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Here, you can add ANY ideas, concepts that you come up with, whether after a shower or in the middle of the night.

Anything, no matter how crazy, is welcome!

__- using lights and colour stimulation__ __- touch screen concept__ __- heighten senses__ __- creation of object/take-away item of some sort__

More random brainstorming ideas( from our big colourful page with all the drawings): -physical interaction -creating/making stuff -VISUALS, MOTIONS, POWER -sounds -simplistic -no words -communication -age group = 6-13ish -camera -game -vibrations -drawing/hands/touchscreen -using 5 senses/ physical stimulation -FUN -accessibility, both for age and physically -connect the _____ -games/interactive -music -colours -shapes -what's a picture -lasers/lights -competitions/multiplayer/friends/teamwork -build your own virtual__ -app with smartphone (extra something) -magic -applied science -control -special agent or spy (some kind of role-play for visitors) -exploration -puzzle, construction

Even more ideas(from our day with the design team): -what is our objective? -body-on experience -gyroscopes -communication systems -art and science connections -what is the idea BEHIND activity -creatures -creating a world and then creating life -holograms! make one of their own; app is can take it home or print it out -can actually feel the textures of the hologram? have materials there to feel (senses)

Idea: instead of making it just a virtual reality video game, how about doing that BUT the kids become an animal that has to go through their endangered habitat because of clear cutting, water contamination, land dumps, leaks, etc The kids can learn what pollution REALLY does to animals and their homes as the kids have to 'survive' maybe one task (i.e. getting home without falling in mine shafts :S ) I realize this can get a little dangerous so we would have to deal with that issue.

All the virtual reality is there I realized, too, for just the set up at the beginning, the kids have to have no hassle figuring out what they are doing. If they go into this not totally closed room, with a helmet/mask type device on a chair, they will put it on (I think) and an image will pop up. Maybe an arrow to signal the kid should walk forward or something, and eventually the kid will understand he/she can move without moving distance to move in the 'image'. They can explore around, fall in the shaft, realize 'Oh no, that's not good, I'm stuck', and it will reset automatically and they try again. Oh the 'goal' (i.e. the home) should be in view so the kid won't think it's aimless.

Yeah, I watched a short story on how surgeons are using Xbox technology to perform surgeries. That's innovation if I'm not mistaken.