At the grocery store today, I saw the ever-present mountains of soda. This time of year, they are covered in halloween decorations, but usually they encourage you to throw a football party or celebrate March Madness. The pile that caught my eye consisted of Pepsi products which, I will admit, I enjoy from time to time. Today there was a new box – a retro looking beverage called Pepsi-Cola Throwback. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read the fine print: the cool thing about Throwback is that it is made with natural sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup!  Read the rest of this post...

Welcome to the world of special agents MySims style. That’s right, the successful line of MySims games from EA just added a new Wii game called MySims Agents to the MySims family today. The story behind Agents is fun and exciting as you take on the role of a secret agent assigned to foil the plots of Morcubus, the evil CEO of MorcuCorp. As you work your way through the beautifully styled scenes in the game, you search for clues and interrogate suspects in an effort to solve a gamut of cases from who stole a little girl’s dog to what the evil Morcubus is really up to. With each case you crack, you unlock all different types of new items ranging from cool secret agent outfits to your own private jet. And, you’re not on your own in this crime-solving world. As you become more experienced as an agent, you get your own headquarters building that you get to decorate and fill with new agents that you recruit to help you in your fight against Morcubus. Here’s a short producer walkthrough of MySims Agents from IGN.com:  Read the rest of this post...

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...