Nickelodeon's tween-electronics machine churns on
Is it just me, or does the daunting array of consumer electronics for kids just keep getting daunting-er and daunting-er? As if it wasn't hard enough for them to choose between SpongeBob SquarePants, Dora the Explorer, and Go, Diego, Go!-themed gadgets, the options just got even broader (and we're just focusing on marketing from one network here).
An iCarly-inspired camera: what do you pink...err, think?
(Credit: Nickelodeon)Nickelodeon, Viacom Consumer Products, and Imation announced Monday that they're expanding their already choice-intensive line of youth-friendly electronics under Nickelodeon's Npower line to include Webcast gadgets inspired by iCarly.
That popular Nickelodeon show and Web site follow its characters as they host a Web show and grapple with everyday tween problems and adventures along the way (maybe one of those problems should be parsing out which gadgets to buy?).
Npower's iCarly line of electronics, which are being marketed to girls ages 9 to 14, include a $79.99 Webcam; a $24.99 iCarly action cam accessory that includes a steady cam mount, on-camera lighting, and detachable reporter-style mic for interviews that might inspire the next generation of CNET journalists; and a $39.99 iCarly 3-in-1 digicam that's also a PC, Web, and video camera.
The devices come with iCarly Digital Diary Software, which makes it easy to add photos, videos, and music, and text to a digital diary or journal. The iCarly program also lets kids upload videos and images to sites like iCarly.com.
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I hate what Nick is doing don't even call them nickolodean anymore.
They need to bring back GOOD shows like angry beavers, catdog, Rockos modern life, rugrats.
Spongebob is so annoying and overplayed. They used to keep all that mtv flavored crap on mtv.
- by zgreenwell August 20, 2008 1:56 PM PDT
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(3 Comments)iCarly is a pretty good show and if anything on Nickelodeon deserves a webcam product based on it, its that show. As far as your taste in Nick shows, most of the shows you mentioned sucked. They're also all over ten years old! I think you're just getting older and nostalgia is setting in. Tween shows are meant for kids up to about 13 and maybe up to 15, not 23-25.