It is never too early to be teaching your young ones the value of money. Teach them to save at young age, and here is the right thing to use just for that. A coin box. Not just any ordinary coin box, but a coin box that helps keep track of the amount of coins your child already inserted through the coin slot.

The counter can track up to $999.99. To take the money out, just twist the top open. Requires 2 AA batteries. Cost about $10. Great item as a gift.
There are plenty of quality toy laptop for kids to help them learn the alphabet and also to handle a computer. However, most if not all of them only has small pixel screen which the kids would after sometime realize that something is not the same like mom and dad’s computers.
Lexibook came up with a kid friendly laptop with a real windows operating system. My first windows computer. Orange coloured, most probably considered as a neutral colour accepted by both boys and girls.

* Windows CE 5.0 operating system
* Samsung 400MHz processor
* 8″ display at 800 x 400 resolution
* 64MB RAM
* 2GB SSD
* Two USB 2.0 ports
* Ethernet connectivity
* SD memory card reader
It’s available at amazon.co.uk for £199.99. Rather on the pricey end I suppose. I wonder whether they would come up with other colours later on.
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Posted in Cute cool gadgets on November 11th, 2008
These days, there are many ways of which a person may use to keep important data outside of their main computers. Some people prefer to keep them online - so they would be able access them anywhere and anytime; in tape drives, in thumb drives - for small sized data, and also a portable external hard drives - for larger data. But wouldn’t you love to carry up to 120 GB of data around in your wallet? If you do, check out Samsung’s 1.8″ hard drive. Small enough to be carried in your wallet.

It comes in 40GB, 60GB, 80GB and 120 GB. It is USB powered and thus makes it quite an energy saving product.
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Posted in Cute cool gadgets on November 9th, 2008
Hello Kitty has been around longer than I. More than 30 years and yet her popularity is still going strong. Now Seiko has come up with it’s new Hello Kitty alarm clock to wake you up in the mornings. So cute it is, might help you get over with your morning ‘crankiness’.


It is not out in the market just yet. But it will be, somewhere in November. You might want to pre-order and be the first ones to own this cute alarm clock.
Cost about $49 when you pre-order at Geekstuff4u.com. Christmas is less than two months away. Would make a great alarm clock wouldn’t you think? 
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Posted in Cute cool gadgets on November 9th, 2008
REI Evangelion 4GB usb flash drive just got available for orders last month in October. And now Buffalo has added 2 more Anime characters USB to make a collection. Lupin the third and Gundam.




In a glance, one would think these are just ordinary toys wouldn’t they?
[source = akihabaranews.com]
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Posted in Cute cool gadgets on November 6th, 2008