Now your child can learn all about the world around them thanks to the Always Current Talking Globe. Just hook it up your PC and it instantly updates your globe with facts from all the countries in the world.

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I think this is a brilliant toy. It’s so educational but your child will have so much fun with it they won’t even realize their learning. This talking globe can help with school reports, learning geography and just generally making a worldlier child. Kids are curious by nature so they’ll love learning about different languages, cultures and history facts that are always up to date. Heck, most of us adults can probably learn a thing or two from this globe. The perfect Christmas gift for school aged kids, this talking globe will give them a boost in social studies class like nothing else.

“This talking globe always stays current because it connects to a PC and allows you to download weekly updates about nation states, governments, political boundaries, culture, and more. Thirty learning activities with facts about countries geography, currency, political leaders, history, language, and population are narrated in a clear digital voice. Once a category is selected on the control panel, users place the stylus on a country to listen to up-to-date global information, or they can compare the currency, population, and travel times of two countries by moving the stylus between the two nations. Young geographers test their knowledge in “Find” mode; the globe asks up to four players to find countries, capitals, and cities, and users race against the clock to locate the correct locations with the stylus.”

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