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A few weeks ago, I wrote about iMinds, 8-minute topical audio books designed to fill the mundane moments in our lives with learning instead of boredom. Launched yesterday, iMinds has a new product designed for kids, called iMindsJNR.
While the concept is roughly the same with [...]
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By all creditable accounts, the environment is a mess. With problems ranging from ozone depletion to overstuffed landfills and plastic-bottle sargassos drifting the oceans, we all need to do more to help. But where can we start? Nancy Conner, author of Living Green: The Missing' [...]
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Congratulations to Angela, who won the drawing for a Fuji Instax Camera! Angela wrote:
I am part of a generation that hardly know about Polaroid cameras. When I was little, there were the Polaroid iZone cameras which were basically the coolest things ever. Now that [...]
With the recent furor around the balloon boy hoax fresh in the minds of the public, tonight the Discovery Channel is dusting off a classic episode of Mythbusters which tested how many helium-filled balloons it would take to lift a four-year-old child.
It’s not impossible. A lawn chair balloonist did [...]
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It’s the stuff of online myth: a fake product, created as part of an elaborate April Fool’s Day joke, gets such an overwhelming response from the store’s fans that they realize there’s only one thing to do - actually make [...]
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They finally figured out how to stop the Millennium Falcon. Well, the LEGO version, anyway! This $500, 5,000-element, 33″ model is the biggest LEGO set ever made. Completely minifig scale, it comes with minifigures of Han, Chewie, Obi-Wan, Luke and Leia, and offers fun moving parts [...]
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A little birdie pointed our attention to a great graphic showing off the most popular toys of the last 50 years, including geek favorites like the Etch-a-Sketch and Mr. Stay-Puft. Check out the whole list at the Permuto blog, and leave [...]
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Yes, we realize that we missed Halloween by a few days. But what were we gonna do? I mean, we promised you two episodes of appropriately creepy HipTrax music, and we plan to deliver. Even if [...]
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