When we were kids, we thought that those little toy cars that you pulled back to go flying ahead, were cutting edge. Nowadays, toy cars have come so sophisticated that kids can draw their own racetrack and the toy car will follow along its path. Doodle Track comes with Doodle Track Cars, and a marker. All you have to do is draw a path for the car and the race car will follow it automatically. That is not bad at all for $14.99 at ThinkGeek.
Forget regular ebooks, Dr. Seuss has made his way onto the iPhone in the form of several apps. For just $0.99 you can read The Cat in the Hat, which comes complete with full pages of the book with pictures. Kids can read it to themselves, or have the app read it aloud to them. The app also makes words zoom up and be spoken when pictures are touched. The iPhone apps available include Dr. Seuss’s ABC and How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
Hi-Tec Art has developed a way to use LEDs in your own art, without having to use a soldering iron. Just take the LED and stick it anywhere on their rubber mat and the LEDS will light up! You can create your own art, signs, pictures, maps, logos, and even use it to decorate clothing. There are even chess and checker games with LEDs fixed inside each piece so that they each light up. But one of Hi-Tec Art’s most coolest products is the Cube, …
Baby Bidou is an MP3 player and recorder designed especially for infants and toddlers. Instead of using headphones that can potentially harm a little one’s sensitive ears, the bear shaped MP3 player features a built-in speaker. The MP3 player is lightweight, easily hangs on the side of a crib, and it is made from safe, non-toxic plastic and it’s also shock resistant. Parents can set control of the volume limit on the device, and it has a fade feature that allows the music to slowly …
Ekomini Interactive Moneybox is a new high tech piggy bank that connects to your computer to scan and count money as it’s deposited. This cool toy helps kids learn about the fundamentals of spending, saving, sharing, and investing in a fun and interactive way. Using Ekomink, Kids can play at Ekominiville, an educational web-based savings platform where kids can play games, track their savings and learn how to earn, set goals, spend, share and invest.
The new Spy Net Secret Mission Video Watch from Jakks Pacific manages to pack in a hidden video camera and audio system with onboard memory so that kids can record and store over 20 minutes of video, over 4 hours audio evidence or even 2000+ still photos…all displayable on a built-in, full color video screen. Young secret agents can upload their files via the included USB connection to SpyNetHQ.com to analyze their evidence with the lie detector software, video and audio analysis, secret code reader, …
Looking for a fun a creative project to do with your kids, especially if you happen to have a couple of useless or dead gadgets laying around your home. “62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer” by Randy Sarafan. The book features 62 innovative, unique and fun projects to make with everything from an old computer monitor to digital cameras, cell phones, CDs, hard drives and iPods. I’m sure you have a couple of these things laying around…There are also fashion focused projects to …
For those not familiar with the PeeWee PC, it is a computer designed specifically for kids – an educational and safe computer that allows your kids freedom to use the computer securely without having to watch them every minute. But if you don’t have the PeeWee PC, but really would like to have all the benefits of it – then the PeeWee Kit is perfect. The PeeWee Kit turns any computer into an age-appropriate PeeWee PC for children. A great kiddie computer bundle, the PeeWee …
The amount of iPhone apps for kids keeps growing and growing. Aside from fun games designed for kids, there are a lot of educational apps coming out too, giving parents another reason to justify the purchase of an iPod Touch or iPhone for their child. Learning Colors with Vegetables is one such app, that is based on Elizabeth Gordon’s “Mother Earth’s Children” book. Learning Colors with Vegetables combines illustrations with poems as a fun method of teaching children about colors. The Learning Colors with Vegetables …
Barbie’s 125th and 126th career announcements made a big splash this month, when it was announced that Barbie’s latest careers included a news anchor and a computer engineer. But if you were wondering what Barbie’s first 124 careers were, here is the complete list.
If you’re a Twilight fan, than you generally can’t get enough of it, so you’re sure to love Scene It? Twilight for Wii. Scene It? Twilight for Wii is the ultimate test for hardcore Twilight fans. The game tests your knowledge of Twilight trivia by featuring challenging puzzles, more than 500 multiple choice questions, as well as audio and video clips. Scene It? Twilight is available for Wii for $27.99 and there is also a version available on DVD and on Nintendo DS.