LeapTV is LeapFrog’s video game console for children

Video games aren’t always suitable for young kids—some decidedly so. But try explaining to a five-year-old why the Xbox is a grownup device and you’ll end up in an endless spiral of “but why?” LeapFrog’s new LeapTV aims to change that, with a gaming console built just for kids age three to eight. LeapTV offers younger kids some of the same hallmark capabilities of grown-up game consoles: the wireless controller starts in a classic two-hand layout, or flips open to a one-handed wand that works a lot like a Nintendo Wiimote that kids use as a pointer, a wand, or a sword for slashing through jungle vines (but definitely not opponents, I bet). And a TV-top camera offers Xbox Kinect-like body tracking, putting players on-screen and capturing their dance moves, arm waves, and karate chops as they play.