KANO COMBINES THE MAGIC OF HARRY POTTER AND
CODING, MAKES IT AVAILABLE IN APPLE STORES
The wand will be available at apple.com and select Apple Stores, across US, UK, Australia, New Zealand — with live
demonstrations by staff.
LONDON — November 14, 2018: Creative computing leader Kano today announced it is bringing the Harry Potter Kano Coding Kit, the first-of-its-kind interactive wand that lets you make and code magic on a screen to apple.com and select Apple Stores.
Customers visiting select Apple stores will have the opportunity to experience one of this holiday season’s hottest gifts with interactive demonstrations of the wand from December through the end of January. The kit has been included in Amazon’s Top 100 list and Toy Insider’s Top Tech 12 list. Harry Potter biggest fan site Mugglenet says “Learning to code can be really overwhelming, but this kit melts all of that away.” You will be able to pick up the wand, levitate a feather with Wingardium Leviosa and even take your first steps into coding while at the store.
Kano has also released a new series of videos demonstrating how the Harry Potter Kano Coding Kit works, in collaboration with James and Oliver Phelps, who played the Weasley Twins in the original Harry Potter movies.
See the Harry Potter Kano Coding Kit demonstrated by James and Oliver Phelps.
“Our goal is to demystify technology. Just as using computers became mainstream a generation ago, understanding and coding them is becoming so now. The rich gestural technology of our coding wand and iconic Wizarding World moments combine in the Harry Potter Kano Coding Kit.”, said Alex Klein, co-founder, and CEO of Kano.
Available for $99.99, the Harry Potter Kano Coding Kit is a wand you build yourself, then use to cast and create spell-like effects on iOS and Android tablets as well as Windows and Mac computers. The coding wand can detect over 30 Wizarding World spell gestures, enabled by machine learning technology, to make jelly beans grow, bend sound, produce and control objects and more.
The kit includes step by step challenges designed by Kano that level you up slowly through coding powers of greater and greater complexity. The content never runs out as the kit also gives you access to Kano World – the online community for coding beginners.
Kano World is filled with thousands of spells and effects developed and shared by Kano members, that you can bring into your own coding wand, cast, and remix. The platform has more than 1.5M users in 86+ countries, and more than 660,000 creations and 57 million lines of code have been generated to date.
Harry Potter Kano Coding Kit – international MSRP
US: $99.99
Canada: $129.99
United Kingdom: £99.99
Europe: €99.99
Australia: $149,99
New Zealand: $179,95
About Kano
“The creator of build it yourself tech.” -Fast Company, Top Ten Most Innovative Companies in Consumer Electronics
Kano is a new kind of computer company. Our kits and software give people the power to create technology, not just consume it. Kano’s end to end platform lets you build real devices, learn to code, and share your creations with the world.
There are more than 20 billion connected devices, that take up much of our waking hours. But less than 1% of 1% of us can understand and make them. Kano believes in a future where anyone can.
Our team represents two dozen nationalities and every discipline, and we work to demystify technology, end to end. We build out of London, Shenzhen, and Boston. We share a belief in DIY, learning by doing, storytelling, and realism.
Press Contact:
David Ortiz Lapaz, Head of Communication at Kano
Phone: +44 (0) 77445315136
