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The Smartphone as Baby Rattle, Storybook or Speak & Spell

by Rose Hanson on Saturday 23 May 2009


When Annamarie Saarinen needed to soothe her ailing daughter, she used a rattle — downloaded to her iPhone. Jeff Hilimire uses a white noise application on his phone to make shushing noises for his infant daughter. Tracie Stier-Johnson lets her young daughters answer trivia questions on her phone while waiting in the doctor’s office or at parent-teacher conferences. “You can only play ‘I spy’ so many times,” said Stier-Johnson, 40, of Racine, Wis., whose daughters like the “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” game she loaded on her iPhone.

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