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Is Society’s Internet Addiction Affecting The Children?
February 3, 2010
This generation of kids (and in fact even the ones before them) have often been portrayed as fat couch potatoes by the media at large, children who are slowly loosing the ability to use language and their legs correctly and who are developing a distorted view of the world based on bad communication skills, the Internet being for porn and mass killings with terrorists in Russian airports.
There will always be people to defend them – mostly a mix of gaming enthusiasts, the occasional scientist and games manufacturers PR departments – but the results of a recent survey are fairly condemning where they show that kids are spending nearly eight hours online every day!
Continue reading »5 Christmas Gadget Present / Gift Ideas For Children (2009)
November 18, 2009
Here’s a list of some of the greatest gifts you can get for young children or siblings this Christmas. Endless fun and excitement right through to Boxing Day no doubt. There really are some quite amazing things on offer nowadays that any of us would have loved at that age.
Big Bubble Maker
Remember those little pots of bubble liquid we used to have as kids? Simply dip the oval shaped stick into the liquid and blow. Yeah well this is just like that. But a ka-zillion times bigger. It works in a similar fashion, with a huge loop to fill with the magic bubble formula but this time, your puny breath will not do. Drag it along with you to make huge bubbles. They even claim to be as big as a bus! A bonus feature of this magnificent kit is the recipe book. How to cook up your own magic bubble formula from household liquids so you have no need to buy a whole new kit every time. Just £8.99 from iwantoneofthose.com seems reasonable to me.
Continue reading »Children’s GPS Tracking Watch Voted Coolest Gadget of the Week!
October 5, 2009
Well we’ve only gone and done it again and had our Children’s GPS tracking watch entry voted as Coolest Gadget of the Week for 1st October 2009! Zath truly is a place to come to see some cool hi-tech gadgets!
It’s only a few months since we featured the Amazon Kindle DX here on Zath, which was then submitted as an entry and subsequently won the title of Coolest Gadget of the Week as voted for by the readers of the Coolest Gadgets website.
Continue reading »Children’s GPS Tracking Watch – ‘lok8u num8′
September 21, 2009
Is there really a need to tag a child with a GPS watch? Well it seems that every day in the press there’s more news about murderers, rapists and generally bad people and although you’d have a case in saying that a lot of this is just scaremongering, the fact that the streets are more dangerous than they ‘used to be’ is one that you’d struggle to deny.
So parents today are faced with the dilemma of either letting their children out to the mercy of the outside world, or restrict their freedom and keep them under tabs neither of which are in any way beneficial to the children in question… and that’s where the num8 Kids GPS Watch comes in.
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