Togetherville : Facebook for Kids

Although Facebook has rules prohibiting the registration of membership under 13 years old, could have children under the age of falsified identity. The reason? Maybe out of curiosity or influence of friends. In fact, Facebook contains many dangerous and not worthy of the content they see.

This is where the role of parents is required. It's good, they introduce children to the virtual world and also guide how to socialize via the networking site.

Togetherville facilitate those needs. This networking site designed specifically for children up to age 13 years, despite the focus on target customers range 60-10 years.

Similar to Facebook, this site has a variety of entertaining and educational content, like applications, games, and video. Of course, everything is through the screening process so that children are safe for consumption.

To join Togetherville, a child must be registered by the parents via Facebook. Children can not arbitrarily ask for or accept friendship invitations from other children without parents consent.

To be more secure, this site knows no anonymity, such as the use of nickname and avatar. Profile must contain full name and original photos. In essence, the child protection Togetherville support, while the child's activity would be fully supervised by a parent.

According to the New York Times, the idea of making a special social networking blaze on the brain child Mandeep Dhillon (founder and CEO Togetherville), several years ago.

Zoraver, four-year-old son when it already knew how to capture images through his father's computer. Zoraver and wanted to share the photo to her family via Facebook, but do not allow Dhillon. He worried about his son influenced the adverse effects of social networking.

"Based on that experience, I developed the concept Togetherville," concluded Dhillon.

India : Tablet PC Worth U.S. $35

If Nicholas Negroponte popular with the OLPC program (One Laptop per Child) by offering a laptop costing U.S. $ 100 then the country of India was not to be outdone by their Tablet PC products that cost just U.S. $ 35. How could it be as cheap as this?

iPad could be one of the gadget "hottest" current which does offer a different experience in accessing digital content in mobile even though its price is still relatively expensive. Similar technologies and products which have a more complete feature comes via a Tablet PC that actually has a well attended despite the lack of public acclaim.

Average of the two products are not exactly cheap (USD 4 million or more) so that many potential customers are delaying buying it. Later there similar technology gadgets and production from China are offered at a price much cheaper even though its quality is still questionable.

But step by India this time is totally different where they present a gadget that resembles the iPad or a Tablet PC with incredible affordable price, only U.S. $ 35. If converted to the amount of about USD 300-thousand, the price of fee that is unreasonable.


AllGo Embedded Sysems producing Tablet PC is mentioned that the cost of these products include processor ARM9 U.S. $ 5, 2GB memory of U.S. $ 3, WiFi b / g U.S. $ 4, a battery of U.S. $ 5, touch screen 800x480 pixels U.S. $ 15, and other components of U.S. $ 3.

HRD Minister of India, Shri Kapil Sibal, is proud to introduce the Tablet PC production in India is the second semester of this year and also held a subsidy program so that students in India can buy this device at a price of U.S. $ 20 only. This step is aimed at disseminating knowledge on information technology students.

Judging from the specs offered themselves clearly spelled Tablet PC is very limited. After all, nearly 8500 such colleges during initial launch order.

Piano's Silhouette MP3 player Model

So, what can you do in those days to make a simple MP3 player a little more interesting? Of course almost any design variations that may have been tried. Well, not quite. Jia Peng designers have a new level of interaction between players by putting a roll-out, 48-key keyboard in his book Piano Silhouette proposed the concept of MP3 players.

Technology merger of two elements of this music is predicted to explode in the music world, because the concepts are new and menarik.Hal this could be a very niche market, but there are some beginner pianist with a piano keyboard easy to carry around a neat portable deep inside is There MP3 player because it will not have it? Of course, the roll-out of the plastic is soft piano keyboard has been around for a while now, but still the piece seriously entertaining and portable learning aid for wannabe Pete Johnson, Oscar Peterson and Maria Yudina be.

The inclusion of such a piano in a 4.72 x 1.77 MP3 Player technologies are not just some ivory-tickling user tactile interactions in the privacy of their own earphones, but also allows them to enjoy even inspire a few songs and maybe even a piano lesson audio. His approach has certainly played a designer is not much detail about things like memory and support for file formats, but there are bright LCD screen, control and selection of song playback, the audio jack on one end and a mini-USB-on the other side.

Personally, I've always wanted to learn piano, so I'd be interested in giving this a whirl. Its rather large dimensions, however, would make it a touch less portable than, say, an iPod Nano.