With a beautiful mixture of music, tales, and sounds, all accessible 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, app, or web connection, as your youngster can play content material by deciding on one of many plastic discs and slotting it on prime. You get 5 discs within the field protecting classical music, cattle, automobiles, lullabies, and bedtime tales. Every disc seems to be like a clock face with photos at every hour, and children merely press the one they need. Further units of discs are $22 (£15) and canopy all types of subjects, from dinosaurs to studying colours.
The speaker sounds surprisingly good, and there’s a 3.5-mm audio port for children’ headphones. Timio is a good way to introduce your children 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 particular form. Timio does require three AA batteries, and if 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 usually if Timio proves standard along with your children. Though they’re massive and also you get a bag to maintain them in, there’s a threat that discs will go lacking.
