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• Retro Electronic Toys

  Sometimes I think I might be psychic. For example, right now, you are reading this blog post. And you think the joke I just made wasn't all that funny. See what I mean? Anyway, I was talking to my son the other day about the handheld electronics I used to play with. Then I'm online, reading my email, and in my gmail toolbar I see the title of a Wired.com article: "Forgotten Electronic Games." Hmmm. Maybe Google is reading my brain waves. Wouldn't put it past them. But enough about my psychic ability. (I know that you don't want to hear any more about it. You see? You see what I mean?) What did Wired dig up? Here are some highlights: Read More... Posted Mar 12 2009, 08:36 PM by Brett Singer with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: video games, toys, Wired, retro, electronics, Brett Singer, the 80's, old stuff, electronic toys

• Something Else to Annoy Parents: The Baby BlackBerry!

  From Leapfrog, maker of all things loud and useless, comes a new product you've really got to hope nobody sends your kid for her birthday -- the Baby BlackBerry. We all know that babies, toddlers and preschoolers are magnetically attracted to all their parents' electronic goodies (in our house, the iPhones are zealously guarded, lest the toddler make off with one and smear the screen with his grubby little hands), but is that any reason to buy them one of their own? Isn't this inviting an ever-faster indoctrination into the cult of consumerism, creating a new generation that will be even more disconnected from actual interaction that those preceding it?  Read More... Posted Jan 30 2009, 12:01 PM by Kate Tuttle with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Blackberry, texting, cell phone, telephone, texts, leapfrog, electronic toys