An educational system? Hmmm... OLPC XO is educational, has a color screen, plays games, and has internet access. Of course *somebody* can abuse this like the OLPC XO. Don't know what I mean?
I don't see the point of it. Unfortunately, I see kids with these everywhere.
A DS is much better, in my opinion, for these functions. The original DS is rugged enough, and the DS lite has some supposed "kiddie" cases, like the Nerf one, that would definatly work. Also, just pop in Brain Age or Big Brain Academy, and such.
Violence shouldn't hurt kids who are old enough to play with a touch screen and some oversized buttons, and its not like Junior is gonna smuggle games or anything.
Seriously, no one is going to buy the "Didj". Whether it is "D-J" or "Digi", it isn't going to sell. Way too underpowered, Way too cheap looking, and educational videogames suck once past 5th grade. Elementary school educational games are good, but past that point, they either make it way to easy or too hard. I breezed through 5th grade games when I was in preschool.
Why get specialized crapconsoles that only play crap games when you can get a good handheld that has has the good games.
Dunno about "underpowered", but when I heard "393MHz ARM9" and built in memory, and saw a stylus in the pic, a little light in my head went off saying "HACK ME!"
I mean, for 90 bucks, try to get a PDA with those specs -- and frankly, good luck. Maybe nothing will come of it, but I'd like to at least see somebody try.
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aguiluz @ Feb 5th 2008 4:06PM
Is this another crappy Edutainment system designed to piss kids off when the parents buy this instead of a PSP or a DS?
(I think Ashens should review these.)
www.youtube.com/Ashens
aguiluz @ Feb 5th 2008 4:13PM
An educational system? Hmmm... OLPC XO is educational, has a color screen, plays games, and has internet access. Of course *somebody* can abuse this like the OLPC XO. Don't know what I mean?
http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/reuters-shocked-that-olpc-testers-using-xo-for-xxx/
Oh, Shoot... I'm not going to do that.
mushrooshi @ Feb 5th 2008 10:54PM
While technically a game, Brain Age is great too.
I don't see the point of it. Unfortunately, I see kids with these everywhere.
A DS is much better, in my opinion, for these functions. The original DS is rugged enough, and the DS lite has some supposed "kiddie" cases, like the Nerf one, that would definatly work. Also, just pop in Brain Age or Big Brain Academy, and such.
Violence shouldn't hurt kids who are old enough to play with a touch screen and some oversized buttons, and its not like Junior is gonna smuggle games or anything.
Seriously, no one is going to buy the "Didj". Whether it is "D-J" or "Digi", it isn't going to sell. Way too underpowered, Way too cheap looking, and educational videogames suck once past 5th grade. Elementary school educational games are good, but past that point, they either make it way to easy or too hard. I breezed through 5th grade games when I was in preschool.
Why get specialized crapconsoles that only play crap games when you can get a good handheld that has has the good games.
DS + BrainAge > Didj with CoolManEdu
James @ Feb 9th 2008 9:52PM
Dunno about "underpowered", but when I heard "393MHz ARM9" and built in memory, and saw a stylus in the pic, a little light in my head went off saying "HACK ME!"
I mean, for 90 bucks, try to get a PDA with those specs -- and frankly, good luck. Maybe nothing will come of it, but I'd like to at least see somebody try.