Franklin KID-1240 Children’s Talking Dictionary and Spell Corrector

• Complete talking childrens dictionary with 44,000 words/Phonetic spell correction
• Interactive rhyme finder/Speaks letters and words and definitions
• Personal spelling word list/5 games, variable skill levels
• Confusables feature identifies and explains sound alike words allowing you to select the right word
• Animated guide models pring and cursive, repeats with the touch of a button

Franklin Electronic Publishers Childrens Talking Dictionary with Spell Corrector

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List Price: $ 59.99

Price: $ 33.33

If you do not know something then the first place we go is the internet. The web has spawned a language of its own. By understanding this language, one is able to gain knowledge on topics very quickly.

The web has created a cause to shorten words or phrases unnecessarily. There is a commonly genetic need in society to always make things faster. The time that is actually saved in this reduction of language is be used to shorten more words. It really is a vicious cycle. Even a popular search engine, used to find websites on things such as forex indicator, is also now a verb in the dictionary.

Even the old land-line ways that we use to communicate with are going the way of the dodo. Technology is advancing as fast and it is bringing the world closer together. Everything is different because the web came into being. More people that did not have voices before can now be heard.

Emails have made letter writing old fashioned and virtually unheard of. Children are learning how to use computers at the same time they are learning to read and write, and can often times use them better than their parents before they enter school. Before you know it, the elementary school children will be giving adults asset protection tips, and stock tips!

Much of the net is being cluttered with different ways to shop. Also the internet is being consumed by video games. Then there are the social networking sites that combine everything into one place including being able to send your buddy a message. These sites are really paving a way for consumer desired services.

Anything can be found on online now. The prices of different items can now be compared between competitors in an instant. Computer workstation furniture prices can be compared, and then purchased and shipped to the home. Video stores at one time were on nearly every corner. Now the brick and mortar is going the way of the dinosaur and moving to the web.

As we rely more and more on the net for everything that we do, there is a price we could pay for that kind of dependence. Massive catastrophes can cause local outages that can virtually cut us off from the rest of the world. Luckily, many corporations are equipped with generators just for this kind of emergency. Think of all the net has become and just boggle at what is to come in the future.

If you kiddies’ birthday is coming up soon and you are not sure what to get them this year, here are some suggestions for cool gifts for kids. One thing that the kids are going to love is the Lego Digital Camera. With a price of 50 pounds, it is not the cheapest gift for your kid but he deserves a surprise now and then. The Lego Digital Camera has all the features of a regular camera, except that it looks more fun and… childish. It has a 3 megapixel camera and a 4x digital zoom.

The 1.5 inch LCD is going to allow you to look the photos that you are taking or have already taken and stored. The internal memory of the Lego Digital Camera is 128 MB which is enough to store approximately 80 photos. You also get a data transfer cable so you download all these pictures on your PC or laptop. The lithium-ion battery is rechargeable so you don’t have to spend money and change the batteries all the time. Of course, some of the blocks on this camera come off so you can use them in the other Lego structures. How lovely is that!



One of the games I loves to play when I was a child was Hangman. My mother used to play it with me all the time because she thought it was a funny way to stimulate my vocabulary. I was always looking for “impossible” words to play with my mom who is like a walking and living dictionary. This is why I think that the 3D Hangman can be listed under cool gifts for kids. You get the man and a noose, just like you do in the regular drawing.  All the body parts are attached magnetically to one another and you also get a notepad with the letters of the alphabet and a white board. It can be all your for 10 pounds.

I don’t know if you kids have even wanted one, but I know that Tamagochi was a regular trend some 10 years ago. Every kid on the block has one of those virtual pets that you had to feed and walk and put to sleep or else it got sick and eventually died. Well, instead of a key-chain-size little Tamagochi, you can now get a robot guinea pig. Ok, it does cost 40 pounds but look how cute he is! His name is Gupi and he will interact with your child just like a real pet. He becomes happy when he gets special attention and he will get upset if you ignore him. He reacts to sounds and will even interact with his environment.

This means that he can walk around the house without bumping into things. The toy carrot that comes with the cool robot is his source of food and you must remember to feed him. Gupi and the carrot both work with batteries. Oh, and one other thing. Gupi will interact with other Gupis so let the party start (yes, they also share food).

With all the flaws that e-book readers have, they don’t seem to be going away anytime soon. VTech, makers of fine educational electronics, are rolling out the Flip animated e-book reader, so now, your kids can get in on the action too.

I always loved to read as a kid, so on family trips I’d bring a backpack stuffed with Hardy Boys paperbacks. The Flip is aimed at bit lower age group with the animated touch screen and read-along feature, but it does allow parents to bring dozens of books in a fraction of the space.

It features various word games and a dictionary feature to teach kids how to read, as well as downloadable content. The aren’t a huge number of “books” available, most being various Disney or Pixar characters, but the device hasn’t even launched yet.

Units will be available this August at $59.99 a pop, with the e-books running at $19.99.