Collaboration work of Kenichi Okada & Chris Woebken and MBA students from the Oxford Saïd Business-school, Animal Superpowers is an experimental series of toys as sensory enhancements for kids to experience animal superpowers rather than just an traditional play-object.
5 wearable devices allowing kids to feel how like an animal or experience special extra qualities how they perceive the environment.

Bird - sense of direction with a head mounted solenoid compass
Ant - feeling like an ant seeing 50x through microscope antennas on your hands
Giraffe - a child to adult concerter changing your voice & perspective
Elephant - shoes picking up transmitting vibrations from fellows
Electric Eel - enhanced spatial vision through head mounted Theremin

Rather than creating a series of toys and super-heros with weapons, those devices could possibly create empathy with animals, experiencing what they experience. Like tools for play with more layered interactivity and therefore providing an interface to communicate with other species.

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