Lego Makes Learning Fun With Duplo Stories Alexa Skill

Lego simply launched a new Amazon Alexa skill designed to make learning fun.

Developed for children anile 2 to 5, the free skill, which is bachelor via whatever Amazon Alexa-enabled device like the Echo or Echo Dot, offers fun stories that encourage your kids to participate using the Lego Duplo toys they already ain. The stories are designed to spark your petty one's imagination while helping to teach them numbers, colors, and language skills.

There are 10 stories to cull from based on new and existing Lego Duplo products. One tells the story of a big, happy truck that gets to work on a new structure site. It encourages kids to use their bricks to build a house, then knock it down again and build a bigger one, all while practicing their language and motor skills.

If your kid is more into planes, cars, boats, or trains, there are stories for those themes, too. The Alexa skill too offers v brute-themed stories featuring a rabbit, moo-cow, true cat, bird, and dog. To effort it out, simply say "Alexa, open Lego Duplo Stories" to your Alexa smart speaker, and follow the voice prompts.

In a argument, Lego Grouping'southward Head of Emerging Platforms and Partnerships James Poulter said this is one of the outset Alexa skills that brings together concrete play with interactive audio content.

"Children practise not differentiate between physical and digital play. To them it is just play," Poulter said. "Bringing sound into the equation, as with Lego Duplo Stories, is just another mode for children to augment and extend their play experience. For adults, yet, we run into this as a strong opportunity to provide fresh play starter inspiration, which we know they look for. Collaborating with Amazon for an Alexa skill is hence a straight response to the input we get from parents, and we truly wait forward to receiving their feedback on this new Alexa skill."

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Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's expert on fitness and smart home products. Education yoga for nearly 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected wellness products including fitness trackers, heart rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, strength training machines, treadmills, and more than. Angela likewise tests smart abode devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, just to name a few.

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