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Xachi – iPhone App Powered Virtual Pet

by Jay Garrett on February 18, 2010

Here’s a Tamagotchi for the iPhone generation.

The oddly cute Xachi pets are controllable from your iPhone/iPod Touch.

They have animated eyes, squeakers, accelerometers for games, touch sensitivity and even robotic legs so that they can dance for you.

Apparently they get a bit gnarley if you turn them upside down – but don’t we all?

The iPhone app shows your Xachi’s Thirst, Health, and Happiness so you can keep it happy where-ever you are.

You gain Xachi food by playing games.

It should be out in the summer – visit the site for more details and sign up for email alerts :)

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Etch-A-Sketch Freestyle – Fun Without The Challenge of Curves

by Jay Garrett on November 17, 2009

etch_freestyleWere you one of those that sat for hours and painstakingly worked on drawing curved lines with your Etch-A-Sketch?

Just to prove that the kids these days get everything waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too easy there’s a new Etch-A-Sketch on the block and it goes by the trendy name – Freestyle.

Yup, this fresh, new version of the classic has taken any remote challenge out of making a decent picture on the graphic toy.

Remember using the two dials that controlled the AB and XY axis in order to guide the drawing tool around? You see I don’t. I never had one. I just used to watch the other children laughing with glee as they brandished their bright red toys…………..

Well, on this so called ‘Freestyle’ version they’ve managed to simplify it for the little angels.

Instead of having a pair of knobs to twiddle this funky version has a single trackball style effort that swivels around in a show-offish 360 degrees.

This new-age curvy nonsense can be won in exchange for $14.99 so ideal for Christmas Secret Santa’s or if you want to spoil your children.

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Spy Lazer Chase – 21st Century Tag / Tig

May 13, 2009 Click to read more →
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Here’s something else to help make me feel my age; darn it!!
Back in my day (yes we had colour television back then!) one of simplest playground games to play was tag/tig.
All you needed was a bunch of folk – no other equipment was required. If you had a tennis ball then 4 square or Punch [...]

Battery Snap Torch Great for Kids, Camping and Festivals

April 20, 2009 Click to read more →
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I love my Maglite but sometimes I’d rather take something lighter and something I’d care less about if I lost it or it got stolen.
GearDiary has just posted up these Battery Snaps which cost $5 and will light your path.
All you have to do is press the Snap onto the top of a regular 9v battery, and you’ve got a [...]

Courb C-Zen – Street Legal Buggy For 16 Year Olds!

March 11, 2009 Click to read more →

Courb’s C-Zen is, in my book, a definite step-up compared to a beat up scooter.
It’s even green!
It was spotted at the Pavillon Vert at the Geneva Motor Show and comes from the French company Courb.
C-Zen actually stands for ‘C’est Zéro Emission Nocive’, or ‘No Harmful Emissions’ and that’s achieved by it running on a 12kW [...]

Most Kids Between 7 and 15 Own at Least One Mobile Phone

February 18, 2009 Click to read more →

35% of kids own a mobile by the time they are 8 years old – this was the finding of the charity Personal Finance Education Group (pfeg).
The survey also discovered that three-quarters of all children aged seven to 15 owned “at least” one mobile.
It found that children as young as seven were offering to do chores in exchange for [...]

LeapFrog Junior Book Pal – For Lazy Parents

January 27, 2009 Click to read more →

If you’d rather have a beer or finish watching that soap opera than read your kids a bedtime story:

You should have thought about that before breeding
You need to get yourself a Tag Junior book pal

LeapFrog’s newest Tag reading system is now apparently kid-friendlier.
The Tag Junior pal is built for kids as young as two years old.
The [...]

Marks and Spencer iPod Back To School Range

August 15, 2008 Click to read more →

Saw this and though WTF!
I know kids are rocking iPods and mobiles as soon as they’ve stopped bottle-feeding but c’mon!
Teachers have a hard enough time keeping the pupils focused and, while it scares me, stab-proof hoodies and kevlar school-bags serve a purpose but Marks and Spencer have gone and released a new line of school uniforms [...]

Kids Get Phone of their own

December 11, 2007 Click to read more →

I’ve just been sent a copy of the NTT DoCoMo press release. Oh joy – they’ve designed a mobile especially for the ankle-biters.
Before you start the rant they’re aiming it at the “child in an emergency” situation to help parents part with their hard-earned and quite convincingly I might add.  Have a read of this.
In an [...]