In 2006 artist Chris Burden and a team of eight studio assistants, including an engineer, began “Metropolis II.” It includes 1,200 custom-designed cars and 18 lanes; 13 toy trains and tracks; and, dotting the landscape, buildings made of wood block, tiles, Legos and Lincoln Logs. The crew is still at work on the installation. In […]
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Kids like to do things themselves, and this includes putting on shoes. Unfortunately, they often do not have the right and left shoe concept down. One mom has created a new product that will help kids put their shoe on the right foot, time after time. Just four years ago the inspiration hit Ellen Lichtman.
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The New York Times is reporting that midway through last year, as analysts tried to predict where the economy was going, toy maker Bill Nichols decided he had the answer. He bet that the economy would still be so shaky this holiday season that a bargain-priced plastic toy would take off. With the help of
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Craig Kunce – Author who Inspires Kids to Invent When we are children, we’re taught to reach for the stars. Any idea is possible if we want it to be. As we get older, some of us lose that piece of creativity that we once had. Some of us write books that will inspire
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If you have little kids you might want to add this to your holiday shopping list. The Gyro Bowl, dishwasher safe, with 100 percent kid-proof, virtually indestructible construction, the Gyro Bowl is perfect for wagging around by small children, but it’s also great as a serving bowl at parties and as a spill-proof container for
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Mashable is reporting that according to a recent survey from Nielsen, 31% of U.S. children ages 6 to 12 want an iPad over any other electronic device in the next six months, followed by a computer (29%) and iPod touch (29%). The study, which was conducted in October, includes 17 different kinds of popular electronic
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Jennifer Varner recently launched a nonprofit that helps connect sick kids with a computer of their own reports WRAL.com. Kilian, her youngest child, is her inspiration. Last August, Varner was three months pregnant with Kilian when she was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. She and her husband had just returned from a trip to Chicago
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It is pretty safe to say that most coffee shops do not cater to children. As a matter of fact, there probably won’t be a kid in sight. That is not true for the Kid Kaf. Adeline Chapron had noticed a trend in her own neighborhood. When she would visit a coffee shop she soon
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Kids are messy. Ask any parent and they will tell you. Whether it is food strewn across the floor while they eat or an art project gone awry, kids love to make messes and the parents are left to clean it up. A new product hopes to help relieve some of that stress. “Keep it
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While you’re searching the isles for yourself, where are you kids at? In Merrick, NY there is a good chance that your kids are shopping in their own section at the Mini Market Kids Boutique reports the Merrick Patch. “There are not a lot of stores that focus on this type of product,” Scarfone said.
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