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Latest Additions - Gadgets
GPS technology has never been so wearable for kids.
Well, they finally did it. The kids found a way to have their mobile phones ring without us adults hearing them.
In true entrepreneurial fashion a 14 year-old in Orem, Utah has invented a solution that lets your laptop do double duty on long car trips by providing DVD entertainment for back seat passengers.
Engadget brings us yet another GPS kiddie-tracker, the Sazo.
I must admit, I was a little surprised to see this one on Yahoo!. A doctor in Detroit who previously conducted animal research at UCLA has started using a scanning device on human infants that was designed for small animals. The technology is called micro positron emissions tomography (PET), and the claim is that the device can help detect brain disease in infants. This may be a great advance in medicine, but I hope we are not going to find out 10 years later that this gizmo shoots out too many emissions for an infant brain to handle. After all, here is how the idea was generated, in a quote from the physician: “I said to myself, ‘A monkey is about the same size as a newborn, why don’t I stick one of these machines in the nursery?’”
Like I said, this may be the next great thing in medicine, and I’m sure a lot of disease will be detected early, and possibly dealt with in more appropriate ways, but as a parent, I’d have a whole lot of questions. Read on if you do too.
Another one in the teach-junior-to-pedal department, an industrial design team at Purdue has come up with a bike design that encourages children to learn balancing as they begin to ride bikes.
Seems like there’s some recent blog posts concerning a European toy called LikeABike. Designed as a sort of “push-bike” to teach children ages 2-6 how to ride a bike through a method ostensibly more natural than the typical “training wheels” method used here in the U.S.
For those of you who have seen the Roomba in your friends’ house or your local Sharper Image, iRobot has got a new thing to put on your holiday gift list.
This one tracks what your kid is doing in their car...the question is, do you really want to know?






