If you are looking for a very affordable gift for kids ages 3 – 7, then you must get the Poingo. With the Poingo, you are able to touch pictures and/or the text, the their favorite characters are brought to life with either music, sounds, and words. The best part is that the Poingo starter kit is $34.99 and is available at Target, Toys R Us, Walmart, Costco, Sam’s Club, and BJ’s Wholesale Clubs. It comes with the pen shaped Poingo and two large hardcover interactive storybooks. This is definitely affordable, and the starter kit is awesome. You don’t have to automatically buy another $100 worth of books right off the bat. You have a working system right from the start. The book choices are excellent. The books that came with ours are Cars and Finding Nemo, so it was definitely right up my kids alley. These movies are favorites in our house, so my kids had a definite interest in the books. They also have Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Winnie The Pooh. The pen itself is simple to use. All you have to do is click it on the part of the book with the words, and it will read that whole section. You can also click on the images and for sound effects. There are words that are highlighted also, and you get a definition of the word. You can also click on images and find out what they are or get a cool sound effect. Madison is actually able to take this and read the book by herself. She loves having that kind of independence. My kids love to read, so this is really a naturally progression for them.
This is one of the best affordable educational toys on the market for kids. I recommend checking it out — you can even try a demo here.
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Yes, you heard it right. I am completely jealous of all of you, since I only got one of these to borrow! The Sony Digital Photo Frame is worth about $249.99, so this is a giveaway you want enter!
Let me tell you a little bit about this frame. It is a 9-inch digital photo frame with 800×480 resolution and 15:9 aspect ratio LCD screen. It has 512MB of internal memory with optional image resizing to maximize the internal memory. It also includes HDMI output for viewing photos in high definition on an HDTV. You are able to auto correct images with features such as red-eye correction. It also offers nine slide show styles and clock and calendar modes. Now, I know that all sounds difficult to figure out what to do. However, I was able to do this all without reading the manual! This digital picture frame is even BlueTooth ready! You can also run the pictures off several different kinds of memory cards: Memory Stick media and Memory Stick PRO Duo media, SD, MMC, CF, Microdrive, and xD Picture cards. I seriously could not believe how crisp these pictures are. I am seriously sad that I have to venture over to Fed Ex on Monday and send mine back.
Now, I know you don’t want to read about how much fun we had playing testing this out for you, my readers, so . . . . what do you have to do to get one of these in your house?
1. Leave a comment on this post. Check out Sony’s site and tell me what feature you think you would like best on this frame. One comment please and let me know everything you did on that comment. If you don’t list a feature, you are not eligible to win.
2. Stumble this post. If you don’t know what Stumble Upon is, please read Lori’s post at Blogging Cents. She explains it extremely well.
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4. Twitter about this contest. Please leave me your Twitter name in your comment.
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This contest will run from now till August 24th at 8 PM CST. It is for US residents only. Good luck!
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If you are looking for a very affordable gift for kids ages 3 – 7, then you must get the Poingo. With the Poingo, you are able to touch pictures and/or the text, the their favorite characters are brought to life with either music, sounds, and words. The best part is that the Poingo starter kit is $34.99 and is available at Target, Toys R Us, Walmart, Costco, Sam’s Club, and BJ’s Wholesale Clubs. It comes with the pen shaped Poingo and two large hardcover interactive storybooks. This is definitely affordable, and the starter kit is awesome. You don’t have to automatically buy another $100 worth of books right off the bat. You have a working system right from the start. The book choices are excellent. The books that came with ours are Cars and Finding Nemo, so it was definitely right up my kids alley. These movies are favorites in our house, so my kids had a definite interest in the books. They also have Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Winnie The Pooh. The pen itself is simple to use. All you have to do is click it on the part of the book with the words, and it will read that whole section. You can also click on the images and for sound effects. There are words that are highlighted also, and you get a definition of the word. You can also click on images and find out what they are or get a cool sound effect. Madison is actually able to take this and read the book by herself. She loves having that kind of independence. My kids love to read, so this is really a naturally progression for them.![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=20d7e8cb-7bbd-45f3-9672-0d6ea344b3be)
