Friday, July 11, 2008

Useful, to a Point

Scott Hanselman is working on a new project for parents out there called Baby Smash:

As babies smash on the keyboard, colored shapes, letters and numbers appear on the screen. Baby Smash will lock out the Windows Key, as well as Ctrl-Esc and Alt-Tab so your baby can't get out of the application. Pressing ALT-F4 will exit the application and Shift-Ctrl-Alt-O brings up the options dialog.

Its written with WPF, and looks pretty cool, as well as pretty useful.  I don't have kids, but a coworker of mine just recently had his second child, and his first is 2 and pretty rambunctious from what I understand.  So I sent him a link to the program.  Here was his response:

Does he have any programs that will prevent my kid from drawing on the walls? :)

Hey... computers can't do everything you know.

#    5:25 PM by Nick | 1 Comment |