The project Toymail going to build children's toys that they receive messages by email and read them to children with the voice of the sender or with that of the chosen doll. They also allow children who receive them to answer them or open a chat channel to talk with the broadcasters. The goal is for parents, grandparents, cousins and friends to use them and they only work to receive messages, they cannot issue them except to respond. The toys are very nice, fun and also full of technology because they use wifi To manage the messaging.
Toymail is created by Gauri Nanda, which can be seen at the end of the video explaining the details of the project, and Audry hill, another entrepreneur and mother of three children. Both believe that toys can have more practical and exciting features and that is why they have created these so that loved ones can talk to children from wherever there is an Internet connection.
In Microsiervos they indicate that the project in Kickstarter has exceeded in more than 20,000 dollars the requested financing of 60,000 dollars (finally has got 60,000 euros approximately).
I think that these types of projects, such as those we have already commented on Roominate, Goldie Blox, I Mirabilia and others that allow creating this type of toys like Bo and Yana, are opening new opportunities for toys using science, engineering, looking for Children learn and be restless while playing. And of course these toys are marking a line to follow so that many entrepreneurs, programmers, engineers and designers are encouraged to create products that take advantage of the possibilities that the Internet allows and the connection via Wi-Fi on those toys or new ones that are built. I believe that the basis of the Internet of things is being laid, with an estimate of having six such devices for each person connected to the Internet in 2020 (not just screens) with children's toys participating in this party.
This is the video you make Gauri Nanda to present the project On the Kickstarter page you can see that to get any of the toys you had to contribute more than 50 dollars (less than 40 euros). It seems a reasonable figure to get a toy with these characteristics, the challenge is to see if toy companies or large investors bet on making them on a large scale to reduce production costs. Or see if you have low cost imitators.
