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Toy Council report: Classic playthings with modern spin popular this season

Source: Ottawa Citizen, Nov 13 2012, 7:36am CST

It’s hard to predict exactly what will make a toy that year’s must-have. Who would have guessed Cabbage Patch Kids, Tickle-Me-Elmo and Pokemon would have created the retail pandemonium they did? We won’t pretend t ...

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36 Entertaining Apps That Are Actually Educational

Source: Edudemic  |   May 22 2013, 12:05pm CDT

Some of these apps are aimed at being both fun and educational, others are geared specifically at teachers, and many just happen to have classroom applicability even though that wasn’t necessarily their design. From productivity to lesson plans to games ...

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Need to Know Everything About Beethoven's 9th Symphony? There's an App for That

Source: AlanCross.ca  |   May 22 2013, 10:45am CDT

Beethoven's 9th Symphony (free plus in-app purchases) is an epic iPad app that lets you explore one of the greatest symphonies ever written in a unique, compelling way. Classical music lovers will definitely w ...

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27 weeks ago


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"It also has handlebars so there’s added safety"


Source: Ottawa Citizen

 
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How Toys Are Preparing Kids For A Future With Robotic Friends

Source: Popular Science  |   May 22 2013, 9:37am CDT

For Christmas in 1993, my father gave me a My Magic Diary, a children’s version of Casio’s digital organizer. From that point on, I always had some iteration of that device—whether a PalmPilot or the iPhone 5 I carry today. Like most others my a ...

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Daily iPhone App: Las Vegas! brings Ravensburger's dice game to the iPad

Source: The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)  |   May 22 2013, 8:44am CDT

Las Vegas! is a popular dice game that Ravensburger put together last year. It's not exactly the most complicated board game on the block (you roll dice, and then can place them into certain numbered slots that represent stakes in money-making casin ...

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15 hours ago

New iPad App Increases Bushfire Resiliency

Source: Design Build   |   May 22 2013, 2:06am CDT

Developed for the Alpine Shire Council in Victoria’s northeast, a new iPad application will assist in building safer, more fire-resilient homes. Planning Minister Matthew Guy launched the new app, which uses cloud technology to de ...

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1 day ago

Apps experts take paperwork out of meetings

Source: Expatica  |   May 21 2013, 8:12am CDT

Last year 24-year-old civil engineers and computer scientists Bram Vandewalle and Sander Goossens were full-time university students. Today they run their own software company Endare. Their first apps, a co ...

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Cat-App Fever: 3 Ways to Turn Your iPad Into a Cat Toy

Source: Wired  |   May 21 2013, 5:30am CDT

You give so much to your cats, it’s time they gave back — in the form of vaguely expressionist digital paintings. Pick a color palette, with choices ranging from muted grays to garish neon, and set your tablet down in fro ...

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2 days ago

U.S.A.F. switch to iPads may save $50M in fuel costs alone

Source: The Loop  |   May 20 2013, 8:51am CDT

Summary: Now that the U.S. government and military have approved iPhones and iPads for secure use, the U.S. Air Force plans on spending a little to save a lot in the long-run. The biggest threat to the U.S. Air For ...

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Interactive storytelling apps for kids

Source: News 14 Charlotte  |   May 20 2013, 8:39am CDT

The Elmo the Musical app allows kids to create their own stories that can then be read back to them. You chose which Elmo you want to use and based on his outfit, the scene sets itself. So, if you choose the clown Elmo, then po ...

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