there is no way I would harm my kids getting them used to it! And if they happen to have it in school ... I would have a serious talk with head teacher.
But the fact it's a big buttoned keyboard 'without any speacial windows keys' is exactly what I've been looking for for my toddler.
He does like to bash on the keyboard, and somehow always manages to press the random selection of windows + letter to do stuff I didn't realise there was a shortcut key for! Kids today always think they know more than their parents, and apparently even without trying, they're right!
...that late 80s(?) Amstrad range of home electricals (not computers) that used coloured buttons and their USP was that they were - supposedly - particularly easy to use.
So not the CPC464 et al, but it used a similar logic.
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Crayola colours keyboard... you know... for kids
David Gosnell
Layout #
Posted Wednesday 27th August 2008 14:10 GMT
Pretty, but why teach kids on a fundamentally flawed layout?
Quite aside from the bizarre punctuation etc placement, alpha-numeric keys on a grid may just about be forgiveable on a PDA, but not here.
Bronek Kozicki
nonstandard layout #
Posted Wednesday 27th August 2008 16:20 GMT
there is no way I would harm my kids getting them used to it! And if they happen to have it in school ... I would have a serious talk with head teacher.
Anonymous Coward
I can see Mac users queing up for this one... #
Posted Wednesday 27th August 2008 16:20 GMT
..., what better than a Crayola keyboard to go with their Fisher Price OS?
Skinny
Not sure about the colours #
Posted Wednesday 27th August 2008 16:20 GMT
But the fact it's a big buttoned keyboard 'without any speacial windows keys' is exactly what I've been looking for for my toddler.
He does like to bash on the keyboard, and somehow always manages to press the random selection of windows + letter to do stuff I didn't realise there was a shortcut key for! Kids today always think they know more than their parents, and apparently even without trying, they're right!
Let's see him do that with one of these
Steve Simmonds
Not Vista compliant! #
Posted Thursday 28th August 2008 09:43 GMT
It has no Windows Bubble key and so cannot be Vista compliant - therefore it cannot be shipped with a Vista system by PC builders :-(
Anonymous Coward
font #
Posted Thursday 28th August 2008 12:09 GMT
Surely even small children will be offended by COMIC BLOODY SANS?!
It matches the default theme of Windows XP at least.
W
Reminds me of... #
Posted Thursday 28th August 2008 15:43 GMT
...that late 80s(?) Amstrad range of home electricals (not computers) that used coloured buttons and their USP was that they were - supposedly - particularly easy to use.
So not the CPC464 et al, but it used a similar logic.
Jasper
programming #
Posted Thursday 28th August 2008 17:28 GMT
where are all the |, &, etc keys?
Paul Hester
crayola off message #
Posted Friday 29th August 2008 14:35 GMT
My daughter would love it BUT the keys have all capital letters. 3+ yr olds are supposed to be taught using lower case letters.