With a stunning 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 teenagers aged two years and up. There’s no want for a display screen, app, or web connection, as your baby can play content material by deciding on one of many plastic discs and slotting it on prime. You get 5 discs within the field overlaying classical music, livestock, autos, lullabies, and bedtime tales. Every disc appears like a clock face with footage at every hour, and children merely press the one they need. Further units of discs are $22 (£15) and canopy all types of matters, from dinosaurs to studying colours.

The speaker sounds surprisingly good, and there’s a 3.5-mm audio port for children’ headphones. Timio is an effective way to introduce your children to different languages or for multilingual households (you may 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, establish numbers, or choose a selected form. Timio does require three AA batteries, and while 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 typically if Timio proves in style along with your children. Though they’re giant and also you get a bag to maintain them in, there’s a threat that discs will go lacking.