What kind af gadget is out there that’s similar 2 the iPod touch but less expensive?
Question by Miss Moon: What kind af gadget is out there that’s similar 2 the iPod touch but less expensive?
My friend has a 4 year old girl that wants an ipod touch but only to play with it. I would like to get her something similar to the ipod touch but not as expensive nor with all the technology it has. Any suggestions?
Best answer:
Answer by Jamie M
You mean for like, games? Then get her a DS. They come in Pink and theres a whole bunch of mindless minigame type games she’ll love it 
I was gonna reccommend the Samsung Yp-P3, but that doesn’t have many games on it XD
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Madison Company’s Technology Estimates Travel Times
Madison Company’s Technology Estimates Travel Times
MADISON, Wis — Over this Memorial Day weekend, many drivers will likely face delays. But a Madison company is using technology to estimate travel times for motorists.
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Unplugged: Connecting with the past and present without technology
What was I doing without the Internet? Reading “Huckleberry Finn” to my 9-year-old son, snuggling with my 7-year-old daughter and bathing my 3-year-old girl. History – United States – Dog – Technology – Recreation
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Technology: The rivalry between Apple and Microsoft
Interactive graphic on IT rivals Apple and Microsoft, as Apple, maker of the iPod, iPhone and iPad, overtakes the software giant as the world’s biggest technology firm in terms of market value for the first time.
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Apparently ‘Huge Numbers’ of Birth Parents are Hunting Adopted Children Online
Trend story or bona fide trend? The Guardian reports that the birth parents of adopted children are flocking to Facebook to locate and contact their descendants. The article claims that, at least in the U.K., two-thirds of adopted children are removed from their birth parents due to abuse or neglect; and now “huge numbers” of adoptive parents are reporting that their children are being contacted by those birth parents via Facebook.
But, the article also acknowledges that “there are no reliable estimates of how many children have been contacted using social networking sites.” The writer cites a few examples, including a 16-year-old girl who received a message from her abusive biological mother that caused her to feel “a whole range of emotions.” Another boy met up with his birth father, who had physically abused him in the past, after the father contacted him through Facebook. Interestingly, the article doesn’t quote any of the reactions from the children themselves. (And yet its headline — “Adopted children face anguish as birth parents stalk them on Facebook” — would make you think otherwise.)
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Call of The Wild – 3D
- ISBN13: 0883476011554
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
A modern-day adaptation of Jack London s classic follows Ryann (Ariel Gade) a 9-year old girl visiting her grandfather (Christopher Lloyd) in Montana. When a wild hybrid wolf/dog shows up injured on the back porch one night, Ryann wants to take him back to Boston as a pet, but her grandfather knows the animal will eventually have to return to the wild. To help his granddaughter understand, he begins to read her Jack London’s Call of the Wild each night … but Ryann has ideas of her own, and helps a local boy train the magnificent animal to become a sled dog leader.
Due to limited quantities, not all DVDs come with 3D glasses. Any pair of 3D glasses will work with this film.… More >>
Autom, the fat-fighting robot, is coming in 2010
You’ll recall that there was a bit of a buzz a few years ago about a fat-fighting robot named Autom designed to sit on your counter and convince you not to eat that last slice of pizza. Well, the old girl is almost ready for production and should be arriving next Fall.
Autom, in her first incarnation, looked a bit weird and was basically a fancy computer case. Now, however, this thing is like a fat-fighting Furby with expressive eyes and a cute little mouth that definitely wouldn’t ever eat the last slice of pie, unlike me.
The device works fairly well – I saw a prototype as well as some mechanical improvements – and apparently people become so attached to little robot friends that they forget that they’re actually on a diet. The retention for the average diet, for example, is three weeks. When Cory Kidd, the CEO of Intuitive Automata and creator of Autom gave the robot to dieters he found that they didn’t want to give her up and survived on a diet for eight weeks or more. Clearly we love little robots.
No pricing yet but Kidd explained that there will be a base price for the robot and a subscription price for back end services including monitoring and medical advice. You interact with the robot with a touchscreen but voice activated controls will soon be implemented.
No pricing yet, but look for a beta roll out later next year.