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Infant Pacifier Thermometer

Filed under: KIDS — 200702 at 8:23 am on Monday, June 16, 2008

Temperature taking is intrusive and will upset the child. So you cannot use the adult way to take the baby’s temperature. And you need a clever gadget like this to help your baby.

Thanks to the nipple shape, the problem about which you have to worry is how to get it out from your baby rather than get it in. What’s more, in order to help you realize the situation of your baby it comes with an indicator which can alert you whether your baby is in fever.

Price: $8

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You are eating

Filed under: KIDS — 200702 at 2:18 am on Saturday, June 14, 2008

Kids are in general feared of liquid IV, and some children even begin to cry as soon as they saw this liquid. Actually, most of the liquid IV is water and saline which is similar to our daily food. So, why not just make the liquid IV seems like food?

Next time you take your baby to hospital, you can tell him, “You’re eating.”

Designer: Sungwoo Park

Backyard surf

Filed under: DAILY LIFE, KIDS — 200702 at 10:20 pm on Sunday, April 20, 2008

You may not live near Golden Beach, but you can still surf at your backyard.

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Price: $49.88

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NapTV

Filed under: DESIGN, KIDS — 200702 at 9:21 pm on Tuesday, April 15, 2008

If you are looking for a TV for your kids, you should have a look at this design. Designing the screen on the underside of the stool, you can have a personal space for TV watching.

Designer: Sung-kyu Nam

A toy MP3 player for kids

Filed under: DESIGN, KIDS — 200702 at 8:14 pm on Friday, April 11, 2008

In order to make a unique MP3 player for a niche market, Sung-kyu Nam provides a design like this.

Different from those for adults and elder children, this one features two separated parts. One is a toy with a built-in RFID tag; and the other one is actually a MP3 player shaped like a hat. Just put the toy into the hat, music is start playing with a built-in speaker and you can adjust the volume by rotating the hat.

You like it?

Designer: Sung-kyu Nam

Brushing game

Filed under: IT, KIDS — 200702 at 9:51 pm on Tuesday, April 8, 2008

You still embarrassed to FORCE your kids brush their teeth? Then I bet you gotta like this brilliant invention from National Taiwan University.

Thanks to the popular interactive technology, this system can monitor the movement of the toothbrush through LEDs attached on the toothbrush and then translate this kind of movement into a video game.

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Hobby bike

Filed under: KIDS — 200702 at 9:40 pm on Tuesday, April 8, 2008

When not in use, you can fold the cycles into the wooden body. And because of the curve base, it can be used as a hobbyhorse.


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Baby jumper

Filed under: KIDS — 200702 at 9:14 pm on Monday, March 17, 2008

Different from normal baby walkers, this new design features an elastic part which could support your baby in both seated and upright positions. Therefore, your baby can have more practice.

Designer: Wilson Song

Wave bed

Filed under: KIDS — 200702 at 10:32 pm on Monday, March 10, 2008

Made from high quality bend wood, this bed inspired from Scandinavian light and environment will surely be the most attractive furniture in your kid’s bed room.

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Bag table

Filed under: DESIGN, KIDS — 200702 at 9:40 pm on Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Different from normal table, this one allows you to put stuff in the bag after sliding the top away.

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Space Warp Desktop

Filed under: GIFTS, KIDS — 200702 at 11:27 am on Tuesday, March 4, 2008

This unique toy comes with glowing balls or chrome balls perpetually rotating on a clear track. In order to choose glowing balls which are powered by a built-in UV lightb, you have to flip a switch on the back.

Video after the jump

Price: $50

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Frog pot

Filed under: KIDS — 200702 at 10:04 pm on Wednesday, February 27, 2008

You’re worried about the messy tub after your kids’ bathing? This frog pot could be a good choice for you. The back of the frog is actually a drainable scoop for collecting and rinsing toys. And the wall-mounted base is a bath products storage.

Price: $25

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Growing chair

Filed under: DESIGN, KIDS — 200702 at 5:31 am on Sunday, February 24, 2008

Watching your own baby growing gonna be the happiest thing for new parents, however, there’s still another problem of this kind of rapid growing. Not only shoes and clothes, but also furniture will be smaller and smaller day by day.

This innovative chair could fit kids of different ages from 6~8 months to 5~6 years.

Designer: Frank & Stanimira Rafaschieri

Squirt slipper

Filed under: DAILY LIFE, KIDS — 200702 at 10:49 pm on Monday, February 18, 2008

Every time we mentioned squirt gun, it will sure in the shape of a gun. Therefore, if somebody use slipper to shoot you (with water), you gonna be confused!

This Vak-Vak slipper is a weird design. It comes with a heel which could be used for water containing. And what you should do to shoot others is just squish the heel!

Designer: Muzaffer Kocer

Y water

Filed under: KIDS — 200702 at 10:43 pm on Monday, February 18, 2008

This organic vitamin drink comes with a Y-shaped bottle, so it could be reused by connecting. Kids will build the bottles into any shape.

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Titanic Slide

Filed under: KIDS — 200702 at 11:00 pm on Wednesday, February 13, 2008

This is a big gift for Titanic fans. If you wanna have a similar experience of the Titanic disaster, you gonna like this. Oh, maybe it is better for your children rather than yourself.

Price: $9,295

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Robotic dog

Filed under: GIFTS, KIDS — 200702 at 9:58 pm on Tuesday, February 5, 2008

robotic dog

This is a perfect gift for those like dog but worry about the cleanness of their house. This robotic dog from SEGA could mimic the action of a real dog and is as cute as a real one.

Video after the break

ZFlyer hover jumper

Filed under: GIFTS, KIDS — 200702 at 11:08 pm on Wednesday, January 30, 2008

ZFlyer

This unique toy comes with a unique detecting system which allows you to control it by your gesture. It could detect the distance between the object underneath and itself, based on which to determine the power. So, you could play it just like shuttlecock.

Video demonstration after the jump

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Stone pillow

Filed under: KIDS — 200702 at 12:25 am on Saturday, January 26, 2008

If you need more natural environment in your room, you gonna like this series of pillows.

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Spiral spoon

Filed under: KIDS — 200702 at 10:07 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2008

spoo

spoo

This is a new design named spoo. With the twisted design, you could grasp the feeding without having to use any twisting movements. This gonna be a pretty useful function especially when you feeding your baby.

Designer: Paul Sandip

TV Etch A Sketch

Filed under: KIDS — 200702 at 12:44 am on Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Digital tech makes everything in digital manner, including Etch-a-Sketch. Simply plug the controller into your TV, you could drawing on TV in 4 activity modes.

The best point is that the image gonna be disappear immediately by shaking the controller.

Price: $13

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Frog to prince

Filed under: GIFTS, KIDS — 200702 at 10:55 pm on Monday, January 21, 2008

This is a magic gift for kid; it could reveal the whole process how frog transformed into a handsome prince.

Just fill the container with cold water, a handsome prince gonna transformed into a prince in just minutes. Then fill the container again, the prince will have grown to mighty 10cm in height within 72 hours.

Price: £2.99

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Horizontal Baby carrier

Filed under: KIDS — 200702 at 12:51 am on Sunday, January 20, 2008

Although normal baby carrier hold your baby in vertical, it is wrong! Actually this kind of position is pretty bad for babies. This innovative iGo baby carrier could hold your baby in horizontal. On the one hand it could give a better position of your baby; on the other hand, parent could have free hands to do other things.

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R/C X-UFO toy

Filed under: GIFTS, KIDS — 200702 at 10:03 pm on Monday, January 14, 2008

UFO

Flying toys are attractive both for children and grown-ups. You will get happiness and knowledge from the flying toys. This unique X-UFO could be a good thing for you and your kid(s). It could hover in the air like a real UFO. With the built-in LEDs, it gonna be better while playing in the dark.

Next time you saw a UFO, don’t be so exciting, since you might have saw a toy like this.

Video demonstration after the jump

Price: $160

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Balloon ringer’s solution for kids

Filed under: KIDS — 200702 at 10:09 pm on Wednesday, January 2, 2008

ringer's solution

I guess nobody like to take intravenous drip, but if you get some kind of illness, you have to take it. So why not make it a little bit happier, especially for children?

This design could hang the bottle with a helium-filled balloon. So, you’re free even though you’re taking intravenous drip.

Designer: Han Chang-Geun, Park Jin-Won

Heli Head Light

Filed under: KIDS, WEIRD — 200702 at 11:53 pm on Monday, December 24, 2007

Christmas is coming, so parties are coming! If you wanna be noticed by others, you gotta need this unique gadget.

The Heli Head Light comes with two spinning arms stuffed with super-bright Red & Blue LED lights that light up and spin creating a stunning halo of light. Since the supporters are black, it just seems that the halo is hovering above your head.

More info:
* One size fits all ages
* Super Bright Red and Blue LEDs
* Create a spinning halo of light
* Hands free fun
* Batteries included!
* En71 certified & RoHS compliant

£2.49

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Q-BA-MAZE

Filed under: KIDS — 200702 at 6:23 am on Monday, December 10, 2007

Q-BA-MAZE

Q-BA-MAZE

Designed by Andrew Comfort, this new modular toy is inspired from his grand father’s wooden marble maze. Because of modular design, you could assemble it totally depending on your favor. At last, just throw a marble into it you gonna have a amazing view.

Video after the jump

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MC mallet

Filed under: KIDS — 200702 at 1:37 pm on Saturday, November 24, 2007

By cutting the wooden flat into many pieces, this mallet could be a good toy for your kids.

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R/C Vampire Bat

Filed under: KIDS — 200702 at 10:44 pm on Wednesday, November 21, 2007

This gadget is really a good thing for kids. It is not only a R/C plane. It flaps its wings to fly through the air – just like a real bat. Video after the jump

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Magnetix I-coaster

Filed under: KIDS — 200702 at 10:28 pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2007

I-coaster

The Magnetix I-coaster combines speed, high-tech design and magnetism into one package. With the magnetic track, all the balls are levitating on the track of the coaster at high speeds and they could give many magic shows to your kids.

Video after the break

Price: $128

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