The new LeapFrog Crammer is a grade school kid's and parent's dream machine. It has flash cards, quizzes, an MP3 player and games. It is targeted for 8- to 14- year olds, but my son had no trouble using it at 7. He immediately went for the on-board game when he first received it, but ever since I connected it to the computer and downloaded some MP3 files, he loves to use it to listen to music now. This is his first MP3 player.
The Crammer has 1 GB of memory and you can download and store age appropriate flash cards and quizzes in math, science, social studies and language. It is easy to use with the four edges of the screen being navigation buttons. I ran into a little trouble loading the PC software at first. It is supposed to "automagically" load the software when you connect it through the USB cable. I had to navigate to the new mass storage drive and manually launch the setup file. After that, the software was easy and intuitive to use. Since we have three LeapFrog devices now (Tag Reading System, Crammer and Leapster2), they all appear under the same LeapFrog Connect software.
So what kind of music does my son listen to? All the songs he knows from Rayman Rabbids, Guitar Hero and Rock Band. I guess you can take the boy away from the video games, but you can't get the video games out of the boy.
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