Whether you love Elmo for his ability to make your kids sit quietly or hate him for his voice that's about two steps away from fingernails on chalkboards, there's no denying his popularity. His latest appearance is in this maple-stained electronic reader from Nokia called Storyplay. In these days of
electronic ink and
Kindle competitors, Espoo has taken something of a different tact here, designed to help kids and adults read together even when far apart. It has room in the middle for a removable paper book with magnets on each page to identify which is being shown, then on the top are two screens. One is continual footage of that most ticklish of Sesame Street characters, the other a live video stream from a remote parent, grandparent, or other floating head who can read along. The video below shows it all in action and, while the tech is compelling, it's hard to see much of a market outside of parents with a wallet full of platinum frequent flier cards. Then again, we didn't think the Booklet 3G would
find success, so this will probably be the best selling thing ever.
posted Oct 29th 2009 8:26AM
Anything involving "The Monster at the End of thisBook" is good to go.
M- M- M- Max! . . . . . . Headrooooooooooom.
Yeah.
Agreed. One of the best books ever.
Grover shines in The Monster at the End of This Book. Everyone should read it.
Should be a decent seller in Europe if you are on the road. I find a couple of webcams just as useful though...
"it's hard to see much of a market outside of parents with a wallet full of platinum frequent flier cards"
My parents would love this to read to their grandchildren several hundred miles away. For now they have Skype video at least.
is that "Max Headroom"? Wow, that's a current reference for the kids of today...
C- C- C- Catch the . . . waaaaaave.
That's totally 'shopped in. And I'm laughing so good...
a new world for kids
WTF?
I like the idea, but it seems way too specialized. Perhaps just a netbook with a webcam and kid-friendly (and safe) software would be better.
Sega Pico??
I'm sure servicemen/women overseas would love any chance they can get to interact with their children. Heck, I bet the DoD would buy hundreds.
I'm reminded of that book from Diamond Age. This seems like version 0.0001 of that.
Now all they need to do is make it in green and white plastic, make it all knobbly, and lower the quality about 90%, and Leapfrog will be all over this!
It's the Microsoft Courier!
damnit!
The great thing about this generation is that parents will do anything for their kids... as long as they don't have to be anywhere near them.
An important detail overlooked by the reporter: this is a research concept - not a product prototype. It's meant to help distant families connect with shared book reading activities. And just fyi, this came from Palo Alto, not Espoo.
Max freakin headroom?!?!?!?! I watched that show when i was like 6!
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