Tag: learning

  • BBC Micro Bit Mini PC Delayed Until 2016

    BBC Micro Bit Mini PC Delayed Until 2016

    The BBC are recently reviving and old ancient relationship which the corporation once had with computing. A long, long time ago, when computers were strange boxes filled with scary magic and command lines, the BBC put out the original BBC Micro computer. It was pretty big by our standards, but back then people were obviously […]

  • EA Exec Says Games Too Hard To Learn

    EA Exec Says Games Too Hard To Learn

    When new players pick up a games console for the first time, often it’s a bit of a hard learning curve to catch up with the impressive skills of players who have been born and raised on games. For those of us who have tried to teach our parents to play, it really goes to […]

  • LeapFrog to Launch LeapTV Games Console for Kids

    LeapFrog to Launch LeapTV Games Console for Kids

    Kiddy-friendly tech company LeapFrog has made the list of Hamley’s must have Christmas toys with a brand new educational video games console called LeapTV. Resembling a hybrid of Nintendo Wii U and Microsoft’s motion sensing Kinect, LeapTV will launch in October with a strong line-up of popular telly and film franchises lending their names and likenesses […]

  • Star Trek’s Geordi La Forge Hosts Child-Friendly Reading Rainbow App on Apple iPad

    Star Trek’s Geordi La Forge Hosts Child-Friendly Reading Rainbow App on Apple iPad

    From its sci-fi roots on Star Trek: The Next Generation, the iPad once again returns to the trusted hands of visor-wearing Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge – or at least his real-life alter ego LeVar Burton, who appears in his very own app which is aimed at encouraging kids into using the Apple tablet for […]

  • REEL TO REAL ► Prometheus Viral Surfaces – Androids Will Walk Among Us!

    REEL TO REAL ► Prometheus Viral Surfaces – Androids Will Walk Among Us!

    The awesome new trailer for Prometheus has dropped this week and the Ridley Scott directed precursor to his 1979 classic Alien is shaping up to be one of the spectacles of cinema in 2012. The film will reference events and themes which are “yet-to-come” in the movie timeline and one of those themes, as we’ve […]

  • Netflix Cuts the Smut with “Just for Kids” Service – Available Now on Playstation 3

    Netflix Cuts the Smut with “Just for Kids” Service – Available Now on Playstation 3

    NetFlix is off to a good start having kicked off little over a month ago in the UK, as a competitor to the long-established and Brit-based LoveFilm. Now to cater to the school holiday market NetFlix has opened up a separate section of its subscription service for Playstation 3 owners, dedicated to good clean fun […]