There are several great picture book apps available for the iPhone already. They don't go into a book like this, but they are great supplements (not substitutes) for physical books. My 15 month old daughter loves Kidztory books (Little Red Hen and Boy Who Cried Wolf) and Wheels on the Bus. Great animation, great music, and touch interaction. But like I said, these are not substitutes for real books, just nice supplements and something different to have fun with.
This seems like a bad idea to me on so many levels. This will make your toddler demand to play with your phone at every possible moment. This puts a rather pricy piece of equipment into the hands of a very small child. If your phone rings at the time you are reading a book together, there is no way you will be able to pry this out of the child’s hands.
I really like the idea, but couldn’t they put it in a device that does NOT belong to Mommy? If they could put this in something cheaper but similar to an iPod, I would be so much more enthused about this concept. #iphonephonebook
@Benguin:
Too expensive for a toddler. Something with less memory would make it cheaper. Something made to be less versatile would make it cheaper. Something in the $50 - $75 range would be realistic. Still with the touch screen but made just for the books. #iphonephonebook
Those are M&M's.
I prefer peanut M&M's to the regular kind.
I prefer smarties to M&M's (but not the peanut kind).
I have some smarties.
No camera though. #bigshot
I don't understand what's so gross about this. A dog is a mammal and so are humans. For the most part, we eat similar foods. If it's clean enough for your dog, it's logically clean enough for humans as well. Ever heard of the 5 second rule?
Yet another friggin germophope!!! The only difference is that now someone managed to give you the ability to post useless opinions on gizmodo. #autofetchmotionpetballpettoy
@drsmith: It's because even humans being mammals just like dogs, there's a difference: We can communicate and express our own tastes regarding food.
Grossness isn't only about germs and being clean enough. For instance, pee is mostly germ free and, at least for most of us, it's still gross to drink it.
Safe to say you don't have a two-year-old, Rosa? My sister has to wear out my niece every night to get her to sleep--they even call it "running the puppy." This sounds like a perfect gadget for them. #autofetchmotionpetballpettoy
@met2art: Hahaha - Oh god, just imagine what would be happening in that scene when the timpani starts doin' its thing in the song. #autofetchmotionpetballpettoy
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@Reil: Save Stars, Save Peach: Yeah, about a week ago I got it back. I guess my comments helped atone for the ass-hattery I inadvertently engaged in. Henceforth, I'm being extremely careful about posting outside of Giz. :) #autofetchmotionpetballpettoy
This is by far the most useless, lamest, stupidest thing I have ever seen in my whole entire life. I just ordered 4 of them.
Seriously though, whats wrong with paper and crayons? Or what's wrong with giving the kid some power tools, a few blocks of wood and let him build his own, geeez. #digitsclock
I see stoners everywhere buying this and leaving it at 4:20 so they have an excuse to get baked all day. Same thing goes for alcoholics with the "it's 5 o'clock somewhere" mentality. #digitsclock
@G-Ram: Perhaps as a result of the loss of my star for a day, a few noobs thought they'd be funny a few hours later and post the same ideas I did. Thanks Giz. #digitsclock
It really doesn't take much to realize that this is a fundamentally retarded product. Teaching kids to read a digital clock? The best part is it comes with a warning- apparently all those small parts are a choking hazard to its intended audience.
And where's the money going? It's a just a handful of simple injection molded plastic pieces... it's probably made in China and costs $0.75 to make. And they're selling it for $100. How much of that $100 is going into marketing this stupid piece of crap? I mean, nobody's going to buy this thing on its merits alone.
So we have a stupid product with a high price tag, most of which will go into marketing. I mean, you'll basically be paying $100 to have someone convince you to pay $100 to have someone convince you to .... argh. It's the carbon cycle of stupid.
Yeah, this is nothing new. But I feel like I'm looking at the epitome of stupid behavior here. Pure essence of wasteful stupidity immortalized in non-biodegradable plastic form. #digitsclock
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Either way, super neat. #iphonephonebook
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I really like the idea, but couldn’t they put it in a device that does NOT belong to Mommy? If they could put this in something cheaper but similar to an iPod, I would be so much more enthused about this concept. #iphonephonebook
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Too expensive for a toddler. Something with less memory would make it cheaper. Something made to be less versatile would make it cheaper. Something in the $50 - $75 range would be realistic. Still with the touch screen but made just for the books. #iphonephonebook
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...Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight #iphonephonebook
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I prefer peanut M&M's to the regular kind.
I prefer smarties to M&M's (but not the peanut kind).
I have some smarties.
No camera though. #bigshot
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Yet another friggin germophope!!! The only difference is that now someone managed to give you the ability to post useless opinions on gizmodo. #autofetchmotionpetballpettoy
10/31/09
Grossness isn't only about germs and being clean enough. For instance, pee is mostly germ free and, at least for most of us, it's still gross to drink it.
tl;dr - Gross isn't the same as "not being clean". #autofetchmotionpetballpettoy
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A speaker playing "Yakety Sax" loudly, on repeat. #autofetchmotionpetballpettoy
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That would go great with this orange dog toy also... #autofetchmotionpetballpettoy
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Oh hey. You got your star back. What happened with being banned from LH and stuff? *lost his since to site-specificness*
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Seriously though, whats wrong with paper and crayons? Or what's wrong with giving the kid some power tools, a few blocks of wood and let him build his own, geeez. #digitsclock
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It really doesn't take much to realize that this is a fundamentally retarded product. Teaching kids to read a digital clock? The best part is it comes with a warning- apparently all those small parts are a choking hazard to its intended audience.
And where's the money going? It's a just a handful of simple injection molded plastic pieces... it's probably made in China and costs $0.75 to make. And they're selling it for $100. How much of that $100 is going into marketing this stupid piece of crap? I mean, nobody's going to buy this thing on its merits alone.
So we have a stupid product with a high price tag, most of which will go into marketing. I mean, you'll basically be paying $100 to have someone convince you to pay $100 to have someone convince you to .... argh. It's the carbon cycle of stupid.
Yeah, this is nothing new. But I feel like I'm looking at the epitome of stupid behavior here. Pure essence of wasteful stupidity immortalized in non-biodegradable plastic form. #digitsclock
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