Super Educational and Fun!

This talking telescope is great! My 5 year old daughter loves playing with this for hours and listening to all the facts about different animals and space items. She has memorized a ton of facts from this. It's also very easy for kids to use and comes with a detachable telescope that my daughter likes to carry on car rides for fun. This is a great toy and I highly recommend it!

Excellent learning tool. Starts off great,can be improved

I am invested in Leapfrog Leapreader which uses specific books and an interactive pen to "read" the books to my little one. I have been very happy with that and was looking for 3d objects to support that same concept. Leapfrog disappointed me on that front but then I found this product which follows the same principals.

It works very well I must say. Fun graphics on a 2 axis globe with bright colors really goes well with the kids. My LO was really excited to try it and having used the Leapreader, this was extremely easy to get used to. The size of the globe is larger than expected ,still it is very lightweight and my 5 year old can easily move it when needed. There are several modes for info and the pen is reasonably responsive.

A couple of quirks, the pen needs to be absolutely vertical to the plane being touched for it to register the touch. A larger opening might have fixed it, but that's an issue with may only be fixed in the upcoming versions. Besides a little bit of practice overcomes this issue. The other quirk is that the touch zones are large for areas not used very frequently. Like ,for me, India is an area of interest , but even though I touch various zones, it still gives me the same info. I understand most users will like details of US(which is definitely very detailed) , so that's only a nice to have as I understand having too detailed info of each country is extremely difficult. I would love to see this improvement in upcoming versions though.

Other than that, it a very fun and educational toy and does not disappoint.