Even the classics need to keep up with the times. Barbie does her own bit of dabbling in the Internet age with the Barbie Designable Hair Extension Pack With Doll, letting kids become professional hair designers.

Lately, there’s been a hearty helping of educational and entertainment apps directed towards the young ones for the iPad and iPad 2, which is great. Most of them are great ways to combine early learning and childhood fun, and provide a safe way for kids to get used to technology. The downside, of course, is that kids tend to not have much regard for the fragility of things, the iPad certainly included.

At first look, the fact that this game even works inspires some incredulity. What’s promised by the Mindflex Duel is a battle of wills – the clean looking, white and blue board game features two headsets that claim to use EEG technology to scan brainwaves. Each player’s ball rises or sinks on the board according to their respective concentration levels. So, there it is. A game where you actually use your mind, and nothing else, to compete.

In an effort to fuse the digital world and the real world, Disney has unveiled its new AppMATes line, a set of what Disney calls ‘Mobile Application Toys.’ The toys themselves are physical, real toy cars from Pixar’s Cars 2, but that’s only half the fun. Once you have the cars, you can download the free Cars 2 AppMates App on your iPad, which opens up a whole host of new activities for your kids’ new toys.

Usually, laptops designed for kids suffer from being lackluster in quality, functionality, or processing power. That stops with the Toshiba Satellite L735D, a notebook designed for kids that houses quality computing and a safe, parent-moderated experience in one machine. Best of all, it comes at a very affordable price right in time for the holiday season.

For all the kids who are actually glad school is back, because it means more Glee, you can pick up the Glee Jammin’ Journal, a celebration of all things about the hit television show. It’s packed with photos and sound clips from the multiple seasons of the show, and plays the show’s theme song every time you open it.

But don’t worry, that’s a good thing! The crayon is actually the iColor Stylus, which will work with all iOS devices, letting your kids (or you) draw all over the touch screen. The stylus looks just like a crayon, and the results on screen mimic the crayon effect pretty well.

There’s a special kind of joy that comes with sharing the childhoods of the past with the kids of today. Thanks to Hammacher Schlemmer, a catalog retailer antiquated in its own right, you can introduce your kids to a ’50s classic. If you’ve got a lot of spare change lying around, that is.

Me to You My Place has been around for a little while as a popular social game on Facebook. Usually, kids and social gaming would run the risk of being a bad combination. It’s tough to gauge who or what kids will run into when you let them run wild on something as public as Facebook. Fortunately, Me to You My Place is well regulated and maintained, and comes packed with parental controls to help keep your kids safe online.

Neon signs and kids seem like a good match, except for the whole neon gas part. Kids tend to like shiny, flashy things, so you know they’re going to love shiny, flashy pictures of their favorite movies. With Meon, you get the neon effect without the danger or price of actual neon.