Kid-Tested: Three Projectile Weapons for Indoor Warfare
Editor’s note: Zing Toys sent us several boxes of its newest office weapons this week. We took advantage of “Take Our Children to Work Day” to kid-test the toys with the children of various Wired employees. These are their unedited reactions. Z-X Crossbow ($26) “I think it’s awesome and I really want it. It shoots hecka far and it sticks to stuff.”...
Read MoreToo Much Screen Time Causes Attention Problems in Class, Study Says
Filed under: Video Games, TVThe latest study on the way technology affects our youth claims that too much time in front of a screen translates into trouble focusing in the classroom. According to the Des Moines Register, an Iowa State University team studied the academic performance of elementary and college students, and found that kids who sat in front of a screen for more than two hours each...
Read MoreHere We Go! Mario Marathon Ends in Day Five, and Raises $81K for Kids
Filed under: Video Games Usually, if you play video games for over 100 hours straight, people call you an addict, and ship you off to a rehab center. But for the past three years, three guys from Indiana have gotten away with just such an event (without being institutionalized) -- all in the name of charity. Once a year, Brian Brinegar, John Groth and Chris Deckard take up residence in front of a...
Read MoreStudents Take Space Photos With Simple Latex Balloon and Digi-Cam
Filed under: Cameras, Digital Camera Who needs the Hubble? Not Gerard Marull Paretas, Sergi Saballs Vila, Marta Gasull Morcillo and Jaume Puigmiquel Casamort, that's for sure.The four Spanish teenagers, working with their teacher Jordi Fanals Oriol as the Meteotek team at the IES La Bisbal school in Catalonia, started with a fairly lofty goal: They wanted to launch a balloon with a digital...
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