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Edutaining Kids
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Parents' Guide to Children's Products for Fun & Learning
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Edutaining Kids
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Parents' Guide to Children's Products for Fun & Learning
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Neurosmith is
an innovative "smart toy" company that produces unique
musical toys designed to gently stimulate and educate children.
Their Music Blocks, for example, allows children to arrange
and rearrange colorful blocks. The beauty of the toy is that a
musical phrase is attached to each block; and the sides of each
block feature a different instrument. Children place the blocks in
any order they please onto the base of the toy. There is no way to
fail
Also
available is Musini—a system that responds to children's
motion with music and flashing lights. Five musical styles are
featured—from classic children's songs to Bach—and each can be
played on different instruments, such as woodwinds or the grand
piano. 
classical music track. This block
features large buttons on each face, five of which are dedicated
to a musical instrument. The sixth face is the orchestra button—press it and the fully orchestrated tune will play out.
Kids can add and subtract instruments at will. A special feature of this
electronic cube is its pictures of the musical instruments on each
button—a feature that helps children connect the sounds they
are hearing with the actual instruments that are playing them.
Also available is the Sing with Me Magic Cube. This toy is similar
to the Mozart Magic Cube, except that it features classic children's songs instead of
classical music.
A simple but interesting wooden toy that aids children in
refining their audio discrimination skills is Listen and Match
Wooden Shakers. This toy features a wooden tray with twelve little
"shakers", with a distinct sound attached to each. There
are six pairs of identical sounds, and a child's goal is to find
the sounds that match. 
