With a beautiful mixture of music, tales, and sounds, all obtainable in eight languages, this speaker efficiently combines enjoyable and training. It is sturdy, has its personal deal with, and is easy sufficient for toddlers to function. Timio is for children aged two years and up. There’s no want for a display, app, or web connection, as your little one can play content material by choosing one of many plastic discs and slotting it on prime. You get 5 discs within the field overlaying classical music, livestock, automobiles, lullabies, and bedtime tales. Each disc appears like a clock face with footage at every hour, and children merely press the one they need. Additional units of discs are $22 (£15) and cowl all kinds of subjects, from dinosaurs to studying colours.
The speaker sounds surprisingly good, and there’s a 3.5-mm audio port for kids’ headphones. Timio is an effective way to introduce your children to different languages or for multilingual households (you may press and maintain the language button to modify between English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Chinese, 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 advocate rechargeable batteries, as you’ll change them typically if Timio proves in style together with your children. Although they’re giant and you get a bag to maintain them in, there’s a danger that discs will go lacking.