Tag: children
Tech Jacket & App Simulate Hugging Your Child At Just The Right Time
I remember about six months ago when I wrote about a tech jacket that inflates and hugs (squeezes) you whenever you receive a Facebook like on your page. It is a way to convert online 'likes' into IRL hugs. It seems a bit bizarre, but I'm sure some people get into it. Now it seems that 30-year-old J ...
![Return Of The Jedi Junior: Star Wars That Kids Can Relate To [Video]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/return-of-jedi-junior-1-optimized.jpg "Return Of The Jedi Junior: Star Wars That Kids Can Relate To [Video]")
Return Of The Jedi Junior: Star Wars That Kids Can Relate To [Video]
If you are looking for a way to introduce your mini-me geeks to Star Wars, I may have found the perfect solution for you. You can get them as excited about the next Star Wars movie as you by letting them watch this Return of the Jedi video. It's the junior version, and it's the most adorable Star Wa ...
Lenticular Printing Tech Creates Secret Message For Abused Children
This street sign, which has gone viral, has a secret message in it that only children can see. It's everywhere online it seems, and it definitely deserves a place here on Bit Rebels too. Child abuse is such a heartbreaking epidemic, as is the fact that 70% of abused children turn into adult abusers. ...
Superhero Lunchbox Paper Napkins Designed By A Mom For Her Children
Just a couple days ago, I wrote about a father who has been doodling on his kids' lunchbox sandwich bags almost every day since 2008. It's become a special tradition in their family, and he's uploaded over 1,000 of his sandwich bag designs to flickr. You can read more about that at Sandwich Bag Lunc ...
![Schools Turn Kids Into Geeks With Classroom Technologies [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/classroom-technologies-statistics-overview-infographic-optimized.jpg "Schools Turn Kids Into Geeks With Classroom Technologies [Infographic]")
Schools Turn Kids Into Geeks With Classroom Technologies [Infographic]
I find the topic of technologies in our schools quite fascinating. I don't think anyone can deny the fact that the world is revolving more and more around technology. The way we implement gadgets and devices into our everyday lives is increasing in speed, and that's just how it is. It's a good thing ...
Sandwich Bag Lunchbox Doodles From A Father With Love
For many kids, school is a boring way to spend 6 hours a day. They look forward to the weekend all week, and then they are met with Monday morning all too soon. I remember those days, and I remember how excited I was when my mother put a surprise in my lunchbox. Sometimes it was just a simple note o ...
Interactive Kids Pajamas With Bedtime Stories Embedded Via QR Codes
Children love bedtime stories, and reading a book is part of the bedtime routine for children all around the world. Have you ever thought about what it would be like to incorporate technology into that process? Maybe you already read eBooks to your children. This is definitely a new twist for bedtim ...
4-Year-Old Boy Recovers Easier With A Custom Star Wars AT-AT Walker
This is the kind of Star Wars story that will make you smile all day long. I don't think of Star Wars as being a kid's movie, but the truth is, it's a movie that inspires little kids around the world to explore their creativity and imaginations everyday. The AT-AT seems to be something that kids rea ...
Interactive Wall Is A High Tech Playground For Hospitalized Children
I've written about several different interactive wall or floor installations lately, and it seems people are coming up with more and more creative ways to use this type of technology to enhance our world. In this particular example, you'll see a gigantic television game (which is the size of a whole ...
Hole-Digging Calculator: Where You’d End Up If You Just Kept Digging
Remember the good old days? Those days when you would sit in the back garden, digging a giant hole? I do. I was digging to China. It's probably good that I never made it. After all, it would have been a tad hot in the molten parts of the earth, I think. I mean, I would have brought my sunglasses and ...
Horrify Children With The Headless Teddy Bear USB Drive
As a child, I always loved teddy bears. I had an extensive collection of teddy bears in a wide range of colors and sizes. Some of my teddy bears were elaborate collector's items like my Shakespearean Panda Build-A-Bear, whereas others were more simple teddy bears I won from those crane machines. I l ...
404 Error Pages That Help Find Missing Children
Finally I've found something that makes my heart fill with hope. It comes as a technology solution that could mean a huge increase in spread when it comes to finding missing children. My heart always goes south when I hear about a child who's been abducted or one who is missing. For a parent, it is ...
Roominate Dollhouse Lets Her Be A Little Engineer & Architect
When I was a kid, my sister put her foot through my dollhouse. It cracked down the middle. Needless to say, my soul still bears the scars of that moment. If I’d had an alarm for the dollhouse, perhaps connected to a few high intensity lasers, we’d all be sitting around telling a different story, wou ...
Helping Hand Rebranding To Help Underprivileged Children Read
I am writing about this because I personally like the mission of the Reading Is Fundamental organization. It also hit my design radar because the illustrative icon designs and other work the New York agency and other contributing artists (Steven Harrington, Mark Giglio, Todd St. John, Dan Stiles, an ...
How Age Determines A Father’s Awesomeness
There is no escaping it no matter how much we want to. It's going to haunt us until our heart beats its last beat. I am talking about age and how it affects us physically and the way we think. Whether it's a second or a day, it all signifies change, and we're always getting older. Some people try to ...