Samsung Ace for Sprint
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Good news for Sprint business customers who want a world-roaming smartphone but don’t want the RIM BlackBerry 8830 World Edition. Today, the carrier introduced the Samsung Ace, a Samsung BlackJack lookalike, that offers dual-mode CDMA/GSM functionality so you can use your …

Original post by Bonnie Cha

While Fisher-Price’s Kid-Tough digital camera was already built to withstand the Guantanamo-level torture your average four-year-old dishes out to their toys, the latest model will hold up to 30 minutes of waterboarding too, despite a rounder, slimmer body. The insides have gotten an upgrade as well, with a 1.3MP sensor (up from 640×480) and 64MB of storage that’ll hold 500 closeups of your kid’s boogers. galleryPost(\’kidtoughcam\’, 2, \’\');[Fisher-Price]

Original post by matt buchanan

While weren’t quite as blown away by D-REX as we were by Elmo Live—”jazz hands” killed our objective judgment—the level of interactivity is pretty impressive for what’s supposed to be a dumb child’s toy (the kid, not the ‘bot). About the size of a small puppy, it behaves semi-autonomously, though it’ll follow patterns you pick w/ the remote like guarding your room (if it detects a light change, it goes apeshit) and (cutely) responds to petting, calling and the like. I’m not quite sure it’s worth $150 yet, but even in this beta stage, it’s damn close, and the fall launch date leaves plenty of polish time.
This fall, Mattel adds a new category to its toy portfolio with the introduction of D-Rex, an interactive “pet” dinosaur for boys that boasts life-like movements, obeys commands, displays affection and protects its owner. Featuring “biomorphic robotics,” a sub-discipline of robotics that focuses on […]

Original post by matt buchanan

At some point in our lives, we were cramming for exams that we had no chance of passing. It is unfortunate then that we did not have the Leapfrog Crammer at our disposal, which would have permitted us to create customized digital flashcards for viewing whilst listening to our tunes.
As it goes, our preparation consisted of only listening to our tunes, which wasn’t nearly as much help as the flashcards would have been. Retailing at $59.99, with 1GB memory for tunes and index cards, 2.5-inch monochrome screen with display mounted controls, Mac and PC compatible software suite and an included Spanish translator, the Crammer finally makes revision cool. Remember kids, you may not need fancy gadgets to do well at school, but you will need them if you want to impress girls and be popular. It worked for us, right? (Rhetorical question.) [Boing Boing]

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Original post by Haroon Malik