With a beautiful mixture of music, tales, and sounds, all obtainable in eight languages, this speaker efficiently combines enjoyable and schooling. It’s sturdy, has its personal deal with, and is straightforward sufficient for toddlers to function. Timio is for youths aged two years and up. There’s no want for a display screen, app, or web connection, as your youngster can play content material by choosing one of many plastic discs and slotting it on high. You get 5 discs within the field protecting classical music, cattle, autos, lullabies, and bedtime tales. Every disc appears like a clock face with footage at every hour, and youngsters merely press the one they need. Further units of discs are $22 (£15) and canopy all kinds of matters, from dinosaurs to studying colours.
The speaker sounds surprisingly good, and there’s a 3.5-mm audio port for youths’ headphones. Timio is an effective way to introduce your youngsters to different languages or for multilingual households (you’ll be able to press and maintain the language button to change between English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Chinese language, Italian, and Portuguese). There’s additionally a quiz mode, with prompts like discover the police automobile, determine numbers, or choose a selected form. Timio does require three AA batteries, and whenever you screw open the again panel, additionally, you will discover the SD card that holds the content material. We suggest rechargeable batteries, as you’ll change them usually if Timio proves widespread along with your youngsters. Though they’re giant and also you get a bag to maintain them in, there’s a threat that discs will go lacking.
