The company offered for sale has developed an innovative and high tech gadget to manage the screen time of children in a responsible and educational way. It is a virtual and interactive hourglass that gives children direct responsibility over how they want to use their screen time. It is a unique technical concept that is user friendly and easy to use, which is based on the principle ‘do it yourself, learn it yourself’. The trademark as well as how the product functions and operates has been patented in Europe, the United States of America, Canada and Australia. It is a unique concept and there is no comparable product available in the (international) market. The development process has been completed and is ready to hit the market. We are looking for a (strategic) partner that is able to roll-out and further commercialise this innovative and high tech gadget on a global scale. At the moment it is produced and assembled in the Netherlands.

The product
We live in a digital world in which screens have become a more and more important part of our lives. Children nowadays spend a lot of time in front of a screen. Instead of turning off screens and routers, the creator came up with an educational solution for children with which they can learn to organise their screen time themselves and at the same time take their own responsibility in this respect. The goal, together with the corresponding application, is to facilitate clear ‘agreements’ between parents and children about the allowed daily and weekly screen time. With this new concept the parents can manage the screen time together with their children. The concept is based on three objectives/principles:

• Share responsibility;
• Create awareness of how many hours per day the child spends in front of a screen;
• Stimulate mandatory breaks.

Parents can add the agreements to the corresponding application and monitor them, while the children take responsibility over the device. Children will learn to deal with their maximum daily screen time in an educational manner as well as that it creates awareness. It has been designed in such a way that children of all ages can easily use it:

• Robust and solid design;
• Compatible with all screens;
• Bluetooth connection with the application;
• No buttons.