One of the coolest gifts you can buy for your kid this Christmas is a toy car, and the new Ferrari Big Quad seems to be a nice option. This new toy quad from the Ferrari store operates with a motor and rechargeable 6V battery, and features a foot accelerator and electric brake. Recommended for kids aged 3 and up, the Ferrari Big Quad weighs in at 19kgs and has a speed of 5.25 Km/h. It sells for $314.
CHEM C3000 is an excellent way to prepare for high-school level, and even college level, chemistry. Thorough safety precautions and instructions ensure safe experimentation. Professional quality equipment and an easy-to-follow Experiment Manual help you make the most of your chemistry experiments. And i don’t know if that’s such a good idea!
The kit includes all the fun stuff you’ll need like apparatus and chemicals to complete all the 360 different experiments. And while they vary in complexity and entertainment value, there appear to be a few gems like making your own hydrochloric acid, which I’m going to assume ends up safely diluted. The Thames & Kosmos website lists all the fun stuff the kit comes with, and I’d encourage you to look at the $249.95 price tag as an investment in your kids’ futures. Or a major home renovation!
The Angelcare Deluxe Plus seems to be the most sophisticated baby monitor you’re likely to find. It’s a sound a movement monitor. The sound part is self-explanatory, it will alert you if your baby’s crying. The movement detection is a much more complex matter, as it detects the slightest, tiniest movements – even a baby’s breathing, and if there is no motion for 20 seconds, it sounds the alarm.
Under the mattress is where you place the Angerlcare’s sensor pad for the motion detection to work. The sound monitor is inside the main unit, which also has a soft nightlight and room thermometer. Set a range for it – it’s displayed on the parent’s monitor, and it will alert you if temperatures fall below the right threshold. The maximum range between the two units is 820 feet.
You can even set it to gently tick on the parent monitor when there’s movement, but that probably refers to some higher, more deliberate degree of movement than just breathing.
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For the uber-rich kids who are born with an inherent taste for the finer things in life, the PlaySam Saab Roadster is a great activity toy. Suitable for children over 12 month of age, the Saab Roadster wooden toy car has a clean and simple design inspired by the very first Saab-Sixten Sason?s prototype 92001. The car comes with a high gloss finish and looks as cool as the original Saab cars from the ?40s and ?50s. Designed by Ulf Hanses, the toy has a steering wheel made of wood and metal, just like the one usually seen inside the old sports car. The PlaySam Saab Roadster is priced at ?295 (around $390).
The Guava Family GoCrib is an inflatable travel crib/playpen for kids. The big advantage the GoCrib has over other travel cribs (Pack n
The Barbie Video Girl camera from Mattel gives Barbie a new job.
Remember the excitement you felt receiving mail as a child? That’s the inspiration behind San Francisco-based Little Passports, a new educational subscription service that aims to turn 5-to-10-year-olds into world travellers, one country at a time. Little Passports delivers monthly travel packages designed to provide a fun, hands-on way for kids to learn about other countries without leaving home. The first shipment in the USD 10.95 per month subscription prepares little voyagers for their global adventure with a mini suitcase, passport, world map and a letter and photo introducing their travel guides, Sam and Sofia.
Each following month, children receive a personalized letter and package from Sam and Sofia, which includes travel-related items like a passport stamp, suitcase sticker and collectible boarding pass to access online games and activities that teach geography, history, culture and vocabulary. As the months pass, little travellers notch up a jetsetter’s stamp-filled passport, personalize their suitcase, and pack it with country-specific souvenirs.
In an era dominated by electronic communication, people are embracing concepts from a slower age, like the company that transforms emails into paper letters and one that resurrected the classic telegram. Little Passports combines that nostalgia for ‘real’ mail and combines it with the convenience of a subscription service.
Nice marketing, but c?mon, we?ve all seen kids eat. In reality, that construction zone would look like cleanup after a major earthquake. I bet none of those mixed vegetables would even be touching the plate since they would be busy flying toward the walls, the floor, your head, anyplace but the kid?s mouth. That?s what you get when you encourage kids to play with their food. But I?m sure this is better than giving them one of these.
With hot rod-styling and high-end materials, The Roddler ($2,000) just might be the world’s coolest stroller. It features two rear and one front chrome wheels with fin-shaped fenders and white wall tires, color-matching brakes, wheel bullets, chassis, seat, and top, stainless steel hardware, chrome grips, an ultrasuede seat insert for comfort and carbon vinyl leatherette for the seat and top for added durability. Better yet, order one with the Trike kit included ($2,500) and transform the stroller into a bitchin’ trike when you’re kid is ready to take the wheel.