Little Explorer
Space-saving Toy Aid for Toddler
Designed by Mike Hsu, Yi-Chen Chen in 2015
The "Little Explorer" is a space-saving foldable toy for toddler. It can easy to stretch and pull back to change the size and the style. The stretched cover offers various types of animals’ light and shadow. When kids growing up, the meaning to be found in these patterns of animals.
As concept developed, we found the problem of living-space in childbearing families when their kids learn to walk. For it, we were inspired by the origami and crafted the telescopic structure for the space-saving toy, and made many a prototype to test the proper shape and ratio.
The stretched cover offers various types of animals’ light and shadow that incorporates the unique folding principles of origami, and it's made from recyclable materials which can easy to stretch and pull back to change the size and the style.
The EVA floor is printed in thermochromic ink, when kids touch floor, these different patterns will appear on it.
The "Little Explorer" solves the problem of spatial inefficiency with a folding origami module, there are multiple ways to play this toy. When the parents want to assemble the folding toy, they can stretch the cover by hands. The assembled toy can excited kids inquisitiveness, and attracted kids to play.
The tunnel can be shrunk to change the different angles with two style floors. It can be assembled different shapes, and make it much more fun. There are multiple ways to play the "Little Explorer", use it as a circle, S style tunnel, or irregular tunnel.
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