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Make Your Own Glow-in-the-Dark Sketch Wall

Glow-in-the-dark is cool, drawing on walls is fun, and combining the two make for a super neat way to use LED pens to create some all ages fun. While checking out Craftzine.com we saw this great DIY...

Ritmo Womb Speakers Will Delight Your Unborn Child

If you're looking for the perfect way of developing the mind of your unborn child, look no further, because the Ritmo womb speakers will send sound waves directly to your baby. ...

Toddler Plays with USB Cable, Ends up in Hospital

Our wires and peripheral cables have become so commonplace that it's easy to forget that they're as dangerous to children as wall outlets are. Sadly, they're rarely "baby proofed."...

iPod Sheet Set Raises Kids Up Right

Forget Transformers or the Jonas Brothers. When it comes to over-the-top themed kids rooms, get your baby geeks started right with iPod sheets—although it won't do much for their spelling skills...

Twoddler: Because Toddlers Need to Tweet

As much as we love Twitter, when we spotted Twoddler on Wired we were a bit taken back...Twitter for toddlers? Twoddler, developed by Hasselt University in Belgium, as part of a course on mobile and...

The Best in Kids Tech
Best of 2009

For every kind of person that exists in the world, there's a different style of parenting. Some kids are allowed free reign of the computer, while others find themselves banned from cable television...

Use iMote for Kid-Friendly TV

Techies with kids struggle with remote controls. You've got to worry about storing them where they're easily accessible like the rest of us (for changing the channel from Disney Channel to Cartoon Net...

Stream: A Smarter Way for Kids to Wash Their Hands

Stream, a concept from Brazilian based Baita design, is a wall module made from Corian that was created with kids in mind. The designer sought to solve the problem of lifting her daughters to the fa...

Wedo Takes The Dangers Out of Stir-Frying For Kids

Stir-frying isn't exactly a kid-friendly method of cooking. It's hot, usually spits back at you and just doesn't seem as easy to incorporate your kids into helping with, as say, the making of banan...

"Tio" Promotes Green Living for Little Ones

The children are our future and if we don't tech them to turn lights off to conserve energy then who will? Well, this colorful kid-friendly ghost guy, Tio, can do it....

DIY Big Shot Digital Camera For Kids

It's a well documented fact that kids greatly enjoying taking things apart to see how they work. Columbia University in New York has made it their mission to create a camera that not only carries ...

Flickr Roundup: Kids & Their Home Tech

Parents are very adamant about their views about technology in the home. Some say there's no TV until a certain age (although sometimes online videos count) and likewise, there's those who keep co...

Is There 'No Tech' Time in Your House?

When it was time for home-cooked dinners in the family dining room, the TV went off and the phone—no matter how much it rang—went unanswered. But in these days, there's a thousand more dis...

Now We Feel Old!: "Things Your Kids May Never Know"

I was born in the 1980's. I'm hardly entering mid-life, let alone applying for my AARP card. But Wired has found a way to make my twenty-something years feel like a lifetime. The online magazine's tec...

A Laptop for Your Wee One: Cardboard Mac

Our son isn't even a year old, but he's already obsessed with our laptop. He finds the glowing screen and clacky keyboard irresistible and will crawl and cruise his way over to us at the first sound ...

Repurpose a Tube Sock as a Playful Wire Cozy

Perfect in a kid's bedroom, a dedicated playroom, a living room that's turned into a playroom or just hiding behind the TV of one very playful adult, this idea makes a cord wrangler out of an unexpect...

What's The Appropriate TV for a Kid's Room?

Let's be honest, kids destroy stuff often. It's nice to give Bobby the Nintendo paradise he's always wanted in his room, but chances are that 19" LCD will see it's demise at the hands of a game of Wii...

Power Hog Teaches Kids About Saving Energy

When we stumbled upon this kid-friendly gadget that took second place in this year's Greener Gadgets competition, we just knew we had to share. Designed to help teach kids a lesson about conservatio...

They're Never Too Young: A Yoshi-Themed Nursery

When it comes to raising your little ankle biters to grow up to be techies, it's never too early to start infusing them with the best that technology has to offer. Try to get your newborn hooked on ga...

LEGO Boombox and MP3 Players: Cheap and Ready For Your Kids

If you are looking for some great gadgets for your kids, look no further because LEGO has teamed up with Digital Blue to produce some LEGO themed devices. They aren't fancy, but they sure get the job ...

Netbooks For Toddlers: Good or Bad?

With the new trend towards netbooks, these subnotebooks are getting more and more affordable. This means that as time goes by, it's easier for parents to buy an extra computer for their family. How ab...

High-Tech Hopsctotch

Does anybody else share my fond memories of chalking up the sidewalk outside your house on Saturday mornings? All the neighborhood kids would get together and draw pictures and play four-square and ho...

Look! LEGO Camera: No You Can't Take it Apart!

LEGO is a favorite of ours. Most of us have played with the bricks when we were children, which is why we still love them. There are a number of things that are available in LEGOs, from computers to s...

Spongebob's Eyeballs Make a Great Gift for iPod-Toting Kid

I am about to provide you the service of being your holiday personal shopper. Buy your mom a beautiful flower arrangement. Buy your girlfriend diamonds. Buy the kid in your life (son? niece? neighbor?...