Designer: Pip Tompkin, Sam McClellan, Loft Design Team and ThreeSixty Group Design Team, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Manufacturer: Three Sixty Group, Irvine, California, USA
It's important for parents and guardians to guide children on using smartphones responsibly, establish limits, and ensure a healthy balance between screen time and other activities, such as outdoor play, social interactions, and educational pursuits. Excessive screen time, especially at a young age, can potentially affect a child's cognitive and social development. It may impact their attention span, language development, creativity, and face-to-face social skills if not balanced with other activities.
Discovery Kids is committed to creating toys that go beyond expectations and ignite curiosity while sparking your child's imagination. Their focus is on developing toys that not only entertain but also stimulate creativity and encourage educational growth. By combining fun and educational value, Discovery Kids toys aim to create a positive impact on your child's learning journey. They strive to empower children to become curious, creative, and enthusiastic learners as they explore the world around them through play.
Designing age-appropriate educational toys is crucial. Younger children may require simpler interfaces with large buttons or touch-sensitive areas, while older children might benefit from more complex features to discover. Tailoring the toy's design and content to specific age groups is essential, along with balancing entertainment and educational value. These products should provide engaging and interactive experiences that promote learning, creativity, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills. Incorporating educational content, such as learning games or interactive lessons, can help maximize the toy's educational potential.
Sharper Image teamed up with Loft to design a simple but fun starter phone that offers a wide range of game plays carefully developed with the cognitive load of younger kids in mind. The Discovery Kids Starter Smartphone allows kids to play music and ringtones while enabling them to learn about colors, numbers, and types of animals.
