{"id":25896,"date":"2013-10-23T06:40:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T13:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=25896"},"modified":"2017-07-06T23:38:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T06:38:54","slug":"geno-the-giraffe-toy-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/accessories\/geno-the-giraffe-toy-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Geno the Giraffe Toy Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excuse me while I geek out a little bit over this cardboard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kineticcreatures.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Kinetic Creature<\/a>. You build it from a simple tab-and-slot kit, and, when you turn the wire handle, the Giraffe (or <a href=\"http:\/\/raredevice.net\/collections\/new\/products\/rory-the-rhino-toy\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">rhino<\/a>) walks along thanks to a simple mechanical motion. While it&#8217;s recommended for ages 11+, I think most everyone will find it a little fascinating. And, if you like the idea, be sure to look into Theo Jansen&#8217;s more advanced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strandbeest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Strandbeest<\/a>. There&#8217;s even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strandbeest.com\/shop\/index_usa.php\" target=\"_blank\" >Miniature Beast<\/a> kits available for purchase on the Strandbeest web shop ($75); they&#8217;re slightly more complicated than these cardboard toys, but the reward looks to be worth the effort.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The kit includes 25 pre-cut and scored cardboard pieces, wire turn-handle, printed and online video instructions.<\/p>\n<p>DIMENSIONS: 9.5&#8243; T x 15.5&#8243; L<br \/>\nDESIGNER: Kinetic Creatures<br \/>\nQTY<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rory the Rhino Toy Kit\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/Rory-walking-rhino.jpg?w=513&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/raredevice.net\/collections\/new\/products\/rory-the-rhino-toy\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Rory the Rhino Toy Kit<\/a>, $40.00<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kineticcreatures.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Elly the Elephant<\/a>, $39.95, is available on Kinetic Creatures&#8217; website. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excuse me while I geek out a little bit over this cardboard Kinetic Creature. You build it from a simple tab-and-slot kit, and, when you turn the wire handle, the Giraffe (or rhino) walks along thanks to a simple mechanical motion. While it&#8217;s recommended for ages 11+, I think most everyone will find it a [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[120,221],"tags":[140,450],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/Rory-walking-rhino.jpg?fit=513%2C377&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38338,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25896\/revisions\/38338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}