New children’s terminal: Entertain children sensibly with Touch Toy!
funworld's colourful children’s Touch Toy terminal is a genuine attention grabber for children. Behind this is a unique concept, which is also very useful educationally. The lovingly designed children’s terminal magically attracts the little ones’ attention and invites them to play. Whether in the local or alternative locations, such as shopping centres, hotels, doctor’s surgeries or banks, Touch Toy encourages the young talents with sensible games and gives parents a bit of stress relief as well as some time to themselves to run errands without interruption.
Learning through play
The Touch Toy offer encompasses eight games suitable for children, which sustainably support children’s concentration, creativity and their ability to learn. In the games Counting, Words, Drawing, Puzzle, Painting, Duo, Melody and Detective they train their basic knowledge and memory through play. The games involve them counting objects, filling in missing letters, painting, matching pairs of images, playing back sounds, drawing and finding the differences between pictures. The requirements of the games correspond to children’s developmental milestones, and there are two levels of difficulty in Counting and Words. Despite the games’ high educational content there is never a shortage of fun playing the game, as the amusing games are quite fun for children and excellent gaming experiences overall.
Touch Toy offers learning-enhancing games with high entertainment value.
“All games were developed in collaboration with child psychologists and educators and are suitable for children. They demonstrably support the child’s memory capacity and have a pronounced social aspect. They thus have an entertainment, communication and educational impact simultaneously, while offering children a unique game experience”, according to Josef Öhlinger, CEO funworld ag.
In order to keep the children’s terminal game offer interesting and up-to-date, updates can be installed via the terminal’s sophisticated online connection.
Child-suitable terminal
In addition to the entertaining games Touch Toys are distinguished by their ease of use, child-appropriate ergonomics and the sizes, which are ideally suited to children. Operating the game terminal is easy via touchscreen with buttons of appropriate sizes for children.
The terminal’s ergonomics and monitor angle are optimally coordinated for children and free from any danger areas. The terminal’s interactive user prompts were likewise designed to be suitable for children, whereby an encouraging voice guides children through the menu with praise and incentives. This is currently available in 10 languages, including German, English and French. Other languages will be available soon.
Individual Design
The standard Touch Toy comes in a seating format similar to a Punch and Judy show, and these are available in a choice of colours: red, yellow, green and blue. Moreover, there is the option to individually design the front of the terminal so that it perfectly integrates into the respective location. There is relatively little space required, limited to less than 1m2.
Hosts can even convert their own furnishings to the children’s terminal with the OEM KIT, thus achieving optimum integration of Touch Toy into the location. This solution is especially interesting for waiting areas in banks or doctor’s surgeries, where harmonic integration is of particular importance.
“In addition to the standard Punch and Judy format there is the option of adding specific branding to the front of the children’s terminal’s. Moreover the shape of the housing can even be individually designed using the OEM KIT to achieve the greatest possible flexibility and impact,” emphasises Öhlinger.
More successful without coin slots
The individual Touch Toy designs moreover permit advertising to be integrated into the terminal on request and this can be set up with or without coin slots, which opens up a whole new business segment to funworld locations. It has been shown that hosts generate very good proceeds via sale or rental of the children’s terminals, even when they are not coin operated. Particularly in the new locations in shopping centres, furniture shops or banks Touch Toy functions wonderfully as an added service and customer loyalty instrument, as parents can thereby do their shopping and go about their business without interruption.
New market opportunities
Touch Toy is already currently a very successful product in Austria and Finland, which is creating new opportunities for funworld outside of the branch. The children’s terminal, in addition to classic locations in bars or pubs, is also well suited for hotels, shopping centres, furniture shops, banks or doctor’s surgeries.
Touch Toy is well suited for alternative locations in banks, furniture shops or shopping centres.
“With Touch Toy funworld is forging a completely new path as a longstanding pioneer in the touchscreen sector, whereby we are successfully penetrating into promising business segments outside of the vending machine sector and opening up new market opportunities to locations. Around 1,000 Touch Toys are already in use in the initial markets of Austria and Finland at alternative locations with renowned customers, including the fashion house C&A, the furniture chain Lutz and Raiffeisenbank, which are attracting significant attention due to their high entertainment value and the educational content,” relates Öhlinger enthusiastically.
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