Over the years children’s love of toys has stayed true but times change and the style of play naturally does too. A modern child loves gadgets and techy toys so it’s no wonder there is a vast amount of electronic toys and games on the market catering for this need.The advancement of electronic learning units and games for preschool and older children has seen toys with amazing features with the added benefit of educational value so vital at this age. The main players in this field, VTech and Leapfrog have their own top learning systems with some aimed at children as young as 6 months.
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It looks like you can never be too young to receive your first laptop, best sellers like Wall-E Learning Laptop proved that last year. Kids aged 5 to 9 years old are more likely to appreciate owning their own laptop computer like the Vtech Touch Tablet. This is packed with games, quizzes and learning cartridges for various subjects.
Apart from attracting a large audience popular movies and TV shows are usually followed by a roll out of merchandise. These can range from plush, board games, dolls, figures and playsets all of which can have electronic features for a more exciting game play.
Dolls and soft toys involve a nurturing form of play and were once just simply designed and fairly basic, all that has changed. Now there is a choice of dolls with realistic features along side classic dolls and interactive soft toys like the amazing Elmo from Sesame Street that even does stand up jokes.
Electronic toys are not always based around learning they extend the play value of the toy by using the latest technology. Cameras are a good example of this progression with digital cameras for kids as popular as ever. The new Kidizoom Pro builds on the original Kidizoom from VTech with added multimedia capabilities, games and extended storage. It also has a more grown up look aimed at children from 5 years upwards.
Also from VTech is the new Kidilook an “on the go” viewing gadget that can store up to 100 images. Kids can transfer pictures from the kidizoom camera or connect to a PC and create their own photo story. 2009 also has seen the release of VTech’s Media Desktop with 60 learning activities covering English, Maths, French and Science for 6 year olds and over.
Learning can be fun with the No.1 reading system from Leapfrog; the award winning Tag Reader for ages four to eight years. The ready to use library of 18 interactive books includes new movie and classic favourites like Ben 10, Star Wars, Disney Fairies, Dora the explorer and Scooby Doo. Tag Junior has now been launched for the younger ones under 4 years.
The best thing about electronic toys is they can appeal to parents too. Amazing products like the World Globe is perfect learning toy for the whole family. Wherever you touch the smart pen on the globe you get to find out about that particular country in addition to other interesting facts. To ensure the information is accurate you can register online to receive updates so the globe is always up to date.