Kids

A 3D printer saved the life of a baby boy with a rare disease that kept him from breathing properly, doctors are reporting in the New England Journal of Medicine. The boy, Kaiba Gionfriddo of Ohio, had been diagnosed with severe tracheobronchomalacia, a rare respiratory condition that caused his airways to collapse, blocking the flow Continue Reading →

What social networks are teens flocking to these days? That’s the billion dollar question as we see companies like Yahoo snapping up Tumblr in an effort to keep a younger audience. But teens are a tough audience to predict, and trends can change dramatically even in a single year. About 24 percent of teens who Continue Reading →

If you want a job straight out of college, don’t come knocking on Kirk McDonald’s door. President of a tech company in New York City, McDonald wrote a brutally honest op-ed in the Wall Street Journal called ‘Sorry, College Grads, I Probably Won’t Hire You.’ He believes most college graduates don’t have the one skill Continue Reading →

Google’s making it easy for educators and their students to discover and recommend applications and books with Play for Education. Announced onstage at this year’s I/O by Chris Yerga, Google’s Android Engineering Director, the new Play storefront organizes content by education type, age and various other criteria to make the content discovery process simple for Continue Reading →

Sony’s no stranger to the odd e-ink device, but its latest prototype creation isn’t targeted at the bookworm, it’s intended to educate. The e-paper slate is quite a lot bigger than most tablets, let alone e-readers, sporting a 13.3-inch screen (1,200 x 1,600) to match the standard A4 size of normal, boring paper. That display Continue Reading →

Texting while driving has now replaced drunk driving as the number one cause of teenage deaths on the road in the U.S., new research has found. The study, performed by the Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New York, found that more than 300,000 teens are injured and more than 3,000 die each year as a Continue Reading →

  Until I watched the Reddit video on existentialism, I couldn’t tell you what it meant. Sure, I had heard about the philosophy once or twice, but the actual definition… a bit hazy. Good thing I stumbled across a clever new YouTube series called ‘Explain Like I’m Five.’ The Reddit team makes it easy to understand complicated ideas. Continue Reading →

If you’re looking for some serious control over your family’s Wi-Fi use and home network, a Palo-Alto, Calif., company has developed a new cloud-based solution. PowerCloud Systems’ Skydog Wi-Fi router and mobile companion site lets parents monitor Internet access and even receive text notifications for certain network activity. The system works by signing up with Continue Reading →

After a difficult birth, women are sometimes separated from their newborns because the babies are in the neonatal intensive care unit and the mothers are recovering elsewhere in the hospital. Cedars-Sinai in LA is providing iPads for “BabyTime”, though, so families can stay connected. Doctors at Cedars-Sinai estimate that 20 to 30 percent of mothers Continue Reading →

Apple has begun making its age ratings for apps clearer for users of the App Store after it introduced a notification box which sits alongside developer credentials. The change — first spotted by Apple Insider — is subtle but it is one that makes age limits on apps all the more visible. It comes at Continue Reading →