Kibeam

Kibeam helps kids and families learn, play, and connect in a totally new way - through kinetic interaction with both digital media and a broad range of physical media, including existing printed books and magazines. Kibeam's platform has been called a Wii for books and a 21st century LeapPad.

When wirelessly loaded with content, Kibeam's handheld, screenless, multimodal wand will read an existing child's paper book aloud, with no change to a book already on a child's bookshelf -- or borrowed from a local library -- and engage the child with curated, multimodal activities. For literacy and language development, Kibeam's wand helps develops phonetic decoding skills, increases vocabulary, models sentence structure, immerses kids in narrative stories, and introduces early learners to expository text with embodied learning. For math and other subjects, Kibeam's platform merges movement with interaction to create new, engaging, and rewarding local and virtual experiences, enhanced with family participation.