educational kids' toys

Holiday season is just around the corner (hold me) and we're starting to see lots of great kids' electronic gifts popping up. We have covered VTech's InnoTab kids' tablets for years, harking all the way back to the original InnoTab when …

As much as I embrace technology and consider my iPhone another appendage, I still feel nostalgic for the simpler times when tech didn't rule over everything, especially for my kids. Which is why I find the Kickstarter campaign for a new …

Back in September, I discovered a cool board game on Kickstarter with a lofty goal: To teach kids as young as four the basics of programming. And now that I have a final copy of Robot Turtles , I can say that you parents of preschoolers …

In the wake of the hugely popular female LEGO scientist minifig , LEGO goes one giant step for humankind further in introducing a LEGO Research Institute set featuring female scientists . And we stand up and applaud for more smart STEM t…

We are so excited about the range of science and technology toys that are being created for our kids these days. I love that my kids are using their minds while they play, learning the whole time without realizing it, and the newest play…

Sure, our kids love to play with iPads like uh, all kids these days, but no matter how educational an app may be , it's usually a solitary activity. We've loved collaborative games made for iPad like Duo Plink (though the company is sadl…

Kickstarter at MoMA brings together two of our favorite things -- awesome Kickstarter-fueled innovations and the MoMA Design Store. They've gathered a collection of successful Kickstarter products in honor of NYCxDESIGN, and it's a cool …

If you've not hear about the wildly hot new tech toy Anki DRIVE , it's the brain-child of oh, just a few Carnegie Mellon scientists who combined robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and slot car racing to create an entirel…

With the explosion of monthly subscription boxes , we've gotten uber picky about the ones we recommend. Especially subscription boxes for kids, since no one wants to give a lame birthday gift. Worth a look: the brand new Appleseed Lane m…

We've been fans of littleBits , the creative, magnetic, electronic maker toy, for quite a while. Though now that it's turning our kids into rock stars with their littleBits Synth Kit , we're total groupies. This is one very satisfying to…

Mamas of my generation will immediately recognize the phrase: Mom always said, don't play ball in the house. Funny how decades after those Brady Bunch days, I am still reminded of that phrase every time I see my kids--yeah. Playing ball …

Tracking down the coolest new gadgets for kids is one of our great joys as both parents and picky consumers. Each year sees a ton of launches, but not all of them make it to the next. Here, our very favorite launches of 2013 which both k…

If your kids are no longer enchanted by SIRI, there's a new robot in town that is ready to enter their iPhone and make things fun again. Known as ROMO , this programmable robotic pet is part educational, part adorable, and part little fu…

We're so excited to launch our 2013 Holiday Tech Gift Guide with the very coolest tech gifts for kids. Boy, this was a tough year to pare down our very favorites, but pare down we did, leaving you with 16 tech gifts for kids of all ages …

Poking around one of my favorite online shops, Fat Brain Toys , I was looking to see what's new and geeky and cool for kids now that school is close to letting out around here. That's when I came across this robot. But it's no ordinary r…

We're so excited to present the first in our Holiday Tech Gifts series! Starting with . . . cool games and tech toys for the kids. Yeah, we know that big kids and teens probably want shoot-em-up games for their consoles but hey, we're st…

Everyone knows by this point that the LeapFrog LeapPad has become the must-have tech gift for the holidays this year. We love it so much that we included it as one of our 10 hottest holiday tech gifts in 2011. It's a great toy--but the t…

I feel pretty lucky to have a couple of daughters who dig STEM -- that's science, technology, engineering and math, in case you've seen the acronym floating around. While there are so many exciting developments in the last few years desi…