New protoype from Fisher Price lets toddlers post to Twitter

Students at a university in Belgium have come up with a prototype gadget that allows toddlers to post to their very own Twitter accounts-and to communicate with other toddlers. The device, dubbed a “Twoddler”, is made from a modified Fisher Price Activity Center. It features an Ardino board and photos of the toddler’s family and friends. When the child presses a photo, the device captures that data and posts a predefined Tweet linked to that data to the child’s Twitter account. The device also lets toddlers communicate with other Twoddler owners by pressing buttons that activate lights and other effects on them. It connects to the Internet and other Twoddlers via ZigBee and beat 40 other entries to win the 2009 Innovative and Creative Applications Competition.

Could the Twoddler be the hot holiday gadget of the future? Or perhaps a better question is, do three year olds really need to be tweeting and socially networking? Whatever happened to kids just being kids?

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