The new mobile app 'Invention City' is designed to encourage students to learn how to combine things around them in their daily lives and to come up with new inventions.
If you have children and have ever felt bad when you give your children your mobile phone to play with so that they stop crying or stay quiet, you'll be pleased by a new mobile application recently released by the Korean IP body.
Instead of watching some cartoons on your mobile phone, your children can now play a game that helps them learn about the invention process with the mobile app "Invention City." The app, recently launched by the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) and Korea Invention Promotion Association, is an educational game targeting young students and helping them, its developers say, to practice inventing new things.
The game is designed so that users learn and understand the very basics of invention: combining objects or their functions and to create new objects.
Players, first, learn about the invention process by completing a mission in each stage. When the player clears all stages, they can enjoy making one's own creative inventions.
A player can also earn credits within the game with their own invention, helping them to learn that one's creative ideas and inventions can help them to make money.
The app 'Invention City' hopes to teach kids how to be creative.
Together with the World Intellectual Property Office, the KIPO is planning to develop workbooks for teenagers to help them gain an advanced understanding of the invention process, alongside this mobile app.
The app is free of charge and available in Korean or English. You can already download it in the Google Play store and it will be available in the Apple Store at the end of June.
By Chang Iou-chung
Korea.net Staff Writer
Photos: Korean Intellectual Property Office
icchang@korea.kr
