The LeapPad will also auto power off when the batteries are very low. If it is not used after turning the unit ON, the LeapPad automatically turns OFF after 30 seconds. To preserve battery life, the LeapPad says "Bye bye!" and automatically turns OFF after several minutes of inactivity. There is also a music note to sing a song and hear some music. When the illustrations are touched with the pen, character dialogues as well as brief sounds and music will make himself/herself known and directed towards the player. There may be different icons to play a game The games are designed to not only enhance the enjoyment of the story, but to sharpen key skills such as letter and number recognition, following directions, logic, memory, and so on. He or she can touch the ear/speech bubble to hear the pages read out loud. If desired, he or she can also read the story to themselves, and use the pen to point at a word they are unsure of to receive help from the "offscreen narrator", who in fact is named the LeapPad Storyteller (mostly a male starting from 1999 sometimes a female). He or she can touch the green “GO” circle to start the fun, or stop the play with a stop sign. To use the LeapPad, the player touches the power button and begins play. The audio hardware includes CELP Compression and the MIDI on-chip synth called The Leap-font Wavetable Synthesis. The LeapPad features a device called "The Magical Pen" which allows stories to come to life. It is a reader which looks like a large lap-desk but is attached with a pen. Its former title was called "The Book Wizard", but it got changed to the popular name of LeapPad. Investigation and development was started in December 1997. It uses the same patented "NearTouch" technology developed for the Explore Technologies Odyssey Atlasphere. It was developed by a team from Explore Technologies, Inc. The Cat in the Hat, SpongeBob SquarePants, Jay Jay the Jet Plane, Dora the Explorer and numerous Disney/Playhouse Disney characters to name a few examples).
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Websley and more) and popular TV program and movie characters (e.g. Frog, Grandpa Frog, Casey, Della, Dan, Parker, Tim, Dot, Edison, Professor Quigley, Mr. The LeapPad Learning System is an educational device whose product is intended for use in conjunction with books and cartridges designed for it, which include the original LeapFrog characters (which their own titles have been used as the "Alphaville Learning Adventures", and uses the branded characters: Leap, Lily, Tad, Mrs.