Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Jeremy's idea of heaven will include this....This is sooo cool..

Fisher-Price's Preschooler iPad to Hit Shelves This Summer

Author: Dennis Tarwood
Published: February 15, 2010 at 10:58 pm

If you're tired of your young child fiddling with your iPhone and constantly ordering pizzas without your consent but can't justify shelling out $499 for their first Apple slate, Fisher-Price hopes you'll ignore every economic indicator and drop $79.99 on an iXL for your 3- to 6-year-old. 






The iXL, capable of nearly everything an iPad will be able to do (including ebooks, music, games, and shunning Flash), will be a hit for the Mattel division if a toy industry analyst quoted for the Bloomberg article is correct: “Kids like to emulate what they see in the larger world and especially what they see older siblings or parents doing.”  
So let's all give a round of applause to providing the make-believe object that will finally let Junior play such games as "Divesting Myself From My Child's Desire for Attention", "Overstimulating the Preschooler in My Life", and "Desperately Attaching Myself to the Latest Trends in Popular Culture in Hopes of Staying Relevant in a Fatally Soft Market".
(Sorry; that last game only comes with the Mattel 2010 holiday sales add-on.)
And what must the iXL's father, 2-XL, think of this demeaning comparison to the latest fad in simplistic computing?






sigh.

2-XL image courtesy Wikimedia; iXL image courtesy Mattel

4 comments:

The Mind of a Mom said...

Mattel makes great today, they are always right in line with stuff that is fun and trendy for kids. This looks like it would be great for a little one before they were able to be on the computer. You should see if they will send you one in exchange for a review of it! :o)

Robyn Jones said...

Jeremy is obsesses just like his daddy with anything techy...and he's barely three...He LOVES cell phones, computers....I wish they would give me one..but I won't hold my breath...LOL!

Sandi said...

Hey... I had a 2XL!!LOL(:

Sandi said...

Hey... I had a 2XL!!LOL(: