Family Tech Category Archive

By Tracy Lee Carroll
The world keeps getting smaller. Back when my eleven year old daughter was in Mrs. Stone’s second grade class at World Elementary in Nashua, she was assigned a Flat Stanley project. For those of you who have not yet met Flat Stanley, he is a young man (as told about by Jeff Brown) who [...]

It’s no secret that my daughter has been playing on the computer for quite a while. And although we limit screen time, she’s still managed to memorize the songs from several movies, and even some of the standard commercials on PBS Sprout.
So while I encourage her curiosity, I also realize that TV, and to a [...]

Coming in early 2009, the Origami stroller from 4Moms opens and closes with the push of a button. This wonder stroller is powered by a generator that recharges as the stroller rolls: walk 300’ and you’ve got enough charge to power the transition.
The Origami is also made of 90% recycled materials and features daytime running [...]

Just saw that Toys “R” Us is selling the blue SanDisk Sansa Shaker 512MB MP3 player for $12.50 this week (9/21/08-9/27/08) – 50% off their regular price. This is a great first MP3 player, and our favorite for older kids (read our review). Although the recommended age is 8+,  younger kids could probably use it [...]

A few months ago I reviewed the weemote 3 from Fobis Technologies. Today it’s time to look at another of their children’s remotes, the weemote DV. The weemote 3 did a great job simplifying TV viewing, but can the weemote DV do the same thing for DVDs?
First Impressions
Picture your average remote: it’s probably black or [...]

The Telegraph posted a story yesterday about a Pelham man who had advertised a party on MySpace. Among those who paid to get in were 25 minors from Dracut, Lowell, Lawrence, Chelmsford, Tyngsboro, Tewksbury, Nashua and Hampton. But I’m not posting about this story because local kids were drinking, after all that’s nothing new. And [...]

By now I’m sure you’ve heard of Google Maps. Like many people, you’ve probably already used it (or a similar mapping service) to find directions to a new restaurant, store or other family destination. But now Southern New Hampshire families have another reason to use it: Google has mapped the Manchester and Nashua areas with [...]

Am I going to hand (my daughter) the remote so she can access 100+ channels of digital TV by herself?

I asked that question about a year ago in a post titled “Say Hello to Generation We.” What I didn’t know then was that it wouldn’t be the TV she was going to be interested [...]

PlayStation 3. XBox 360. Nintendo Wii.
There’s no doubt that video games are big business and it’s not always easy to tell which ones are appropriate for your children. And with the wide range of games available, not to mention the amount of advertising dollars being spent to promote them, it’s a safe bet [...]

Looking for an easy way to give something back to your community? Internet search engine Goodsearch gives half its revenue (about a penny per search) to nonprofits. That would be a good reason to use GoodSearch instead of Yahoo! or Google, but there’s more: you get to pick the charity your searches benefit.
Just visit www.goodsearch.com [...]