Way back in November, I was gifted a new HP Sprout (check it out here). It came in the mail last month, and to say I was a bit intimidated is putting it lightly. I had never seen anything like this before. However, it is so easy to use. Let me tell you a few of the fun facts...
It has three built-in cameras, a projector, 1 tb of storage (!), and a touch screen among other things! My kids are fascinated with it (another post about that later), but the touchpad is also waterproof, so I can rest easy knowing they might not be able to destroy it!
So, I decided to use it to do a little organizing in the playroom.
What I did first was open the "Create" part of the Sprout - just with the touch of an app.
Then, I placed a bunch of toys from the playroom on the touchpad. FYI - the touchpad is white. I just had a hard time capturing that with my camera - sorry!
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Once I did that, I just touched the little camera on the screen, and moved my hands away.
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Voila! A picture of all of the images was taken. And, once the toys were captured, I continued the process with more toys, until I had all of the images I needed. Here's the cool part...as soon as the image was taken, the individual toys could be manipulated in any way I wanted.
So, I made them very small, so they'd all fit on a sheet of paper.
I printed the paper and got busy making my labels.
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Then, I attached some string.
Finally, I attached each label to the corresponding bins in the playroom.
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Now, the kids can help clean up more easily. Mine can't read, so seeing a picture of what goes in each bin (balls, blocks, tiles, cars, farm stuff, stuffed animals, etc) helps make the organization of toys so much less complicated for them!
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The neat part is that each image is one of their real toys that goes in that bin, thanks to the Sprout!
I'm hoping to get a bit more creative with my Sprout for my photography, and things like invitations, thank-you notes, picture albums, etc. I also cannot wait to use it more to teach the kids different things via their apps.
Stay tuned...I'll be back in a week or so with another Sprout project!
Oh wow that is an amazing device, did you receive this for review? How awesome!
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So this is a pretty amazing piece of technology (did that statement age me a little bit?). But so cool, even more amazing is the fact that you came up with the playroom label idea. Genius...and beautiful! Slow clap your way my friend!!
ReplyDeleteAhh, I love a good organization tool. :) Looks like a fancy gadget! Enjoy.
ReplyDeleteTHAT! is super cool! I've seen play room labels before, but that one is like totally cool!
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