I might think this was an April Fool’s, if we weren’t halfway through May. A British company name Communic8 is hawking the BabyMo, a mobile phone for toddlers. And we’re not talking about a Fisher-Price special that makes cute little ring-a-ding sounds while junior drools into the handset. We’re talking about a working, pay-per-minute, “let’s do Vienna sausage and strained peas for lunch” mobile phone. It can be programmed with five numbers and those numbered are dialed by the three buttons on the phone. This looks to be a basic repackaging of a phone for kids that showed up in the UK several years ago, but went ‘bye-bye” in the wake of phone radiation hysteria. Wouldn’t want the little tykes to scramble their eggs while tooling around on the Big Wheel. After all, that’s what TV is for.
Hardware Beyond the Hype