This past week, we received a LeapFrog Tag Reading System to test and review. As always, we were excited to check out a new product from LeapFrog. I mean, these guys have a great reputation and we’ve always been really satisfied with their products. So first off, what is the Tag Reading System. If nothing else, it is quite simply an amazing piece of technology that fits in the palm of your child’s hand. The “system” consists of a pen-shaped “reader” and specially encoded books. By touching various icons on the pages of the book with the tip of the “reader”, the device will either read the page aloud to your child or play an interactive game based on the current page in the book. In addition to that, everything on the page is touchable by the “reader” which provides great voices, sound effects, and music that go along with the picture that was touched. Your kids can even touch on an individual word on the page and hear it read back to them. You can drag the reader like a pen across the words on the page and it will read them slowly so your kids can hear each word individually if they want to. The 16MB system retails for $39.99, with a just-released 32 MB system retailing for $49.99. The books for the system retail for $13.99 each.  Read the rest of this post...

This past week, we received a copy of a new iPhone app from Kids Eat For. It’s a great application that helps you find “kids eat free” deals near you. I really love this app because the information in the application is community built by users. That means you’re always getting up to date information from real people who have actually found these deals for you. And, if you’re a user of the app, you’re part of that community too and can contribute deals that you find or know about. Kids Eat For is currently available in the iTunes store for $2.99.  And, even if you don’t have an iPhone, read on, Kids Eat For has something for everyone (hint: it’s a FREE website).  Read the rest of this post...

In anticipation of the upcoming re-release of Pixar’s Toy Story and Toy Story 2 in 3D on October 2 in theaters and the release of Toy Story 3 in June of 2010, the film’s director John Lasseter is releasing a series of seven videos promoting the new Toy Story Collection line of toys. This new toy line promises to deliver the “definitive” copy of the toys from the movie. In the videos, Lasseter will be profiling each character from the movie and telling some background, behind-the-scenes stories about each character too. Here’s are all seven videos in the series. I hope you enjoy them…we did!
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