As you might have read minutes ago right here on TechCrunch, there ’ s a brand new iPad application on the market place that delivers the most effective of the Reading Rainbow show that numerous of us enjoyed so much as kids to the present generation of budding bookworms.

So it was an actual thrill to have LeVar Burton, the tremendously favored movie and television actor and director that was additionally — of course — the host of the long-running Checking out Rainbow show on PBS swing by TechCrunch TELEVISION to provide us the first-hand pitch on the app that he helped to develop.

Watch the video presentation above to obtain the complete review on why digital apps are the brand-new frontier for projects like Reading Rainbow, keeping a book-like feel in a high-tech machine like the iPad, precisely how he first linked with his co-founder Mark Wolfe, how being an tech business owner contrasts to a successful career in enjoyment, and a hands-on demo from Burton himself of the brand new Reviewing Rainbow application.

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