KB Gear continues to expand, from being a supplier of kids' keyboards to now sourcing related products for a number of categories, from tots through teens. For them, we're introducing JamCam, an improved entry level digital camera and an MP3 player. Oregon Scientific Electronics offers a line of portable computers that lets kids learn their computing skills on a model which looks as if it belongs to their parents. The Accelerator Eclipse Desk Top contains more than 60 teaching activities, including computer skills, spelling and grammar. This is a plush toy featuring 10 lost siblings somewhere around the world.
Children can reunite families by registering their alien babies and playing the on-line game.
These toys require regular attention, such as hugs, chatter and training. Responses vary from movement to conversation, lighting up and hatching out of an egg. In the last of those, the child must keep the Snubelgrass Egg warm and safe or it will not hatch. The egg purrs and lights up during the incubation period and requires a final hug before the baby Snubelgrass hatches out. A website clip explains the hatching process to the child.