Surry, NC - A new boom is hitting the smartphone app market, apps dedicated to babies and toddlers, and a Winston-Salem company is thriving in this niche.
Eggroll Games, co-founded by Blake Leftwich, introduced their first app, "Jungle Jam," in October, and Leftwich told News 2's Patrick Phillippi, "Everywhere you see kids with iPhones or smartphones in their hands. We are trying to make games for babies and toddlers that have no complicated ads or menus."
Leftwich says when babies play games, they are learning a lot more than just how to play a game, "It's introducing them to technology in a positive way, they are playing games but they aren't necessarily realizing they are learning how to use the device and incorporate it into their life."
Eggroll Games has released two games so far, Jungle Jam and Christmas Jam, and Leftwich says his goal is not just to entertain children, it's to help prepare them for the new frontiers of technology.
"They can be great educational tools for people of any age," says Leftwich, "It's good to let your kids be exposed to technology. There are opportunities to get a jumpstart on their education."
Education will utilize new technology more and more in the future, and over the next ten years, textbooks could all become digital, according to Leftwich. "It may become the norm that we are carrying around tablets instead of textbooks. It looks like they are taking textbooks to the next level. It's way more than just games."
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