This AI gadget turns children’ artistic concepts into printable stickers

I’ve been skeptical about lots of AI-first devices during the last couple of years – the Rabbit R1 and the Humane Pin come to thoughts – principally as a result of they promise an excessive amount of and both underdeliver or fail spectacularly. There’s quite a bit AI can do nicely, and possibly at this level what we’d like are extra singularly centered merchandise… Like this tiny system geared toward serving to children discover their creativity.

The Stickerbox from Brooklyn-based startup Hapiko turns your kid’s wildest concepts – a tiger consuming ice-cream, or a lizard driving a skateboard – into printed stickers they’ll tear off instantly and coloration in utilizing common pencils and crayons.

It makes use of a mixture of AI fashions to make sense of the prompts and generate monochrome outlined illustrations, whereas a thermal printer spits out the art work on BPA- and BPS-free paper.

That’s all there’s to it, and it is type of genius, actually. The thought got here from Hapiko co-founder Bob Whitney who not too long ago discovered himself dusting off a desktop printer at dwelling to make coloring pages primarily based on his son’s imaginative concepts.

The compact Stickerbox – a 3.75-inch (9.5 cm) dice that matches on a baby’s desk – streamlines that total course of, and places children in command of the creative output.

The firm says it is dedicated to making sure your youngster would not encounter something nasty whereas utilizing the system. To that finish, its AI solely listens for prompts for so long as the large button on prime of the Stickerbox is pressed, and would not proceed listening within the background or retailer voice knowledge.

It’s designed to filter out curse phrases from prompts, and in addition to dam inappropriate content material earlier than it even seems on the Stickerbox’s display or will get printed. Plus, the upcoming companion cellular app will enable dad and mom to overview creations that the field has beforehand printed.

Beyond getting children to spend time coloring and off screens, I admire the concept of the Stickerbox encouraging children to train their powers of creativeness; as TechCrunch’s Sarah Perez famous in her overview, the device isn’t limited to basic prompts; it handles prolonged train-of-thought concepts, so children will be as descriptive or foolish as they need.

The Stickerbox appears fairly moderately priced at US$99; that features a set of coloured pencils and three paper rolls (which works out to 180 stickers). You can buy further rolls from the corporate, at $5.99 for a pack of three.

While the output already seems to be fairly neat, I’m wondering if it might additionally print on clear sheets so children can combine their creations into current scenes on totally different surfaces. There’s additionally no option to print a earlier design, or save a ‘character’ to make use of in new ones. It can be neat to see options like these in a future over-the-air replace for the system.

Find the Stickerbox on Hapiko’s product site.

Source: Hapiko Inc.

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