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OLPC XO-1 (One Laptop Per Child)

Digital Living This ultraportable is both a digital lifeline for children in developing countries and a cyber hippy's dream. Is this a revolutionary piece of kit or just a high-tech toy?

Tags: olpc, kit, tech, children

25 January 2008, 11:01

What camcorder for filming kids in low light?

Digital Living Considering that my child is very active and doesn't stay still for a second, and that it's coming into autumn now so most shooting will happen indoors or in lowish light, what can you recommend? The faster your child moves in low light, the more...

14 September 2006, 15:02

Don't let your children catch DVD

Digital Living Even if it's possible to fast-forward these ghastly, not-available-in-stores trailers for substandard, never-heard-of-it merchandise (films about rabbits with no ears, Ninja kittens or budgies with leukaemia) the child always manages to see at...

24 April 2006, 11:09

Do Aibos dream of electric sheep?

Digital Living Play dates with other toddlers are enjoyable for your child, but they're exhausting, and when you're done you can't take other people's children, touch them gently on the back of the neck and store them in a wardrobe, unless you have a very good...

12 October 2005, 9:10

Home cinema: understanding the risks

Digital Living The rich saturated colours of animations like Wallace and Gromit and Valiant look great on a projector, and after 15 minutes or so you'll creep into the darkened room to find one child asleep, another busily eating dirt from a pot plant and...

2 March 2006, 16:29

The world's cheapest camcorder

Digital Living The doorbell rings and yet another much-loved child arrives and your wife says, 'Get the camcorder! One of my favourites was showing off what it claimed was the world's cheapest camcorder. Their English PR guy tapped me on the shoulder as I was...

17 January 2006, 11:17