children

Spy on your children with the KidsOK phone service

Crave Additional pings cost £9.95 for 20, so it'll cost you 49.8p every time you want to know where your children are hiding. KidsOK says the service enables you to find out where your children are without ringing them up and embarrassing them in front...

Tags: children, location, phones, pings

20 July 2005, 12:56

Mobile phones for children: Do we want them?

Crave The age is expected to drop to five years old this year -- but why are we buying mobile phones for our young children? Unlike standard mobile phones, these handsets feature software that allows parents to limit texts, calls and downloads, restrict...

Tags: age, mobile phones, children, child

15 August 2006, 12:07

Crave Talk: Sleeping eight hours a night can kill

Crave Gadgets are depriving children of sleep, affecting their eating habits and turning them into fatties. We'll concede: young children should probably get more sleep, but grown-ups shouldn't worry -- too much sleep is probably quite bad for you.

Tags: cent, night, children, study

28 August 2007, 12:33

Crave Talk: Consumer electronics ate my child's imagination

Crave Modern children resemble city traders on the brink of burn-out. Do children have a rev counter we're red-lining by exposing them to so much input? An open letter published today in The Daily Telegraph, from 110 teachers, psychologists, children's...

Tags: adjust, children, entertainment, human

12 September 2006, 13:26

Crave Talk: Is Wi-Fi the 21st century plague?

Crave Wi-Fi will rot children's brains, eat their innards and decay the fabric of modern society as we know it. The worry is that children, who have thinner skulls and under-developed nervous systems, are more likely to suffer.

Tags: fi, children, wi fi, health

21 May 2007, 13:05

Hands-on with mobiles2go's i-Kids phone

Crave This might look like a kitchen appliance you'd use to test the temperature of pies, but it's actually a mobile phone designed for children. Crave is still a little sceptical of small children running around with mobiles beaming radiation into their...

Tags: kids, children, mobile phone, child

23 March 2007, 10:45

What your favourite Web sites say about you

Crave Is Slashdot populated exclusively by geeks who were bullied as children? What MySpace says about youThe MySpace demographic varies from 11-year-old school children to 35 year olds who have never quite grown up.

10 September 2007, 17:27

Sony Aibo has been put down: An obituary

Crave No longer will its chirpy little voice and drunken swagger delight and amuse children. Admittedly only rich children will feel the pain, as Aibo retailed for £1,450. Sony Aibo 1999-2006. It's a sad day for electric pet owners: Sony has had the Aibo...

Tags: sony uk, children, dog, aibo

27 January 2006, 10:43

Sony Bravia KDL-20S3070U: At last, a pink LCD TV

Crave We saw the Sony Bravia KDL-20S3070U coming from a mile away, and we don't just mean because it's brightly coloured -- each year parents seem to give their children increasingly extravagant gifts in increasingly ludicrous colours.

Tags: sony, children, inch, budget

26 November 2007, 11:10

Photos: LG gets its kit out for Crave in South Korea

Crave The towers overlook Seoul's Han river (Great river) and play host to LG's Learning Center for children. LG's 3D imaging technology can more commonly be seen in commercial displays, but is put to better use in a children's simulator.

16 November 2006, 15:33

Crave Podcast 59: Bionic limbs -- armless fun?

Crave This week's stories include the accusation from UK children's minister Beverly Hughes that MySpace makes children fat.We also tell you about a forthcoming brain-controlled bionic arm, and how it could get you into trouble.

Tags: children, episode, crave podcast, kids

16 November 2007, 10:46

Crave Talk: Huckleberry Finn vs modern gadget-toting kids

Crave Harry is one of 3 per cent of school children who take a laptop to school. The study conducted by Explorandum on behalf of Tesco polled 1,002 parents of children aged 11-16. With PE kits, trainers and calculators all needing bag space too, it's a...

Tags: school, children, kids, child

26 September 2006, 13:02

Xbox 360 Gears up for War (and Christmas)

Crave For a quirky children's title, Viva Piñata, from mercurial developer Rare, is getting a massive wodge of marketing from Microsoft, which sees it as a great way to reach beyond the hardcore gamer demographic.

Tags: microsoft, children, christmas, xbox

13 October 2006, 9:42

It's a bit of an animal: The anthropomorphic MP3 player

Crave Ostensibly aimed at children, the ironic bragging rights of owning such a player has attracted adult MP3 player fans. Indeed, the dexterity required to operate the small Hello Kitty MP3 player belies its apparent audience of children.

Tags: children, playback, objects, human

27 June 2006, 13:19

New OLPC laptop looks way too cool for school kids

Crave This is particularly important for children in remote and rural environments, where electricity is scarce or non-existent. Lowering the power consumption will reduce the amount of time required for children to generate power themselves via a hand...

Tags: generation, children, consumption, keyboards

21 May 2008, 11:30