As an architect, David Child spent years putting pieces together. Five years ago that turned into a new toy discovery, reports Daily Times.
Sitting in his apartment in 2005, the Wayne resident folded a business card.
“Wow,” he said to himself. “You can make all these complicated shapes.”
That event served as the basis for his Tectonic Toys, a plastic-hinge building system that uses business card-sized pieces to hook together through a two-pronged device called the Tectonic Hinge to form a myriad of shapes as simple as a triangle and as complex as a human figure.
He said they have widespread appeal as they’ve been purchased by university professors and teachers and children as young as 3 years old have enjoyed them.
“It’s exciting to see what these kids will do with it,” he said, adding that his hope is that people will continue to create with his toys, as he himself built a 5 foot, 6 inch human figure out of them.
Photo from Tectonic Toys