From the toy Fair, again: VTech has launched the MobiGo, a handheld gaming system for kids 3-7 to fish, color, draw, play instruments and much more. And that’s not all: there’s also the Flip, the first “animted e-reader” that comes with a 4.3-inch color touchscreen, a built-in dictionary and a QWERTY keyboard. A kid-friendly competitor for Kindle?
via engadget
Tags: animated e-reader, e-reader for kids, Flip e-reader, MobiGo, V-Tech
Another exciting piece of news from the International Toy Fair. It seems like kids are getting their own iPad! Touch-screen technology and educational toys meet on the Fisher-Price iXLand (available for $80), that comes with six preloaded programs allowing kids to read interactive story books, practice handwriting, art and music. Additional programs will be downloaded via the built-in SD slot.
Available from October 2010… just in time for next Christmas.
via Mashable
Tags: educational toys, Fisher-Price, Fisher-Price educational toys, iPad for kids, touch-screen for kids, touch-screen technology, Toy Fair
Music-loving kids in the house? The Noteput interactive music table is the perfect gift for young musicians. Just put the notes on the table and the device will play them back (individually or as a group) thanks to a camera placed beneath the surface. Studying music is fun! The device was designed by two German students in October last year. Click past the break to see it in action
Tags: interactive music table, music learning, Noteput music table, notes, sheet music
Barbie’s got a brand new career and that is…computer engineer! Her new job is the result of an online voting campaign launched by Barbie®for the first time. The new toy, presented at the International Toy Fair in New York, will make its debut in Winter 2010. This time around the most popular doll in the world will hopefully inspire girls worldwide to get interested in computer sciences. To make her look more authentic and realistic, Barbie® designers teamed up with the Society of Women Engineers and the National Academy of Engineering. As you can see from the picture, she’s obviously equipped with the latest high tech gadgets 
Tags: Barbie, Barbie's careers, Computer Engineer Barbie, Computer Sciences, girls toys, International Toy Fair
Do your kids think that playing with a robot is as fun as building one? This Robobuilder’s Creator Kit might be the perfect gift for them! Available for $ 679, it allows kids to assemble their own robot and control it with a remote. You can program an amazing variety of actions and behaviors with 16 degrees of freedom.
Tags: build a robot, kids' robotics, Robobuilder's Creator Kit, robotics, Robots
While announcing Q1 FY10 financial results, the Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger talked about the new Apple iPad. He said Disney is exploring the possibility to create new forms of contents because the iPad has indeed a great potential; such products will also be different from the contents you usually see on an internet connected computer or on TV sets. We’ll see what happens…
Tags: Apple Tablet, Apple tablet contents, Disney, Disney Company, iPad
You may now turn your picture and your kids’ (or your pet’s!) into a Lego-ised portrait thanks to the iPhone LEGO App (available for free). Just snap a picture, then watch your face turn into a miryad of colored bricks! You can email to fellow LEGO fans or make it as a user pic on the web.
via playgrounder
Tags: free Apps, iPhone, iPhone Apps, Lego, lego bricks, LEGO iPhone app
Can you believe it’s already ten years? Today it’s the Sim franchise birthday and, according to the press release, units sold so far amounts to 125 million (consoles excluded). The revenue generated by the Sims franchise has been of $ 2.5 billion for EA: the huge success of the game is allegedly due to its ability to attract any kind of gamer.
via joystiq
Tags: Sims, the sims 2, the sims 3, the sims world adventures
Were you thinking about buying an iPad for you and your family? If you’re following the ongoing debate on the brand new device from Apple, then you’ve probably heard the rumors about Google working together with HTC on a new Chrome OS Google Tablet. We know that Apple has put a great effort on the content as much as on the device itself, so it is unlikely that the Gooogle tablet will be a direct competitor. What do you think?
via gizmodo
Tags: Apple, Apple Tablet, Chrome OS tablet, google, Google tablet, iPad, tablet
The 16-years-old Alexander Kendrick has invented a low-frequency radio that allows cave-texting. And what does that mean? It means that you can finally text while you are deep underground. The device has been tested down to 946 feet, and that’s the deepest underground communication so far in United States. It has already been planned to resize the equipment in order for it to be perfectly suitable for cave explorers and rescues. So smart!
via playgrounder
Tags: Alexander Kendrick, kids tech, kids'inventions, low-frequency radio, smart kids
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