Troposcope IS AT ONCE TOY AND TOOL

At the most basic level, Troposcope is a skill toy. I discovered it through play, and therefore I consider it a toy and insist on this definition. Yet it is more than that. Many people, myself included, experience a feeling of meditation while using Troposcope. The concentration required to make it work is very much like that which makes meditation such a powerful tool. Plain and simple - if you’re distracted, it wont work.

Troposcope can definitely improve not only physical coordination, but also mental focus.

Troposcope is a novel physical device based on the ancient archetypal pattern of concentric circles. A little research will show how long humans have found this pattern compelling. It appears in our earliest art - pecked into rocks on every continent where humans have lived - and in myth, magic, religious thought, and science. When people first see it in operation there is an almost universal response of fascination. This is based on the compelling nature of concentric circular forms and on the seeming impossibility of making several objects orbit independently around the same point without colliding. There’s a paradoxical feeling of familiarity and novelty.

My goal with Troposcope is two-fold

1. The first aspect has to do with the physical : To provide you with a toy available nowhere else, with the thrill of learning to do something new, and the improvements in coordination which this requires.

2. The second has to do with the psychological : To provide you with a novel method for exploration of your own creative path.

Troposcope is the result of following my dreams and innate, intuitive tendencies. Like many inventors, I feel like this creation came through me, rather than from me. In examining how I came to create this thing, I identified a distinct category in my childhood experiences which led me to this discovery. Through the blog and newsletter I will guide those who wish to follow toward recalling their own similar fascination and their own source of creativity.