It’s an old and far too familiar tale: parent’s struggling to peel their kids away from the TV to read. Well, thanks to Google TV and a application called MeeGenius!, they might not have to anymore. MeeGenius! turns your Google TV into a book, with pictures, narration, and highlighted text. By bringing both classic and modern stories to life on the television, it promotes early reading skills such as word recognition, all while combining entertainment and education. Word is that it has its issues, but the educational possibilities that it drives at are undeniably exciting. If you’ve got early readers or even very young toddlers, you’re going to want to keep your eye on this one.

[via googletv.blogspot.com]