Hasta La Gadget!

We don’t write often about toys for actual kids (more like big kids), but this camera that debuted today at the Tokyo Toy Show is actually made for the age 3+ user in mind.

Rather than trying to use technology to help toddlers take the perfect shot, the First Digital Camera from Takara Tomy simplifies and uses a photo-sized blank space for budding photogs to frame their scenes. It’s easily gripped, durable, and much more intuitive that other cameras for tots we’ve seen.

While simple, the camera has a variety of kid-friendly features from a “talking” mode (with character Anpanman of course) and a self timer. It’s 3 megapixels and can hold 99 shots, plenty of space for documenting one’s young life.

The camera won awards this year at the show for design. Somehow I get the feeling that the majority of shots will be of food and pets, which will help Japanese kids become perfect bloggers.