Visually impaired hunt beeping eggs

An electronic Easter egg that beeps is being used to let blind children take part in egg hunts. What’s next, Creme Eggs with GPS built-in?

It’s the best gadget for the blind since the sonar stick we saw back in January at CES: a bleeping Easter egg to let the visually impaired take part in traditional Easter egg hunts this weekend.

80 children in Tucson, Arizona have been trying the electronic Easter egg out this week, able to join in the festivities thanks to the bleeping noises the electronic Easter egg makes. Made out of batteries, circuit boards and telephone speakers by local volunteers, they’re cheap too. Or should that be cheep? Sorry.

“It was like there were a lot of crickets chirping out here,” said one student. “It wasn’t easy to find an egg, but considering I found one, I’m happy.”

There’s only one problem of course: you can’t eat the electronic Easter egg, but the kids got to exchange them for baskets stuffed with toys and sweets so no teeth were broken, just mildly eroded by the chocolate.