Fisher-Price Easy Link Internet Launch Pad

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The Internet can be a nightmare for parents — especially for parents with small children. Making the Internet a healthy, appropriate, and fun place for pre-schoolers, the Fisher-Price Easy Link Internet Launch Pad helps connect kids directly to the official Web sites of their favorite characters. Designed for children ages three and up, this launch pad is easy to use and safe for your kids — and the family computer!

The launch pad lets you keep your child from visiting inappropriate and unsafe sites.

Kids just plug in a smart key to automatically launch the games and activities.

Familiar Friends
The Easy Link Launch Pad includes three popular child-safe and durable plastic figures — Elmo from Sesame Street, two dinosaurs from The Wiggles, and a Fisher-Price dog. Each character works as a direct key to its own Web site. When Elmo is plugged into the launch pad, children are immediately transported to the games section of SesameStreet.com. Eight other familiar Easy Link character smart keys are available for purchase separately.

Peace of Mind
Because the Fisher-Price Easy Link Internet Launch Pad blocks access to other Internet sites, links, and pop-ups, kids can connect to these interactive Web sites all by themselves, without you having to worry that they’re visiting other innappropriate or unsafe sites. The only way for your child to navigate to another Web site is by inserting a different Easy Link character. To get back to normal computer use, you simply input a password and the the Easy Link program turns off. Parents can also rest assured that their computer is secure, as the launch pad also blocks access to your desktop and hard drive.

Super Simple
Kids easily learn to play games on their favorite Web sites using the computer’s mouse and arrow keys on the launch pad. Setting up the Easy Link system is easy. Simply connect the launch pad to the computer’s USB port and install the software from the included CD-ROM. Not compatible with Mac computers, the Easy Link Internet Launch Pad requires Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, or Vista; a 750 MHz processor; a USB 1.1 port, 128 MB of RAM, and an Internet connection.

What’s in the Box
Easy Link Internet Launch Pad, CD-ROM software, USB cable, and three character smart keys.

From the Manufacturer
The Easy Link Internet Launch pad makes it easy for kids to visit preschool appropriate websites to play online games! It connects easily to your computer via USB and when kids plug a character figure into the Easy Link Internet Launch pad, they are taken directly to that character’s website (i.e. Plug in the Elmo figure and kids are taken directly to the games section of sesamestreet.com). Once a character is plugged in, kids are only allowed to visit pages on that website until they plug in a different character, keeping them away from unsafe websites and from getting into your computer’s files. Kids play the online games on the different websites by using your computer’s current mouse and the arrow keys on the Easy-Link Internet Launch pad. 3 easy link figures included are Elmo, Wiggles, and Fisher-Price. (8 additional Easy Link figures sold separately) When parents want to go back to normal computer use, they can enter a pass code to turn the Easy Link off.

Customer Reviews

Simply amazing
Fisher-price has themselves a winner with this product!

My 3 year old daughter can now surf the internet without needing any assistance. If you have a young kid you understand how important it is at their age to “do it myself”. It couldn’t be an easier concept: insert a character key into the slot and your computer brings up the specific website. When she gets bored with one, in goes another character key and on to the next site. The best part is that once a “key” is inserted, the browser is locked to those sites. My daughter will not accidentally hit any buttons and get explicit content.

She is learning lots of basic computer skills while having a fantastic time. The websites have lots of educational games, stories, and activities. Now I just hope that they continue to put out more smart keys (like Curious George), but it seems that there are no shortage of them right now. This is easily one of her favorite toys, and nothing makes a parent feel better then watching their kid have fun while learning. Just don’t tell her she’s learning!

I can’t recommend this enough to anyone with children 3 and up.

Thrilled!
I am thrilled with this product! My daughter is 3-years old, and she often spends time with me at work as the day comes to an end, and I need something to keep her occupied for the last hour or so. This “toy” is perfect! I set her up on my co-worker’s computer, and she can’t access anything on the hard drive! She simply moves the character’s website she wants to visit to the middle position on the control panel, and right away, she’s directed to the site! She just clicks away with the mouse and goes everywhere she wants to. She sees me check my email often, so she types away on the keyboard as well, and it doesn’t effect the webpage that’s up, or any other information on the computer. We simply loaded the software, plugged in the USB, and we were up and running! Thank you for a wonderful product!

We love this toy!
I bought the FP Easy Link for my 3yo this Christmas. At that time, he had no idea how to use a mouse. Now, just one month later, he’s a pro. He is learning how to spell, how to count/add, how to navigate the web (safely, I might add) and how computers can help us. I can’t say enough about how nicely this particular toy has fit into our lives. I’d much rather have him playing with this than watching TV (even kid-friendly TV like PBS). He’s interacting with the characters that he knows and loves and learning at the same time. What more could parents want?