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C5 Childs Tracker Watch: Forget big brother, big mother is watching you
When children are little, it’s reasonably easy to keep your eye on them – you can attach them to a strap on both your wrists, strap them in a buggy, or hold on to their reins. Once they’re bigger, Take2Teq is offering a new solution in the form of the…
1stFone Mobile for 4-9 Year Olds
Gadgets don’t tend to cause a lot of controversy. Their uses and applications may be called into question sometimes, but an actually device is usually free from any condemnation or disapproval. However you get the feeling that a mobile phone aimed at four-to-nine-year-olds would cause quite a stir…and it has….
Last-minute kids’ Christmas gadgets
Is Santa still looking for a few treats for the children/teens in your family? Here are a few neat ideas that should put you in the favourite uncle/auntie category well into the New Year (which means you get first dibs on their Christmas sweet stash!) If you’re buying for children…
The “Wind in the Willows” App Review
The Wind in the Willows is one of those timeless classics that has survived generations – and now it is being brought to today’s children via an app for iPad and iPhone. One of the things we all remember about the book is the beautiful illustrations – they have been…
The BathBuoy – Save Energy in the Bath!
Anyone with young children will know how exasperating it can be to wait for the bath to fill up – and to see how much water you use each time you bath them. This is when they’re at the age when they need bathing every day – for reasons that…
Ben 10 gets his wheels with Galactic Racing
If you have a small boy aged between about 4 and 7, you’re likely to be very familiar with Ben 10. Just quickly, for the uninitiated, Ben 10 is Ben Tennyson, ‘an ordinary boy’ who finds a weird alien watch, which turns out to be Omnitrix (or the Ultramatrix as…
Kids Apps: My First JCB & Postman Pat Special Delivery Service
It’s amazing how quickly little ones work out how to use a smartphone – but you can use this to your advantage if you find yourself on a longer-than-expected car or train journey, or waiting in a long queue. So it’s great that there are so many apps out there…
Make Halloween even more fun with great spooky-wooky gadgets
Yes another Halloween has almost arrived and alongside the terrifying costumes, tins of Celebrations for trick n treaters and candle-lit pumpkins to show that we’re getting in the Halloween spirit, there is a growing emphasis on blood-curdling gadgets circulating each October. Check out some of the best Halloween gadgets for…
“Roxie’s Doors” interactive book app: Putting children in control of technology
Up until recently I have tried to discourage my two young boys from getting too engrossed in computers, believing that good old-fashioned books would be better for teaching literary skills. Just last week however, I decided to click on the ‘Magic Desktop’ icon on my laptop and it opened up…
Apps to unlock the voice of autism
Approximately 1.5% of all people have autism. The recorded prevalence of this neural development disorder has risen in recent years and reviews estimate that 1 -2 people per 1000 have autism. For the parents of children diagnosed with autism, the diagnosis is naturally a worrying and confusing time. Fortunately traditional…
Hands on with the latest Griffin App Powered Accessories gear
Griffin were kind enough to invite us down to a space-age camper van in Central London to play with their latest and greatest App Powered Accessories range and nibble on a doughnut. How could we say no? Our inner child was delighted to play with the Crayola Colour Studio HD,…
Hexabug Nanos sweep across British playgrounds
Every so often a new craze hits the playgrounds of schools across the UK that guarantees every kid owns the latest fad. In the mid-80s in was a transformer ‘robots in disguise’ craze, in the 1990s POGS, small cardboard discs stormed into playgrounds and became a huge craze, and in…