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Leapfrog came up with the latest gadget for the toddlers. The Baby Blackberry or as Leapfrog calls it “Text & Learn”. I think BabyBerry would sound good – Just like the ObamaBerry.

They unveiled the new toy at the U.K Toy Fair last month. The toy is targeted for the little toddlers who seem to be unable to stay away from mommy and daddy’s smartphones.

Sized slightly bigger than the real Blackberry, the toy comes with games that teaches to spell and basic computer skills. That’s it. Nope, I don’t think it can really send messages or make calls to other babyberries.

Will be available in summer for $25.

[source : Cnet news]

I have tried Atkins diet some years ago. I liked it. I lost weight quite quickly. My only complaint was how difficult it was to figure out how much of carbohydrate a food contains. As you may know, that Atkins is a diet that promotes low carbohydrate and high protein diet. I am not nutritionist so most of the time I just guessed.

Now that problem may be a thing of the past. Just use Cesto Portable Nutrition Scale. It can, of course, weight food, but also count the calories, carbohydrate, fat, protein and even salt it contains.

All you need to do is put the food on the scale (duh) – even liquids – and key in the food code which you can find on the manual. It stores up to 999 types of food information. Unless the food you eat can only be found in Mars, I believe what ever food you eat, the information would probably be in there.

It comes in black, gray and red, available from scalesetc.com for $59.95. Scalesetc.com is a supplier for a variety of food scales. So get yourself one of these Nutrition scales as your weight loss program investment.

I recently have tried a new Nintendo DS lite game. Well, it is not exactly a game but ebooks. “100 Classical books collection” for Nintendo DS. It was released end of last year.

Imagine carrying along with you a small library of 100 hundred classical books. Minus the weight and the space consuming shapes of an ordinary book. Brilliant eh? You don’t have to spend hundreds of dollars to buy for an ebook reader now.

Use the DS stylus to scroll for the books that you are looking for. Or you can search alphabetically for the Author ofrthe title. Once you’ve located the particular book, touch on it.

You can flip the pages back and forth just by sliding the stylus to the right or left. Or even tap left to flip back or right to flip forward. They even include the sound of a real page flipping when you flip the pages.

You can even set whether you are a right handed person or a left handed person. If you are a right handed person as most of us are, the touchscreen will be on the right hand side, while if you are a left handed person it will be on your left side. Well, obviously you will just need to rotate the DS.

Besides being able to read the books, other features that I love is that they even provide with information about the book and also about the author of the book.

Also, there are background sound so you can create an ambiance that will transport yourself to a location that you want while reading. You can choose no background sound for silent reading, classical music, relaxing music, sound of the stream- you will hear the sound of a moving stream, sound by the beach- waves, even the sound from the airport and much more.

You want to stop reading for  a while? Just use the bookmark. You can use up to 3 bookmarks for 3 different pages.

Finally, there is a wifi function that enables you to download more books. This I have not tried since I do not know how to set up my wifi.  Too bad. But 100 books is good enough for a year of two of reading won’t they?

Below is a list of Authors and titles in the collection:

I think it is a really great idea that we can read books using our DS. I hope the idea wont stop here. Perhaps they would develop more so we can even read other kind of books besides these classical books.