If your kid starts showing an aptitude towards science and education, it’s probably a good thing to encourage. This young person could advance humanity, and potentially land a full college scholarship in the process. Here are some of the best ways to begin to develop that natural curiosity into a lovely Nobel Prize. More »
We got a peek at Amazon’s Kindle FreeTime during its press conference back in September, but now it’s making the family-friendly feature part of a subscription package available across the family of Kindle Fire devices. More than just a submenu of video like the ones offered by Netflix and Hulu Plus, it resembles the Kid’s Corner launcher in Windows Phone 8 by password locking children out of the rest of the device, but with a preselected package of content to fill it.
Available to Prime subscribers for $2.99 per month, per child or for $6.99 for a family-wide license of up to six kids (don’t have Prime? you can pick it up for $4.99/$9.99 a month), kids can browse through the selection of educational apps, games, books, movies and TV shows. It also throws in other features parents will dig, with a personalized login and bookmarks for the kids, plus the ability to set time limits on use that can be specifically tailored by category.
All of this happens with them seeing any ads or racking up a bill for video on-demand or in-app purchases, since those hooks have been removed, creating an environment endorsed by Common Sense Media. Big names like Disney, Nickelodeon, DC Comics and PBS are all on the list, with the promise of a store of content to keep the little ones distracted/learning as long as necessary. To set it up on your device, you’ll only need to create a FreeTime account if you haven’t already, and hit the free trial button.
Want to see it for yourself? The feature is available in an OTA software update rolling out over “the coming weeks” to the new Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HD 8.9, with a free month of trial access available to owners. There are more details in the press release after the break, or beyond the source link.
Source: Amazon Kindle FreeTime Unlimited
Fuhu, the company that produces acclaimed Kids tablets like the Nabi 2 ($199) is back at it and has released a $99 tablet called Nabi Jr. The tablet is for kids who may not need the speed of the Tegra 3 processor that Nabi 2 had (Nabi Jr is powered by Tegra 2). It is also smaller and features a 5-inch display (800×480), which makes it officially smaller than smartphones like the Galaxy Note 2. It may be a good idea, since young children hands are so small.
Industrial design aside, the Nabi Jr builds on the same idea than its older sibling: educate and entertain young children with a line of app built specifically for this audience. As usual parents do get some features too, and my favorite this time is a remote view of the Nabi Jr camera from a smartphone which turns the Fuhu Nabi Jr into a baby monitor. This tablet should launch this month for $99 (4GB) or $129 (16GB)
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Toshiba Excite 10 SE Android Tablet, Amazon Kindle Fire 8.9 ROM gets ported onto the Nexus S,
A genius dad invented something to make dad life easier: a flying, camera-equipped quadrocopter that could follow his kids to the school bus stop. That’s right, a personal drone for his kids. Genius, I say. Genius! More »
Happy holidays, guys: last year, 13 kids died while playing with toys, and over a quarter of a million children were sent to the ER by their own toys. The biggest lesson here? Scooters are time bombs. More »
Typically, when we talk about Kickstarter projects here on Technabob, we’re looking at a video game or some sort of gadget or accessory. But some of the most common projects on Kickstarter have nothing to do with electronics. One such project is a zombie children’s book called A Brain is For Eating.
The book isn’t exactly aimed at human children, unless those children lean towards the macabre. Illustrated by Scott Brundage, the book is described by its authors Dan and Amelia Jacobs as a children’s book written for zombies and their little undead. The idea is that the book teaches little zombies how to catch food and share with their legless brethren. The book looks quite funny, I particularly like the passage about finding a school bus that’s not moving…
A pledge of $10(USD) will get you a digital version of the book for the Kindle, iPad, and other digital readers. A pledge of $25 will get a hardcopy version of the book. If you pledge $50 or more, you’ll get a limited-edition version of the book signed by the authors and your name listed in the back including a digital copy.
The project is seeking $10,000 in funding to finish and publish the book, and with five days to go, it has so far raised nearly $6000. If you like the thought of a zombie children’s book, you need to head on over to Kickstarter now and pledge to get in on the project.
LG outs in Korea the Kidspad, a new Tablet design for kids and small Children. While LG did not release any technical details on this new Tablet, the company announced this morning in Korea that their engineers worked on the perfect digital companions for kids willing to bloom their curiosity and their mind with a set of educative tools and games and a dedicated App store that is totally Kid friendly with “parents” approved paid apps (yep you will have to pay to get some of these …
VINCI Curriculum is the software exclusively running in the VINCI Tab II and the VINCI Tab II M (photo above) , two tablets specifically designed for kids. VINCI curriculum is tailored to help children build learning capabilities. It features 43 monthly themes and topics across 3 levels of learning: The Curious; The Confident; and The Capable.
We all know that toddler are in love with user friendly touch screens and tablets, although we did not try it we can imagine that the VINCI system is certainly a great product to infuse the love of learning in kids. And now it got an award to prove it.
VINCI Curriculum is designed for children aged 1.5 to 6 years old and it covers all 6 aspects of a kid’s developing mind: Thinking Skills; Emotional & Social Skills; Language & Literacy; Math & Logical Reasoning; General Knowledge; and Science.
The VINCI Tab II is a toddler friendly tablet that was designed with kid safety in mind, it features a 7-inch display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, a 3MP camera, 1.2GHz Cortex A8 processor, 8GB of internal storage, a microSD card slot, it runs on Android.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Amazon allows Wattpad on the Kindle Fire, Splashtop Remote Desktop now available for Kindle Fire,
Kids love to draw and paint on things. Sometimes they make a mess of your walls, tables and floors, but one place that’s just fine for childhood creativity is the sidewalk – assuming they use chalk for their artwork, not spray paint. Now, kids can make drawings on the sidewalk while riding their bikes.
The Chalktrail is a nifty invention which connects securely onto the back wheel of a bicycle, lowering a fat piece of chalk over the ground, so each and every move of the bike is sketched out onto the sidewalk or street. The chalk holde actually fits bikes with wheels from 12 to 29 inches in diameter, so kids and adults can play with it.
A single piece of chalk will last for 1.5 miles of riding, and tight and repeating turns on the blacktop will result in some pretty cool Spirograph-like designs.
You can buy the Chalktrail over at Fat Brain Toys for $19.95(USD) including a single piece of non-toxic, washable chalk, or for $26.90 with a refill of 4 extra chalk pieces. In 2013, a special version of the Chalktrail is coming for scooters (as shown in the video below).
[via Icecream (Chinese)]
Whether you have streaming-savvy children, or are just a big kid yourself, Hulu has added a new section to its bulging catalogue specifically for you. Hulu Kids puts all the ad-free shows available to Plus subscribers in one place, and splits them into categories for filtering, say, only dinosaur-related programs. The section has its own website, or can now be accessed through the obvious option in the Browse menu. PS3 owners will be happy to know the Hulu Plus app has been updated, too, bringing back the Blu-Ray remote functionality that was, for some wacky reason, removed in the last update. And, what better way is there to relax after a humiliating public defeat than dropping the controller, and taking in a calming dose of SpongeBob?
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