Texting From The Cradle

When you look at demographic groups, as you go younger, you find higher and higher text messaging adoption rates. How young can you go?

LeapFrog unveiled a new product at a toy fair in London designed to allow small children to mimic their BlackBerry-addicted parents.

The LeapFrog Text & Learn, which is scheduled to arrive in U.S. stores this summer, is modeled after a personal digital assistant and allows children to practice spelling and computer skills with games that emulate text messaging, the New York Daily News reported Wednesday.

"Busy 3-year-olds will love to 'play' like their parents do," LeapFrog wrote in the description for the $21.99 toy.


Read more at UPI.

Posted at February 05 2009 05:39:36 PM in SMS News

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