The world is really moving at a fast pace. Have you ever given a second thought while deciding a gift for your child? Well, most of us would say no, apparently, lured by the innumerable options available on the shelf.
Nevertheless, today, the technology has given space to the little creatures as well. Recently, the ‘tech toys’ have entered into the market. ‘Toys’, the word have demolished the stereotypical notion regarding the fragile and tender stuff or a playmate for a tiny tot, on the contrary, the toys or ‘tech toys’ to be more precise, have been designed for improving the intelligence of under 10s, specifically when children are actually conditioning their cognitive abilities.
The manufactures are taking benefit of it, as they are busy harvesting huge dollars from the pockets of parents who just for the sake of acquiring a winning edge in their children are ready to part with their hard earned cash.
If you happen to cross an average toyshop, you’ll waste no time in discovering that tech toys and other cool gadgets have nestled in the place which was previously occupied by soft and squeaky toys.
Statistically:
1. Since in 2005 round about 23% of toys in Australia had some electronic component embedded into them.
2. Philippe Guinaudeau, the business group director of market research group GFK holds the view that ‘Electronic toys are a dynamic section of the market’ and considering the past five years, the sector has augmented by 30%.
3. The Australian toy industry is already worth about $1.6 billion a year.
4. Astoundingly, the global toy market estimates to about $US60 billion.
The Kiddie ‘tech toys’ include:
1. Robotic pets
2. Toy computers
3. Electronic books
4. Mobile phones, like Teddyfone
5. Suzie, a doll that grows a few centimeters on ‘nurturing’, can even sing and learns. You can have it for $250 after all voice recognition technology is its latest addition.
Amazing, ain’t it? Well it has really become a fad among parents these days.
They just have one thing in their mind and that is to make their kid intellectually superior as soon as possible relatively and they wanna have it at any cost. Are you amongst them? And if you’re not, you’re an old bro. As, Fran Molloy says, there are both positive and negative effects of this hi-tech exposure.
On one side, the ’sensory overload’ is playing havoc with their tender brain, however, despite this we cannot sideline the fact the in this tech-age it’s important to introduce these kind of toys as early as possible and it has been proved by scientific studies that this do not hamper or negatively affect a child’s brain development.
Of course, too much and too fast exposure should be avoided, as it’ll just hypnotize and mesmerize the child instead of making his brain accept and understand the simple phenomenon of life.
