With a stunning mixture of music, tales, and sounds, all obtainable in eight languages, this speaker efficiently combines enjoyable and training. It is sturdy, has its personal deal with, and is easy sufficient for toddlers to function. Timio is for youths 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 masking classical music, cattle, autos, lullabies, and bedtime tales. Each disc appears to be like like a clock face with footage at every hour, and youngsters merely press the one they need. Additional units of discs are $22 (£15) and canopy all types of subjects, from dinosaurs to studying colours.

The speaker sounds surprisingly good, and there’s a 3.5-mm audio port for kids’ headphones. Timio is a good way to introduce your youngsters to different languages or for multilingual households (you possibly can press and maintain the language button to change between English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Chinese, Italian, and Portuguese). There’s additionally a quiz mode, with prompts like discover the police automobile, establish numbers, or choose a particular form. Timio does require three AA batteries, and if you screw open the again panel, additionally, you will discover the SD card that holds the content material. We suggest rechargeable batteries, as you’ll change them usually if Timio proves in style together with your youngsters. Although they’re giant and also you get a bag to maintain them in, there’s a threat that discs will go lacking.