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Cardboard Armor for Kids

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Another thing that makes me wish my child was older. I cannot wait to do things like this with Charlotte!

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A Vertical Record Player

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From the team that brought us the Gramovox comes the Floating Record Vertical Turntable. A true thing of beauty. Go back it on Kickstarter.

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Brilliant Phone Illuminates a Problem, Provides Awesome Solution

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A simple prepaid mobile phone and an app for your smartphone that forwards your calls to it. Easily go out to dinner with your wife and leave your distracting phone behind without missing calls from the babysitter. Light. $200 will get you and your wife one.

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Pebble Time Steal

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I said last week that the new Pebble watch was functional, not pretty. Well, looks like they fixed that. This looks like it was designed by a company that understood watch design.

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Pebble Time

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In the time it took me to watch their video, the campaign went from $60,000 to $260,000. It’s now at $350,000 at the posting of this message. They were the first big hit of Kickstarter and one of the first smart watches on the market. Now they are back with a color screen and new interface.

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CogniToys Builds AI Dinosaur; Skynet Rising

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It begin nearly a year ago when we entered the IBM Watson Mobile App Developer Challenge with a unique concept: a toy that could learn and grow with a child. Winners of the challenge would receive access to IBM Watson — IBM's powerful cognitive supercomputer - which is one of the elements necessary to create a truly transformational toy.

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Yes, David, Teddy has arrived. Just what we need, a dinosaur with access to IBM’s “powerful cognitive supercomputer” in every home teaching our children to submit to their no-longer-extinct overlords. Cool concept, but I will not be buying one.

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Goodnight Lad - Augmented Reality Children’s Book

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Cool concept. A children’s book that comes to life when you look at it through your phone’s camera. $20 gets you one.

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