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Vtech - V.Smile Baby - Infant Development System | 
 enlarge | Brand: VTech
Category: Toy
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $34.49
You Save: $5.50 (14%)
New (10) from $34.49
Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 1308
Color: one color
Batteries: 4
Batteries Included: No
Age: 9 months - 3 years
Battery: 3 AA
Size: one size
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.9
Dimensions (in): 4.9 x 13 x 16.1
MPN: 069000
Model: 80-69000-004
UPC: 050803690007
EAN: 0050803690007
ASIN: B000EQGSXS
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: ships out next day
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| Features:
| • | Offers 3 modes of learning, Play Time, Watch & Learn, and Learn & Explore, where your baby can go from playing to watching educational videos to making choices about what he wants to learn | | • | Connects wirelessly to a receiver, which transmits from to up to 9 feet away | | • | Activity panel provides independent learning on-the-go for the youngest learners | | • | One Smartridge included; Each Baby Smartridge offers unique learning activities and includes 5 different baby signs | | • | Includes activity panel, console receiver, and Learn & Discover Home Baby Smartridge |
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Product Description
Beam a smile onto your little one's face and connect her to a world of interactive learning. The V.Smile Baby System goes above and beyond passive developmental videos and offers a breakthrough, interactive approach to learning. A colorful panel fits comfortably in your child's lap and connects wirelessly to a receiver that hooks right into your TV. The signal works from up to 15 feet away, and won't falter no matter how high up or low your baby holds it. With V.Smile Baby, choose from three "Grow with Me" play modes. Select "Play Time" mode on the panel and watch your baby play with the colorful, easy-to-press buttons while hearing fun, educational phrases. Select "Watch and Learn" mode and your baby can enjoy educational videos that come complete with baby sign language. And "Learn and Explore" mode lets your child direct the play on the screen by choosing the subjects he or she wants to explore. The V.Smile Baby System works with V.Smile Baby Smartridges (sold separately), which slide into the receiver. Each Smartridge features five learning games with 10 different baby signs and teaches skills including colors, numbers, sounds music and shapes. System measures 13"H x 16"W x 4.7"D.
Editorial Review
Engaging, expandable, and fun, the V.Smile Baby Infant Development System connects your child to a world of interactive learning. A colorful activity panel lined with a soft bumper is baby's touchable playcenter, filled with colorful shapes, a rolling ball, and jumbo button. Play-Alone mode allows baby to explore the sounds and activities on the panel, or plug the console into the television and the panel connects wirelessly to interact with the animated learning environment they see on the screen. Designed for children from nine to 36 months old, V.Smile Baby teaches numbers, shapes, music, colors, animals--even baby sign language--all with the help of engaging Smartridges like the one included (others are sold separately). Three activity modes allow the system to grow, as parents and children find age-appropriate play. Measuring approximately 8 by 14 by 2-1/2 inches, the wireless panel proves perfectly lap-worthy, although we wish it included a handle for the inevitable toting around by toddlers. --Heather Lyndon
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| Customer Reviews: Read 42 more reviews...
 Don't be deceived November 27, 2008
A.P. (New Mexico)
Our son received this as a gift when he turned 1 year old. He had fun listening to the silly sounds the buttons on the keyboard make when pressed but has not learned much of anything else from this toy. As for the TV play part of this toy, I feel it is the biggest waste of money. Cause and effect are not easily recognized by the player due to the lack of good graphics and dramatic changes when buttons are pushed. My son gets frustrated and bored quickly with this setting and finds more entertainment in turning it on and off. At first I thought my son did not have the maturity for this toy, but he is now 2 years old and does not want to play with it. Don't waste your money!
 my girls LOVE it!!! October 8, 2008
Patci E. Estes
i purchased this toy for my twins first birthday and i couldnt wait till then to give it to them! lol... they LOVE it!!! they will actually sit still and play it!
 not worth the money September 21, 2008
Gina Buckley (Goose Creek, South Carolina)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
an aunt bought this for my son for christmas when he was 14 months old. he never really got into it. i thought he would at least benefit from the "learn sign language" feature on the games but they were not at all attention grabbing. he was much more interested in the part that held the game cartridge, which unfortunately had to be within his reach in order for the "controller" to work and so we never got very far with this product. he is almost three now and i have another one year old so i often think about turning this on to see if they would be interested but most of the game cartridges are lost in my house right now.
the "controller" has a play on your own feature and my son and daughter have always loved that. but it by itself is definitely not worth the cost of this product.
 V.smile Baby vs. little leaps July 28, 2008
K. Terry
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Okay, my husband and i were torn between the v.baby smile and the leap frog little leaps for our daughter's first birthday. I spent DAYS online reading and comparing reviews. After hearing so many conflicting opinions we finally decided to buy them both and figure it out for ourselves. Here is what we came up with. Yes, the graphics are WAY better on the little leaps. But thats about the only thing we liked about the little leaps in comparison. The V.smile baby has graphics that will definately get the job done and was easier to set up. But the thing that REALLY sold us on the v.smile was that when you pressed a button something IMMEDIATELY changed on the screen. Even when the cartoons are talking and you are not instructed to push a button something little will pop up after a button is pushed. The cartoon continues explaining so you dont loose any information but the child can also see the effect of pushing that button. With the little leaps if you pushed a button out of turn nothing happend. And they talked alot and asked for little response. When they did want you to press a button the screen would just pause until you did. So to me it felt like watching an educational video and the child just has the pause and play buttons. Since we are buying it for our daughter's first birthday that would put her in the lower end of the recommended age for these toys so we wanted to go with the one that would hold her attention longer and would enforce things like cause and effect because she is going to care more about something popping up when she hits a button than what the cartoon is saying to her, atleast for now. Another plus to the v.smile baby is that the activity panel is a toy on its own and it offers sign language. Hope this helps anyone else that was in the same situation as us. Keep in mind that we did not buy any games for the systems since we were just testing them out so this review is based on the sample games that come with the systems. Also this review is based on what my huband and i noticed when we played with it, its a gift for our daughter so she has not yet played with it so i cant tell you how she responded to either of these toys. End result, the little leaps is getting returned and the V.smile is getting wrapped for her birthday.
Wonderful! June 14, 2008
M. Folkes (MD)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is great I don't see why people don't like it...the graphics are just fine. I bought this for my 3 month old son and he likes to look at it on tv...really it's not that bad of a product. Not bad at all!
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