Adorable tech: the augmented reality comfort blanket
Hospitals still scare me – the sterility, the fact that, well, they’re full of ill people – so I can’t even imagine what it’s like to be a kid stuck … Continue reading
Re-Mission 2 makes hospitals less scary
Re-Mission 2 is a series of mini-games that aim to bring that escape video games can provide to seriously ill kids, whilst being a little more educational than Super Mario Bros. 3. Not only that, the games may even help kids fight diseases like cancer.
‘Power to the parents!’ with the MiiPC
Quib.ly parents and professionals have debated how much monitoring is the right amount when it comes to your kids’ computer usage before: whether it’s best to let them get on with it, go full Big Brother, or to maintain a balance between the two. The Kickstarter-funded MiiPC is an elegant solution to that problem. An elegant solution that you can play Angry Birds on.
What we learned this week #39
The Associated Press had their Twitter hacked, Nintendo finally turned a profit again – maybe there’s life in the old console yet – while Apple’s earnings fell for the first time in a decade. Yikes.
What we learned this week #29
It’s been an exciting week in our corner of the world. Here’s some neat stuff we learned this week.
What we learned this week #28
One of the interesting things about Quib.ly is keeping up the tight-rope act of being a passionate cheerleader for technology, whilst acknowledging its occasional drawbacks – this week saw very potent examples for each side.
Is the internet really a dark and dangerous place?
Julie Lynn Evans, ‘one of the [UK’s] foremost child psychotherapists’, says it can be. She is ‘convinced that the internet… makes any problem more urgent, more dramatic’ and that has resulted directly in a worsening in the behaviour of teens.
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Should lessons take place on treadmills?
Want to tackle the increasing levels of childhood obesity? How about the issue of kids struggling academically? Why not kill two birds with one stone? A school in Chicago has … Continue reading
How could iOS 6 help disabled kids?
Quib.ly contributor, Cliff Jones, looks at the features that will make Apple’s latest operating system more accessible to young people with disabilities.
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