LA-based company Fuhu announced a new tablet today, targeted specifically at much smaller hands than your average Android or Apple product.
The Nabi is a full-featured Android tablet designed especially for kids. It comes pre-loaded with games like Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja as well as music, books and more. It also boasts a parental password lock, apps designed to teach kids math and art, and rubberized bumpers with interchangeable parts in various characters and colors. Nabi also has an almost-obligatory Toys ‘R’ Us tie-in, coming pre-loaded with an app that lets parents and kids shop for toys together.
Fuhu CEO Jim Mitchell said in a press release that the Nabi was inspired by his own experiences handing over his iPad to early childhood early adopters. “We created Nabi as parents with young kids we’d relinquished our iPads to,” Mitchell said.
“We wanted them to have engaging experiences we didn’t need to sit there and monitor, without dumbing down the tablet experience and having our kids still ask to use ours. We took everything kids wanted to do on an iPad and put it on Nabi in a purely kid-centric way.”
The $199 Nabi is available for pre-order at — of course — Toys ‘R’ Us now.
