21 May 2012

Alien Eye Learning Tool for Kids



Alien Eye is a learning tool or toy for children that awarded in iF concept design award 2012. The concept can be used for educational purpose to teach Geography to the children. The device is a combination of an observation device and a glob. Teaching Geography to the kids always been a big challenge for the teachers as some children avoid study Geography. But with Alien Eye learning this subject can be very fun. Children can view different parts of Glob through the observation device and the world Glob itself integrated in RFID codes. The observation part reads the RFID code and connects to the Internet to look for images and information according to the region that has observed on the Glob and shows the pictures on its screen. This concept designed by Hsin-Ya Huang and Kai-Lan Huang from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.