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Comments on: Crayola colours keyboard... you know... for kids

Layout 

Posted Wednesday 27th August 2008 12:15 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.

Not sure about the colours 

Posted Wednesday 27th August 2008 13:34 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

nonstandard layout 

Posted Wednesday 27th August 2008 14:42 GMT

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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.

I can see Mac users queing up for this one... 

Posted Wednesday 27th August 2008 14:48 GMT

Joke

..., what better than a Crayola keyboard to go with their Fisher Price OS?

Not Vista compliant! 

Posted Thursday 28th August 2008 08:52 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 :-(

font 

Posted Thursday 28th August 2008 11:48 GMT

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Surely even small children will be offended by COMIC BLOODY SANS?!

It matches the default theme of Windows XP at least.

Reminds me of... 

Posted Thursday 28th August 2008 13:56 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.

programming 

Posted Thursday 28th August 2008 16:14 GMT

where are all the |, &, etc keys?

crayola off message 

Posted Friday 29th August 2008 14:20 GMT

Unhappy

My daughter would love it BUT the keys have all capital letters. 3+ yr olds are supposed to be taught using lower case letters.