Or, apparently, fun in the forest, as the below ball-activated xylophone from Japan demonstrates so beautifully. The video of the forest ‘phone is from 2011, and went viral when YouTube user ...

Japanese telecoms giant Docomo has created an enormous forest-based xylophone over which a wooden ball rolls to play a piece of music. Why? To promote the new Touch Wood SH-08C of course.

just east of the Ball State campus. I asked him whether he had ever seen a “wall xylophone?” He hadn’t. I told him that I had. In the 1950s, I made several doctor’s house calls to a modest ...

Experience the joy of marble ball racing on a TrixTrack wave slope course, complete with wooden stairs and a xylophone goal. The colorful balls roll gracefully, producing delightful sounds that ...

[Ania’s] been working on extending a xylophone in a project called Multixylophoniomnibus. She’s fitted a piezo sensor on the bottom of each xylophone key, interfacing it with an Arduino.

To showcase the natural resources that give the Touch Wood its unique look, an ad agency engaged Invisible Designs Lab's Kenjiro Matsuo to make a giant wooden xylophone that stretches across a ...

Kid Engineer Anjali builds a xylophone from recycled materials with Fire Seed Arts. Kid Engineer Anjali builds a xylophone from recycled materials with her friends and Fire Seed Arts. Design Squad ...

and Twilight. However, the sky’s the limit with these building blocks. The proof is in this fully functional xylophone made entirely from the toy bricks. Andrew Huang is the musician and ...

Its features include a ball that bounces down xylophone steps playing the first seven notes of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” and another ball that rides along a track and causes the crowd to d ...