Animatronic-Roommate.jpg The Animmatronic Roommate is better than any roommate than I’ve ever had. The Roommate has everything a kid needs to be a success in school. The Concise Encyclopedia Britannica, a dictionary, and a world history timeline.

The Roommate is a completely interactive toy and academic resource that uses voice-recognition technology to respond to verbal prompts from your child. Roommate even asks
your child about his or her likes and dislikes, using the responses to personalize conversations and even jokes.

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“Its database can store telephone numbers and the device connects to a phone jack, allowing it to become a child’s personal operator that dials the phone numbers of friends and family in response to verbal commands, or children can use the attached keyboard to prompt the animatronic roommate to initiate a phone call. The unit plays word, memory, and trivia games, and it can say thousands of trivia facts. With digital clock, calendar, MP3 player jack, integrated speaker, and retractable keyboard for text communication with the device.”