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Upper Story’s second board game uses a gorgeous array of mechanical gadgets to give kids a physical, visual, fun way to understand electronics – and to give parents the feeling their young genius might be able to get them into a better nursing home.Con… Continue reading Review: Spintronics uses mesmerizing mechanics to teach electronics
It is a classic rite of passage for nerdy kids to write secret messages using lemon juice. If you somehow missed that, you can’t see the writing until you heat …read more Continue reading Kitchen Steganography with Turmeric
We see a lot of clocks, and many of the better ones have some 3D printed elements to them. But [Carl Sabanski] shows us his kits for making sundials for …read more Continue reading Sundial Collection is 2D Printed
Bugatti blew the Pebble Beach crowd away this summer with the all-new 1,600-hp W16 Mistral, an ostentatious swan song for its W16 engine. At the same time it debuted the car publicly, it made billionaire outsiders the world over extremely jealous by re… Continue reading For the adolescent who has it all: Bugatti rolls out Mistral kiddy car
Minnesota company Upper Story has sent us its Turing Tumble, a fascinating educational toy that quietly tricks kids into inventing binary logic computers using nothing more than tiny marbles dropping through a series of clicky-clacky plastic pieces.Con… Continue reading Review: Turing Tumble lets kids build complex marble-powered computers
Back in 2020, designer Yuri Suzuki teamed up with Japan’s Gakken to launch a dinky little box that allowed young music-makers to cut a vinyl disc in a matter of minutes and play it back through the same device. Now Suzuki has partnered with Sweden’s Te… Continue reading Teenage Engineering gets in a lo-fi groove with the PO-80 Record Factory
Scientists have criticized new research claiming excessive smartphone use can be linked to early puberty onset. The research is unpublished, yet to be peer-reviewed, and was promoted through a press release packed with wild speculation, offering a perf… Continue reading No, a study did not find screen time causes early onset puberty
Back in 2018 we brought news of a feature-rich synthesizer for kids of all ages called the Blipblox. With NAMM 2022 just around the corner, Playtime Engineering has added two new fun-packed music makers to its lineup in the shape of the Blipblox SK2 an… Continue reading Kid-friendly synth and groovestation help make music creation child’s play
Swedish two-wheeled electric mobility outfit Cake has added three new models to its lineup, all of which are aimed at younger riders. The Kids Evolution program features the Ready balance bike, the Steady mountain bike and the Go off-road electric moto… Continue reading E-moto maker Cake launches 3-step program to get future riders rolling
The greatest gift I can give my kids is a love of technology. I mean after all the usual Maslow’s hierarchy of needs stuff, of course, the thing that I (and many of my readers) can instil in our kids is a deep passion for this life-altering and