Boing Boing: Fisher-Price shipping Kid-Tough MP3 player and digital cam

Originally published at .... You can comment here or there.

Boing Boing: Fisher-Price shipping Kid-Tough MP3 player and digital cam: “Fisher-Price will shortly ship a “Kid-Tough” MP3 player with big buttons and a simple UI, and a digital camera with double-eyepiece for kids who find it hard to close one eye. I think the UI changes are nice, but not nearly so important as the armor — most of the kids I’ve loaned my digital cameras to cotton to the operational procedure in seconds, but bash it around mercilessly. I wonder if the MP3 player will come with DRM? It plays music from the Sony Store, which is a bad sign. Wouldn’t that be the pits? You buy your kid a digital music player and it takes over her PC with malicious software intended to control her use of it?”

Check it out… Preschooler Electronics – Child Digital Camera & FP3 Player - Kid Tough

Boing Boing: Identity thief rips off 3-week-old baby

Originally published at .... You can comment here or there.

This sort of makes it easy when people ask me why we need to deal with electronic technology issues for very young children:

Boing Boing: Identity thief rips off 3-week-old baby “Not only the child’s name — first, middle and last — but the parents’, plus the parents’ Social Security numbers and mother’s maiden name for each of us,” said John. “Everything needed to establish a fake ID.”