Online Speak & Spell

by Roger Sinasohn (Subscribe to Roger Sinasohn's posts) Jan 30th 2007 1:57PM

Categories: Education, Toys & Games, Gadgets & Tech

You might just remember the Speak & Spell from your childhood. Failing that, I believe it made up part of E.T.'s contraption for phoning home. Buzz Lightyear used a Speak & Spell to decipher Al's license plate after Woody was kidnapped. From a technical point of view, the Speak & Spell, for its time, was one hot piece of tech.

An aficionado in the UK has put together a Speak & Spell emulator, just in case you want to give your kids a taste of what Leapfrog-type toys looked like in our day. It doesn't have all the features implemented, the vocabulary is limited, and it's not 100% bug-free, but it is pretty fun. Check it out and show your kids just how good they really have it.

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Lea 1-30-2007 @ 5:24PM

Sweet! I loved my Speak & Spell! Can't wait to go play with this one.

Hilarious image, by the way.

- L

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