Kid-friendly lobbies.

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After you've taken steps to make your customers feel comfortable in your lobby, you might want to make their kids feet comfortable, too. And Great Waits, a division of Playscapes Inc. of Madison, Wisc., might have just the sort of thing you're looking for.

Great Waits offers a line of children's activity centers designed for lobbies and waiting rooms. These items aren't your usual roomsized playground paraphernalia-no particleboard slides or merry-go-rounds here. Rather, there's "The Spinmazer," a wall-mounted maze that spins on its axis so that a youngster can navigate a small disk from one point to another. "Hands-On" is described as "finger painting without the mess." It's another wallmounted board, which is coated with heatsensitive film that reacts to the heat of a child's hand to change color without paints or crayons-like the mood rings that were popular in the 1970s.

A variety of...