children

Don't let your children catch DVD

Digital Living If you're a parent, you need to understand a new threat to your children's health: the possibility of infection with the DVD virus. Your children can now be exposed to DVDs at the homes of their friends, in supermarkets and shopping centres -- even...

24 April 2006, 12:09

Home cinema: understanding the risks

Digital Living Your children will weep as you mess about with miles of cabling and they discover that watching CBeebies involves hand-cranking a generator and pumping a 17-digit code into your universal remote. Projectors and a good home cinema system are...

2 March 2006, 16:29

Living with infinite digital choice

Digital Living What fascinates me are the strategies children will use to negotiate this post-modern cultural terrain. Many children are now growing up in homes that have slightly fewer books, as their limited shelf space has to accomodate hundreds of CDs, DVDs...

26 October 2005, 12:48

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, 10:10

Which camera for family snapshots?

Digital Living I'm just looking to take normal family pictures and holiday snaps of my children etc to email to other family members. This is especially true if your children are young, because you'll probably be weighed down with buckets and spades (or footballs...

3 August 2006, 12:47

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

Don't cut the technology cord

Digital Living When did phones decide that being safely tethered in the hall was a bad idea and that they could do their job much better while being posted out the cat flap by our children or given away by mistake to your local charity shop?

25 March 2006, 8:00

How can I take pictures without flash?

Digital Living The other advantage of an SLR is that it's more responsive, so you can take pictures more quickly -- always an advantage when you're photographing children. I have a Nikon Coolpix digital camera. It's a good camera and easy to use.

13 December 2006, 11:58

Living in a fantasy world

Digital Living Comfortably dismissing them as games for children, we don't realise how much of our lives are now digital, virtual and imaginary, taking place online in worlds our grandparents would have found as peculiar and improbable as the fantasy robots of...

10 July 2006, 12:16

The world's cheapest camcorder

Digital Living The shoebox gets put in storage in a leaky crawl space where it's forgotten and then you move, new people move in and it's discovered by the new owner's children. One of my favourites was showing off what it claimed was the world's cheapest camcorder.

17 January 2006, 11:17

Format wars: The tech that should have won

Digital Living Later on, there was the added bonus of digital surround sound, meaning that people could have a cinema-style experience in their own home, without the sticky floors and hooligan children throwing popcorn at them.

Tags: cd rom, next generation, tape, steve

23 July 2007, 10:49