“Smart Lamps” Are the Latest Educational Fad

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From wondery on David Brown and this is business Wars daily. On this Wednesday, June 9th, the Chinese tech company bytedance is perhaps best known for making a little app. You may have heard of it before it's called Tik-Tok. But last fall the company rolled out a new piece of tech that was a smashing success with Chinese parents. In fact, bytedance sold 10000 units in the first month after it was released. So what is this magical piece of innovation? You ask it's a well, it's a desk lamp. But of course, this is not just any desk lamp by dances, so-called smart homework. Lamp is equipped with. Yes, a really nice light bulb and two cameras, a smartphone size screen, and an artificial intelligence platform parents can monitor their kids study sessions through the cameras and kids can use the AI tools to get help pronouncing tough words and answering questions and all

Dwelling homework land, right? Not quite. That's because even though parents are buying the device in, droves, it's not as popular with anyone concerned about surveillance according to the Wall Street Journal, just Who besides parents are watching children study. Well, that's one question critics have about the smart home work, lamp others complained, that the device lets kids upload videos of themselves to the internet. My dance says all video uploads require parental supervision besides complaints about its technical abilities. Some critics also worry that kids will become over reliant on technology. The answers, their homework questions but despite privacy concerns the lamps popularity is only exploded. Why? Well, one mother Wu-Tang put it simply she told the Wall Street Journal that Chinese parents feel immense social pressure when it comes to their kids education and his parents get richer, they look for more ways to enhance their children's learning opportunities, by the way, Miss Tong bought the

For her three-year-old.

Singaporean Professor Sun Sun Lim said parenting Asia, 10 to see. Parental oversight is a good thing and if there's one thing the lamp does, well, it gives parents that oversight. There's even upgraded version of lamp it, alerts parents of kids, slash while doing homework that one sold out last month. The success of bite, dances lamp and set other Chinese tech companies into a frenzy, according to news site, except China, shenzhen-based tencent Holdings announced earlier this year that, they too were building a smart home. Work lamp that would have many of the same features as by cantus. But as the Wall Street Journal reported, any Chinese company building, this kind of device has to keep an eye peeled for Regulators who are cracking down on any educational tool that widens the gap between wealthier and poor families? Which you could argue this $120. Lamp, does the hear me out? I know the term lamp parent doesn't have quite the same ring is helicopter parenting.

But as this new industry keeps growing, we may want to consider a little Rebrand.

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