Fisher-Price shipping Kid-Tough MP3 player and digital camera

Fisher-Price will shortly ship a “Kid-Tough” MP3 player with big buttons and a simple UI, and a digital camera with double-eyepiece for kids who find it hard to close one eye. I think the UI changes are nice, but not nearly so important as the armor — most of the kids I’ve loaned my digital cameras to cotton to the operational procedure in seconds, but bash it around mercilessly. I wonder if the MP3 player will come with DRM? It plays music from the Sony Store, which is a bad sign. Wouldn’t that be the pits? You buy your kid a digital music player and it takes over her PC with malicious software intended to control her use of it? Link

[Boing Boing]

Hmmm finnally a toy for my son that I can see getting him that may last a while. My son is always wanting to borrow my digital camera, and use my ipod. Depending on the cost, I’ll be getting one or both of these for my son.