Awhile back I came across a Kickstarter for a new educational game called Osmo that combined real world objects with the iPad. I thought it looked pretty cool, so I pre-ordered it.
Fun with Osmo!
It finally arrived today and Maile and I had messed around with it tonight. It is indeed pretty awesome. We’ve played two of the three games it comes with (but it is setup so I could imagine many more in the future). One game (which is in the video) you use different shapes to match what is on the screen and Osmo can see if you get it right.
The second is pretty cool – objects fall on the iPad and you draw on a piece of a paper different contraptions to guide the objects to targets. (Basically the screen duplicates what you draw in real life.)
The third is a word game we haven’t played yet.
Hard at work solving one of the puzzles...
Definitely recommended!
(Click here for the video.)
