketch toy at an NBL event with some sensational results.
Hoo-boy! Can this guy sketch. Amazing. He’d be great as a sizzle moment during a tradeshow me thinks. Check it as they say. Man, I am so not hip to the ways.
well they seem like a handful.
ok I admit it. While Jackson was otherwise preoccupied I played with his bucky balls – and I liked it. Now that has been said and done – the etch-a-sketch clip is amazing! A great event idea would be for various members of an event audience to do a ‘sketch-off’ of various speakers or perhaps the inclusion of a courtroom sketch artist with the image sot be included in the event newsletter or intranet.
i always thought the etch-a-sketch was a bit lame, like making sandcastles but now i have a new passion…. Jackson’s bucky balls.
gotta get me some bucky balls!