Designed for the education market, the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC is flexible enough for students to use from the classroom to the family room. “HP listened to our needs and now is delivering a product designed by education for education,” said Chris Sieger, director of information technology for Alexandria City Public Schools in Virginia. “Teachers and technology are the two most important assets in education. HP’s announcement demonstrates that it understands what schools need from industry.”

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Intel Corporation unveiled a new design of the Intel-powered classmate PC today at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai. As announced in a keynote by Andrew Chien, Intel vice president, Corporate Technology Group and director of Intel Research, the second-generation Intel-powered classmate PC is an affordable, fully functional, rugged Internet-centric computer platform. These simple-to-use PCs have wireless capability, longer battery life, water resistant keyboards and are more shock resistant if dropped. Intel is calling this category of …

The LEGO Group, the world’s leading construction toy company, continues its legacy of inspiring and developing the builders of tomorrow by unveiling 135 new products for builders of all ages at the annual American International Toy Fair in New York City. The 2008 line is one of many ways the company will commemorate a year of milestones, including the 50th anniversary of the original LEGO(R) brick, the 30th anniversary of the LEGO minifigure, and the 10th anniversaries …

IBM is launching a free multiplayer online game (www.powerupthegame.org) challenging teenagers to help save the planet “Helios” from ecological disaster. The game is part of IBM’s TryScience initiative and will be launched at Engineer’s Week 2008 opening on February 16 in Washington, D.C. The game, which can be played alone or together, features a planet in near ecological ruin where three exciting missions for solar, wind and water power must be solved before sandstorms, floods or …

Today, Google announced the launch of “Doodle 4 Google” a competition that invites school children to design a Google logo inspired by the question, “What If” The winning student’s doodle will be displayed on the Google homepage on May 22, 2008; the champion “doodler” will also win a $10,000 college scholarship and a $25,000 technology grant for his/her school.

The “Doodle 4 Google” competition is open to K-12 students in the U.S. Participating classrooms can use accompanying lesson plans to help …

If you are still suffering with the Hello Kitty phenomenum and think that is enough, then you are wrong, there is still place for innovation in the Hello Kitty space, a 5Mpx Digital Camera.

It’s probably not the first time that you see an Hello Kitty digital Camera and it’s probably not the last time either. This one, made by Exemode, features a 5MPx sensor and a custom protection cap.
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Nokia now offers a world of virtual pet-care so your pet is never left alone again. Creebies, available through the N-Gage mobile games service, gives each player their own 3D Creebi to care for, entertain, feed and even breed!

Supplied with a trailer and some virtual cash, you can customize your new friend and home with various accessories. Soon, the 3D pet will take on its own personality and appearance based on the attention it receives. With …

NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and its eight regional subsidiaries announced today that the FOMA™ F801i, a new child-friendly 3G mobile phone loaded with special features for the safety and convenience of children, will go on sale December 20.

Building on the popular FOMA SA800i model that DoCoMo released in March 2006, the F801i offers many new or improved child-friendly features (see attachments) for security, theft/loss prevention, ease of use and more.

In an emergency, the child can quickly switch on …

Decorate your Christmas tree with these funky and good looking hanging decorations made from recycled circuit boards and recycled CDs, that would otherwise have been thrown away. The shiny sides and metal bits will catch the light, and they’ll look great on your tree, under all your (low energy) lights.

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As long as you have the A-DATA Theme Series T703 Mickey Flash Drive, you own a flash drive that is both cute and trendy. Mickey Mouse’s small ears contain secrets that cannot be revealed and its body contains a mirror so that you can check your appearance whenever you want. This is a creative design that will satisfy your desire to be on the top of the trend.

The super light and handy Mickey flash drive only weights …

While both computers serve different markets and the idea behind them is a totally different one, they seem to have some features that will help the same market. We really love the OLPC idea and how it could reaches more and more poor children in non-developed countries, but the features and price of the EEe PC make it a real portable computer for starters, maybe not for children, but for poor young boys in those countries …

Uniden gives us this Disney themed TV, while it doesn’t look to much Disney, it reminds us the child inside… Well you can be a geek AND a Disney fan at the same time, look as this cute little 20″ TV LCD HD-Ready with a resolution of 1366×768 and a brightness of 500cd/m2. Receiving the best from what uniden can give, our TV has a 2×3W speakers, support the TruSurround TX and TruBass, has 2 HDMI port …

When this game was first released in 1880 it was so hugely popular in taverns and inns that the bank of England was forced to mint more threepenny bits to keep up with demand. The game was created by messrs Nam & Nam and Co. as a novelty pastime for the masses. Outdoing the previous top public house game of Shove Ha’penny. (Polyurethane Resin, Lead, Chestnut wood, Brass, Steel, Polymer clay, Styrene, Paper, Found objects)

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The largest corporate investment in preschool care and education in rural China was announced today by mobile technology leader Nokia and leading international children’s organization, Plan. In a landmark partnership, Nokia will provide funds of over EUR 6 million (about RMB60 million) to enable Plan to dramatically increase its preschool and early childhood care and development programs throughout the country.

The Heart to Heart, Hand to Hand Project will initially be piloted in six designated impoverished counties …

The Smart Baby Ultra Violet Monitor will provide information about the UV that could harm your baby, it is designed to be attached to your child’ arm, also it will keep track of tempurature and humidity via the device’s digital display.

Now is more important to protect your children from the start and receive good information about what surround them in a fashionable and easy to understand way, while enjoy your time outside.

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Reports of three children fracturing their skulls after falling out of the popular foam Bumbo seats have prompted the Consumer Product Safety Commission to recall one million of the so-called “baby sitter” seats. The CPSC has received reports of 28 babies falling out of the seats including the three who were seriously injured. Those accidents occurred when the seats were placed on raised surfaces such as tables or countertops instead of on the floor. The CPSC notice …