NEUROSMITH Musical Touch

Difficult to use.

You can really play this game by yourself, but of course it's almost more fun with others. If you have one hand on a contact point and touch another contact point with the other hand then it will still make the sound. If playing with others you have to be sure to touch their skin in order for it to work. When the setting is on a musical song it will play each note when you touch someone, but when it gets to a certain point it will stop and you have you set it up again. If playing it on the instrument sound setting or the animal sound setting, then it will stay on unless it has not been played with for a couple minutes and then it will turn off on its own. There is no power switch that I am aware of - it turns off on it's own after a few minutes if not in use.

We've spent so much time playing with this! Who would have thought that this little toy would be so entertaining! Everyone in the family likes it and has found new ways to play. It's been great for teaching the youngers about circuits and how/why this works as well as just being fun to make music with. I don't know how long it will keep my kids interest but it sits in our living room so that when anyone comes over, it's picked up and played with. Each person who plays with it is fascinated and spends a good amount of time making music with us!

Out of the box, this toy was a big hit. It was so neat that touching other people made music (or percussive sounds, or animal noises) and my son loved it. He kept wanting to poke my nose, touch my arms, touch my legs. He experimented with tapping fast and slow, and cycled through all the different sounds. Touched me AND my husband at once, then touched us in succession. But then he was done with it. And he hasn't been interested in the toy since. The problem is that it has lost its novelty and really, that's all this toy has going for it. There's no imagination involved, no creative process going on. It's not an open-ended toy at all. So now, it just sits on his book shelf. I've tried to entice him to play with it but no luck so far. Oh well.

I bought this for my grandchildren and I think the adults had more fun with it than the children did. It's a toy, music, and science lesson all in one.

Perfect toy for different ages to interact! My twenty year olds play with their younger cousins with this for hours and they all had a blast. The eighteen month old likes to play with the sounds all on his own too. Great toy!