SEGA Sand NEW

SEGA has announced an innovative new product that will put all of our lousy childhood sandcastles to shame; the only trouble is that you need to be a small child at an arcade in Japan to truly enjoy it. This new sand arcade allows young gamers to create worlds with next-gen sand — as we're going to call it — though the downside is a 0.000001% chance that it'll ever be on Wii U.

It's Friday, however, so why not bask in the coolness of this machine. You manipulate this slightly sticky, clay-like sand into various shapes as a projector manipulates the environment to display natural elements such as the sea, volcanoes and more. There are even animated bugs that crawl around on the sand, making it look like the sand play that we could have only dreamed of in past generations.

Unfortunately SEGA has no plans to release this arcade outside of Japan, so we're left to look on jealously and idly speculate on the 0.000001% chance that a Wii U version could involve messing around with Virtual Sand on the GamePad's touch screen, somehow.

Check it out below, it'll make your day that bit brighter.

[source bbc.co.uk]