I just got back from the New York Toy Fair and saw quite a few great items, including this clever little thing called the Talkatoo. It’s a little tag that can record your voice and then attach to your wee one’s backpack or bag. When your kid is upset at Day Care or on a five year journey in the Antarctic, they can simply press the button and hear your soothing voice.The devices are $17.99 each and come in multiple styles. While it may not seem that cool to us experience gadget nerds, parents who have kiddies with attachment issues will find it a helpful little tool for getting Junior to stop screaming at the door.Tweens can also use it to share notes with each other when they get too old for love notes from Mommy – as if that could ever happen.
Talkatoo: Tell your kids every little thing’s going to be alright
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Steve Jobs to Collaborate on Authorized Biography [RUMOR]
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Apple hasn’t officially commented yet, but according to The New York Times, Steve Jobs may finally cooperate on an authorized biography.Other biographers have attempted to tell Mr. Jobs’s life story without his express involvement or even consent, prompting him to respond by yanking books by the same publishers from Apple stores. Now two sources have confirmed to the Times that former Time magazine managing editor Walter Isaacson will get Jobs’s cooperation in producing an authorized biography of the Apple CEO.Isaacson is the author of two other best-selling biographies of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin. The book is still early in the planning stages, but is set to cover the life of the technology giant from his childhood to his career at Apple.Would you be inter
Plants vs. Zombies Now Available for iPhone
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Have you ever played a tower defense game? If you have, chances are you’ve been glued to it for days, devising strategies, planting towers and generally forgetting all your other obligations and activities.A game called Plants vs. Zombies offers a fun variation on the tower defense game: flower defense. Zombies attack, and your job is to stop them by planting vegetation that stops, maims or destroys them. Now, the same game is available for the iPhone, for a competitive price of $2.99.Features include the 50 level long Adventure mode (with the ability to replay levels via the Quick Play Arena), more than four dozen different plants, dozens of zombie types and lots of achievements that reward successful completion of various challenges.You can purchase the game from the App Store, o
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Desire: HTC’s Follow-Up to Nexus One
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As expected, HTC has unleashed a slew of Android smartphones here at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and I have to admit they’re looking really good.While not exactly groundbreaking, HTC Desire is the top-notch phone that competes primarily with Google’s Nexus One (also made by HTC), as it has similar looks and pretty much the same specifications.Here’s a quick overview: It’s an Android 2.1 phone with a 1 GHz Snapdragon CPU, 512MB or ROM and 576 MB of RAM memory, a 5 megapixel camera (with flash and autofocus), GPS, and the usual connectivity options: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G. It also has a beautiful AMOLED 3.7 inch screen (multi-touch is supported) with 480×800 pixel resolution.What makes it different from the Nexus One is the lack of trackball, and HTC&
HTC Legend Wins the Beauty Contest, Also Not Bad in the Brains Department
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Did you like the look of HTC Hero? If the answer is yes, you’re in for a treat, as HTC Legend is a leaner sexier, and all-around better version of that phone.Compared to HTC Desire, which I wrote about earlier, Legend is an inferior phone, mainly because it has a 600 MHz CPU (compared to Desire’s 1 GHz Snapdragon). On the other hand, compared to the Hero, it has a bigger (3.2 inch) screen with the same resolution (320 x 480 pixels), and the manual trackball has been replaced with an optical one (which I rarely thought of using when I tried it out — the touchscreen was more than enough for me).Other specs to note, besides Android 2.1, are the 5-megapixel camera, 512/384 MB of ROM/RAM, and Wi-Fi, 3G, Bluetooth and GPS. These should make the Legend a bit less desirable (pu
HTC Friend Stream Adds Social Aggregation to Sense UI
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Besides showing off the Desire, the Legend and the Windows Mobile-based HD mini, HTC also showcased a new version of its Sense UI (available only on the new Androids, and not on the HD mini), which has several very cool features.One of them is Leap, which lets you check out several home screens at once in a nifty grid. Besides Leap, I’ve noticed some new widgets and several minor improvements. For example, the browser now has a very nice way to copy and paste, as well as to check out dictionary definitions for a word.The feature I liked the best, though, is the Friend Steam. It takes all the social elements you have stored for your contacts (for example Twitter and Facebook feeds) and displays them all in one place, lifestream-style. It’s a really nice way to check what your
It’s Official: Skype Calling Coming to Verizon Smartphones
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On Saturday, we reported on rumors that Verizon and Skype would be announcing a partnership deal at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Well, it’s official. The two companies are announcing what they call a “strategic relationship that will bring Skype to Verizon Wireless smartphones in March.”Here’s how the Skype mobile and Verizon Wireless partnership will work: - 3G smartphone users with a data plan can make and receive unlimited Skype-to-Skype voice calls to any Skype user around the world.- Calls to international phone numbers will be at the Skype Out calling rate, if made through Skype mobile.- Users can send and receive instant messages to other Skype users and remain connected to see friends’ online statuses.The rollout for Skype mobile will be p
Google Buzz Monitoring Added to Viral Heat’s Analytics Platform
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GMAIL USERS: We hope you’ll join the discussion over on Mashable’s Google Buzz account.Given the more than 9 million Google Buzz posts and comments already in existence, Buzz conversation is ripe for data mining. Social media analytics firm Viralheat is wasting no time digging through Buzz information and integrating it into its product offering.Last night, Viralheat began to roll out Google Buzz monitoring — an addition to its already comprehensive social media monitoring service — to existing customers. The real-time Google Buzz data, gathered from more than three million profiles (and growing), is broken down to offer users insight into traffic, sentiment and influencer analytics.Viralheat’s self-service approach has always allowed customers the ability to buil
7 Things to Consider for Social Media in the Enterprise
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Lon S. Cohen is a freelance writer and is @obilon on Twitter. He’s also the Director of Communications at @ALSofGNY. This post was co-authored by Steve Cohen, who is the Founder of Baywood Consulting Group and the former CIO of M&T Bank. He can be contacted at baywoodconsultinggroup@gmail.com.Marketing and communications folks are all over social media. They implore company executives not to be left behind. Your company absolutely must get on the social media train this year before it leaves the station. So they go around and get management, sales and ultimately the president of the company all excited about this shiny new thing. Then it’s time to create the magic. That’s where the technology department steps in. Sure, many of the best online marketing folks these days know h
This Twittering Tree Can Tell You How it Feels [VIDEO]
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Sony Ericsson’s Connected Tree answers that age-old question: “If a tree tweets in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?”The tweeting, talking tree is being shown off at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and you can check out a demo video of the live and interactive orange tree in the video below.It may not be the first plant to master Twitter, but Connected Tree offers a unique motion-sensing interactivity with the people around it. It picks up changes in the electromagnetic field nearby as people approach or move away, and an attached analysis engine translates the tree’s “reactions” and “moods” into speech, tweets and SMS. A local visual engine also provides lights and sounds based on people’s presence
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