We're delighted to offer Roger von Oech's award-winning creativity tool: the amazing Ball of Whacks. It's perfect for innovators, artists, engineers, writers, students, educators, and you! The Ball of Whacks has many satisfied users. Awarded US Patent 7,247,075.
The Ball of Whacks is made up of 30 magnetic design blocks that can be taken apart and rearranged in endless ways. More versatile than a puzzle and lots more fun than a brain teaser, there's no wrong way to play and work with it. It gets your creative juices flowing! Check out this video.
The Ball of Whacks comes with a 96-page illustrated guidebook that provides exercises for creative brainstorming and problem-solving.
As Bob Metcalfe, the award winning inventor of Ethernet says, "Beauty drives creativity, and the Ball of Whacks is gorgeous."
What if Leonardo da Vinci had gotten his
hands on a Ball of Whacks?
What would Shakespeare have pondered
with a Ball of Whacks?
The X-Ball is a set of 30 X-shaped magnetic design pieces that can be arranged in a variety of different ways. It is a companion product to the award-winning Ball of Whacks. It comes with a 96-page illustrated guidebook that provides exercises for creative brainstorming and problem-solving.
The inspiration for the X-Ball is the "skeletal" icosidodecahedron, an orb-like geometric figure long admired for its beauty (it was one of Leonardo da Vinci's favorite shapes.
Design and create new shapes.
Use it in a creativity workshop.
Use it as a relaxation aid to free your mind from other concerns.