{"id":40799,"date":"2014-05-03T13:44:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T13:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/tacanderson-kid-wearables-leapfrog-debuts\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T15:37:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T22:37:02","slug":"tacanderson-kid-wearables-leapfrog-debuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/tacanderson-kid-wearables-leapfrog-debuts\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-40799 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/tacanderson-kid-wearables-leapfrog-debuts\/attachment\/40800\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n4wp61sqb11rt5lu0o1_400-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/fearmyblog.com\/post\/84437743941\/kid-wearables-leapfrog-debuts-fitness-tracker-for\">tacanderson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2014\/04\/30\/kid-wearables-leapfrog-debuts-fitness-tracker-for-training-wheels-set\/\">Kid Wearables? LeapFrog Debuts Fitness Tracker for Training Wheels Set<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The LeapBand, designed for kids ages 4 to 7, gives kids commands like \u201cwiggle like a worm\u201d or \u201cpop like popcorn\u201d and then rewards the activity by giving points that can be used to unlock special game features on the band. When kids get a certain amount of points, they can redeem a virtual pet like a cat, dog, donkey or unicorn. Additional points are accrued to let children interact with their pets in different ways.<\/p>\n<p>The device connects to a website or app, where parents can monitor their kids activity and select from a list of physical challenges. It gamifies fitness for kids, at a time when childhood obesity is getting attention as a public health issue and encouraging physical fitness for kids has been adopted by First Lady Michelle Obama as a favored project.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I can remotely monitor and control my character\u2026. I mean, reward my child. So basically this turns your children into a role playing game?\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tacanderson: Kid Wearables? LeapFrog Debuts Fitness Tracker for Training Wheels Set The LeapBand, designed for kids ages 4 to 7, gives kids commands like \u201cwiggle like a worm\u201d or \u201cpop like popcorn\u201d and then rewards the activity by giving points that can be used to unlock special game features on the band. When kids get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-40799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-critical-toys","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-aC3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40801,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40799\/revisions\/40801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}