A New App Tells A Neverending Bedtime Story, Of A Kid’s Own Design

InfiniScroll, populated by a winding parade of creatures with tails and tales, is an upgrade for child and parent. A favorite tale of children’s book publishers and parenting blogs is set in a land not so far away, where the evil e-reader is a slayer of the bedtime story. In another version of the telling, however, joining forces with the wise and age-old printed book is a powerful piece of hardware capable of storing an infinitely appealing range of adventures to be guided by a child’s imagination--perhaps more interactive than a sleep-ridden invention conjured by an overworked parent at the end of the day. The market is now, of course, flush with digital storytelling inventions. But few deliver quite like the InfiniScroll, a new app with a seemingly endless number of illustrations spliced to create a story and flashing pictures that unravel as a child scrolls up and down the iPad screen.Read Full Story     Continue reading at 'Fast Company'

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