Fisher Price introduces baby bouncy seat with iPad holder

[Liberal_in_LA]

Fisher Price introduces baby bouncy seat with iPad holder



Fisher Price recently introduced a new bouncy seat featuring a special holder for an iPad so your tot can go bouncy-bouncy while she enjoys her favorite app.

The Apptivity Seat for iPad isn’t a prop that was cobbled together for a Saturday Night Live skit spoofing those parents who shove iPads in their toddlers’ faces. Folks this is for real. Seriously.

Before you get all riled up, you need to know that Fisher Price isn’t marketing the Apptivity as a way for 1-year-olds to watch the latest episode of Modern Family or to play Angry Birds. The toy company intends parents to use apps that are suitable and appropriate for infants and toddlers, such as programs showing soothing nature scenes and black-and-white images that stimulate growing brains. Check out the promotional video below.

http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2013/12/05/fisher-price-introduces-toddler-bouncy-seat-with-ipad-holder/#4268101=0

[customerserviceguy]

1. I used to find giving kids electronic toys questionable

until I realized that the electronic babysitters would keep the kids quiet for a while at restaurants. The fighting begins when the parental units attempt to take away the electronic stimulator when the meal finally came.

Why upscale-looking parents bother to take their brood out with them to places slightly better than McDonalds is beyond me, but at least when Muffy and Todd have iPacifiers, they don't scream for the duration of the whole sitting.

[Bonobo]

2. Oh god.

[leeroysphitz]

12. Seriously.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

18. Great minds think alike.

Didn't even see this until after my post.

[SomethingFishy]

20. Exactly what I thought of when I saw this...

Wall-E.

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. My mind went there as well

[Politicalboi]

3. Till the iPad falls out and

Hits the baby. Why not make it so it slides in so NOTHING leads to chance.

[Tien1985]

4. Wow, I'm pretty

Tech positive in most cases, but this... no thanks.

That's far too close to baby's head for my liking and there are lots of interesting things in the real world for a baby to look at and learn about.

[NoOneMan]

5. Oh, I don't think this will leave room for the Starbucks Baby Latte Holder(tm)

I believe I will sympathize and aid whatever alien species gets here first to take us over.

[Freddie]

8. My granddaughter's car seat has cup holders

She has her own icon on her Mommy's iPad so she can get to her puzzles and games, and this year Santa (Mom-mom, me) is getting her a Nabi, which is an iPad for kids. Just turned 3.

[Mz Pip]

6. I'm fascinated by this.

My 17 month old grand daughter knows the home button for ever electronic device in the house. It was pretty funny when she tried to turn her aunt's sleeping dog "ON" with the TV remote.

I wonder how this generation will evolve and adapt to the ability to instantaneously access anything. I know we can do it now but we weren't born into it they way these infants are. The social psychology of this is really interesting to someone who didn't even see a TV until she was in school and the phone in our old farm house had a crank.

[NoOneMan]

13. Humans evolve over hundreds of thousands of years to relate to our natural world

The way we perceive, interact, relate, enjoy, make sense of a tangible reality is encoded right into our DNA. We were rewarded psychologically and physiologically from loving each other, exercising, seeing waterfalls and viewing the world in all its colors and seasons through human eyes.

I do not think we are naturally equipped to view the world through an LCD screen, and give love or relate to others through chats and icons. The larger social impact is unknown. We are living in an experiment of massive scale.

My truthy opinion (based on nothing but a gut) is that we might see humanity withdraw socially, unable to value reality or life, and see a large increase in the sociopathic mass shooters that are currently plaguing us. While that might be quite a strange leap, I am absolutely troubled by behavior and patterns associated with people whose face has been glued to a screen during their formative years.

[llmart]

21. I think we're already seeing it.....

I work at a university and one day on my walk over to the library I saw the entire incoming engineering class going to their orientation in another building and almost every single one of them was staring at their I-phones. Only two or three of them were actually conversing with one another, probably trying to make a connection with fellow students who would possibly be in most of the same classes with them.

It was sad to me. The more we become disconnected from one another on a face to face basis, the more likely it is that our society becomes even more like today's Republicans who have an "every man for himself" attitude.

[blueamy66]

7. Absolutely ridiculous.

I'm glad I don't have kids.

[Phentex]

9. Where is the cell phone holder?

Babies love to play with cell phones.

[underpants]

10. Where is the latte holder?

[polichick]

11. The latest built-in babysitter.

[spanone]

14. last year a friend brought his 14 month old son over....

he worked the ipad like a damned genius...very impressive

[Initech]

15. We are literally a few years away from having these in every living room:

[Liberal_in_LA]

19. ewww

[HappyMe]

16. That's kind of sad.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

17. Maybe the parents can have the kid watch WALL-E on it....

...and totally miss the irony of it all.

[Niceguy1]

22. pretty cool idea