Fisher-Price shipping Kid-Tough MP3 player and digital cam

Cory Doctorow 10:21 pm Wed May 3, 2006

Fisher-Price will shortly ship a "Kid-Tough" MP3 player with big buttons and a simple UI, and a digital camera with double-eyepiece for kids who find it hard to close one eye. I think the UI changes are nice, but not nearly so important as the armor — most of the kids I've loaned my digital cameras to cotton to the operational procedure in seconds, but bash it around mercilessly. I wonder if the MP3 player will come with DRM? It plays music from the Sony Store, which is a bad sign. Wouldn't that be the pits? You buy your kid a digital music player and it takes over her PC with malicious software intended to control her use of it?

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(Thanks, Kokogiak!)

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