Mobile Baby Toy. For when you don't want to deal.
By Joshua Fruhlinger 
posted November 22nd 2004 10:09AM
posted November 22nd 2004 10:09AM
The Mobile Baby Toy turns your cellphone into a temporary diversion for your little monster child. Basically, it locks your phone into a mode in which your little bundle of joy can press keys to trigger sounds and pictures that will delight him or her for three minutes at least, until he or she drools all over your antenna, because we can pretty much guarantee your phone will end up in that baby mouth, as it tastes better than anything that could possibly be displayed on that little screen. Available in English, Finnish, Russian, and German.
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My friend's baby has a deactivated cellphone and a broken Garmin GPS in his toy box. Kids don't need lights and sounds to stay occupied. The baby walks around with the phone upside-down, pretending to talk to daddy.
My kid has the same thing. When i bought some new cell phones, i gave her the old ones. She know walks around talking on them all the time. But i could see this as being kind of cool too. Sometimes you need a distraction when you are out and this might be it. Except that the last time she got ahold of my wifes cell phone, her drool ended up rusting out the contacts so i couldn't charge it up.
What is it about that little microwave transmitter that kids find so tasty? Perhaps the faint hint of bacon in their mouth as it cooks their gums? Yeah, my kids love my dead gadgets. Great way to stress test them. I thought my old blue and white's keyboard was bomb-proof until my daughter started dragging it by the cord...
My (one year old) son already thinks all telephonic products were put on his earth for his amusment. What I want is is an object to which I can upload music and pictures for him to scroll through (via bluetooth?) and which looks as little like a telephone as possible.
That is to say -- upload via bluetooth. Scroll through using his tiny little fingers. He is not bluetooth enabled.
Start 'em young! Seriously though, I played around with a working Mac SE when I was about 4. I was taught how to take it from its carrying case and assemble all of the parts aside from plugging the thing into the wall. I was also taught how to start it as well and how to navigate the OS. Now I realize it was all a scam by my father who now has me learn about his new gadgets so that I can teach him how to use them (...and yes as a college aged kid/adult sort person you shouldn't relinquish control of your cellphone to me as I'll end up playing with it for a good long while despite me having my own—I probably won't drool all over it, well unless it's got some really nice features).