Technology

WREXlabs is everything that is right with parents today. This awesome site crafted by a father son team, Tim and Declan, is a forum for curiosity encouraging kids and parents alike to take stuff apart and see how they work.

Blogging from a SF conference called TechCrunch50, NY Times writer Brad Stone writes that some Silicon Valley startups will be targeting your (and my) kids very soon:

"...One is a virtual world called Hangout.net (hangout.net). Another is a portal for tweens called Tweegee.com The third is Blah Girls from Ashton Kutcher — more on that later.

I think this must be a common thing for iPhone-owning parents--wondering if it's OK to let your two year-old old use it as a video game console... Once they get their hands on it, they're addicted. Kinda like their parents... A friend of mine at work even proposed we create a line of educational iPhone apps for kids. Victor Agreda, Jr. discusses this phenomenon on tuaw.com:

A Los Angeles Times article claims that Los Angeles Unified School District plans to set up an Internet program that will enable parents to monitor and manage children’s lunch-money spending, how many times they're late to class and just how poorly they're doing in algebra... Is this an empowering form of transparency, or another slide toward a culture of surveillance?

Adobe announced new versions of its Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements suites for editing, cataloging and sharing digital photos and home videos on Tuesday. The tools are aimed squarely at novice users and budding hobbyists, yet they deliver much of what's available in more powerful, pro-level applications. (found via Wired Feed)

A year after revealing at Comic-Con 2007 in San Diego that Cartoon Network plans to join the MMOG realm with Fushion Fall whipping us into a cartoon/MMOG induced frenzy the fine people at Cartoon Network are back this year to remind us Fushion Fall is coming and it's gonna rock the MMOG world. Cartoon Network¹s browser-based MMOG (massively multiplayer online game) was announced yesterday at Comic-Con 2008 in San Diego giving more to go all ga-ga over. Set to be released this fall, the game will incorporate characters from the network¹s many shows.