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DIY Big Shot Digital Camera For Kids

It's a well documented fact that kids greatly enjoying taking things apart to see how they work. Columbia University in New York has made it their mission to create a camera that not only carries ...

Wii Baby & Me "Game": Creepy Or Cool?

The Wii has been become the go-to gaming system in many households and for good reason. They make a ton of games geared for kids, plus it doesn't look half bad sitting out in the open. But when we ...

Swinxs: Is It Catching On?

It's been just over a year since we mentioned the wireless and rechargeable gaming console — Swinxs. It boasts free downloadable games, ability to expand up to 10 players, a water-resistant s...

The Marshmallow Test: Oh, the Temptation

Can you pass The Marshmallow Test? The willpower of several children was put to the test in this delightful short film that's been making the rounds on Vimeo. See video, below the jump... ...

Rollip: How to Create Polaroid-style from Your Photos

If you love vintage and Polaroid photos, but live life with a digital camera, Rollip offers a way for you to turn any image into the look you want. With the traditional Polaroid style or a minimal wh...

Roundup: Modern Day Pac-Man

Long live Pac-Man! If this game of old still inspires designers and crafters everywhere, we're guessing your kids can be inspired too. From cupcakes to accessories, toys to decals, Pac-Man, Pinky an...

Kid-Friendly Gadget: Muji CD Player

We realize that in some circles CDs are totally Yesterday.com, but around our house we have a couple dozen kids' discs that are in regular rotation. Ever since we spotted the Muji wall-mounted CD play...

Scripted Baby Rocker

For the first few months of his life our son just wanted to be bounced in his bouncy chair. It was a great workout for our calves and we found ourselves phantom bouncing him whenever we sat down fo...

Breakfast Can Wait. The Day’s First Stop Is Online.
The New York Times

Our first stop in the morning after scooping our son out of his crib is the bathroom, but many parents and kids (apparently with bladders of steel) are diving for their smartphone or laptop to see w...

LEGO Club

Join the club -- the LEGO Club, that is. My son is a LEGO fanatic and we were both pleasantly surprised when we visited the LEGO Web site and discovered the LEGO club....

Time-Lapse Calendar: A Year Of Lex

We were looking through some photos from our sons' first few weeks the other day and couldn't believe how much he's grown and changed the past year. So we were especially tickled to come across thi...

Challenge: Photography With Your Kids

We've talked before about how to take great pictures of kids and reviewed a few cameras even, but with this month's travel theme coming to a close, we'd like to throw in one more outing and challenge...

Board Game Movie Trend

What's up with this odd, new trend of turning board games into movies? I mean, we really loved playing Candyland when we were kids, and totally plan on having a Candyland themed birthday party for ou...

Jitterbug: Music for Hip Kids

We don't think you need convincing that there is great kids' music out there and much of it springs from the minds, mouths, guitars, drums and triangles of independent musicians. Jitterbug is a web...

Finally! A Kid Life Proof Camera

We used to think we were pretty good at testing a product's duarbility until we saw what the folks over at Olympus put their new Stylus Tough cameras through (a daycare full of kids). We'd like to i...

Wee See: A Visual Design Experience

Wee See is launching their new website today and although we had intended to hop over to check things out, we hadn't planned on spending 20+ minutes watching their ridiculously soothing and playful v...

Digital Spring Cleaning

We normally like to think we're pretty organized when it comes to our digital files, but looking back at the photos from our son's (almost) first year of life - they're a mess! We have two major pr...

Kid-Friendly Operating Systems

We'll be the first to admit that this will not be an information-packed post, but more along the lines of "who knew?" and "who can tell us more?" We saw a post recently on Boing Boing titled "Great...

Look! Cardboard Mac

Our son isn't even a year old, but he's already obsessed with our laptop. He finds the glowing screen and clacky keyboard irresistible and will crawl and cruise his way over to us at the first soun...

Kickbee Twittering Pregnancy Belt

In the second half of our pregnancy the nurse at our doctor's office always asked if the baby was kicking a lot and at first we thought she was just being friendly. Then we realized she was asking ...

Saving Space: Kids' Stuff on Hulu

Years ago we put all of our CDs into binders and saved ourselves a ton of storage space. Now we're eying our growing DVD collection and thinking to do the same. But first, we're doing a little sel...

Hot or Not? Combi iPod Bouncer

There's no doubt that there are more attractive bouncer options these days, but if you desire one with a musical option you may have to tolerate sounds akin to a merry-go-round all day. The Combi i...

Animoto

We've really been enjoying creating video slideshows of our little one on Animoto. Everyone we send them to thinks we're working really hard at creating them, but Animoto makes it so simple. If yo...

Peekaboo Barn

You know those instances when you want to keep your little one entertained for just a bit, perhaps while you are at the bank, in line at the store, doctor’s waiting room – only a few minutes would...

Social Networking for Babies: Twittering From the Cradle

(Photo by Orrie King for the Times) Get in line for computer time - your babies are busy chatting up the interwebs. Does your baby Twitter, keep a Kidmondo journal or have a Totspot page? If so, ...

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