>From the perspective of a parent of a 5-year old and a 2-year old, Vtech are one of the two leaders in the field of fancy electronic educational toys for babies, toddlers, and pre-schoolers. The other is LeapFrog. (My wife, Amber, worked at LeapFrog when it was a start-up a decade ago.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTech http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leapfrog_Enterprises_Inc In my subjective opinion, LeapFrog toys are more likely to have better user-interaction and educational design. Wow -- check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_%28pentop_computer%29 In a related story, I've been shopping for a wristwatch. I want a watch that I can trigger with a quick button sequence to take a timestamp under a given category, e.g. "I just woke up.", "I'm about to go to sleep.", "I just started work on Project X.", etc. Then I want to be able to tranfer the history of such timestamps to a computer. Although I have found wristwatches with a lot of other silly features, I haven't yet found one with this ability. My friend Sebastian helped me realize that perhaps what I really want is a programmable wristwatch. Then I realized that this was somewhat near to what you (Kragen) are currently researching. So consider that if the power requirements and form factor are tiny enough, there may be a market for such a device even in the rich world. Regards, Zooko
