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The children's toys that burst to life with your smartphone or tablet through the magic of augmented reality... thanks to Liverpool based startup SwapBotsAlthough we have written before about how augmented reality can be used for educational purposes, it is also undeniably a great medium for play. Taking advantage of this fact, SwapBots is a game played in augmented reality using physical, c...
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GoHenry - Money management for kids thanks to this innovative startup which offers a pre-paid, pocket-money Card and app with unique parental controls, for young people aged 6 to 18... Money habits, whether good or bad, are learned as young as seven years old. Children, understandably, have no grasp of the imaginary, man-made concept of monetary value. This is why children can rack up massive bil...
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BleepBleeps - The lowdown on the startup that's creating innovative connected products to make the art of parenting easier! Raising children is like a very good analogy for something difficult. They need food and drink and clothes and you have to talk to them and be nice and it’s exhausting. Getting the little angels to do do what they’re supposed to - like sleep or brush their teeth ...
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Koru Kids - the London based startup that's providing the perfect childcare solution for modern families with affordable, convenient after-school and nanny care. Raising children is not an easy task from any angle. While many new parents and expecting parents-to-be think about things such as whether they are in a good school district, whether they are making enough money to support a child, and h...
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In a world that revolves around computers as much as the sun, interest in coding is not what it could be. People - particularly children - want to play the games made by coding, use the phones that programming makes possible, and try to get around the programming that stops Siri swearing; they’re less interested in actually learning the if() statements and the...you know, the other ones that...
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Keeping your children from seeing inappropriate content online is not an easy task. The internet is not designed to help you with this, and the implementation of child safety features, age verification, age classification, etc., is ineffective. Things sneak past the filters, the adverts that play on an age-appropriate video might not themselves be appropriate, and those tasked with keeping childre...
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Let’s face it - online reviews and ratings are pretty important to most of us these days. Whether we want to check out other people’s opinions of a particular restaurant or what the general consensus is on the latest blockbuster movie, it’s become the norm to do a little online research in advance of committing either our money or our time. Of course there are lots of online res...
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Words. Perhaps we could insert some kind of eloquent, almost poetic sentiment here about how words do stuff and things and are good; however, we didn’t have the benefit of learning from London-based EdTech startup Mrs Wordsmith (not to be confused with Mr Swordsmith, we were mildly disappointed to discover). The team behind Mrs Wordsmith includes professors of linguistics, lecturers in...
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If you’re a parent, chances are you’re always on the lookout for new things to do with the kids - whether it’s at weekends or advance planning for the summer ahead. It’s easy to go down the same old same old route, but then it’s likely that you’ll be missing out on lots of new and interesting things that can keep your little darlings occupied. Of course, finding...
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If you’re a parent of a young child, you’ll know only too well how challenging it can sometimes be to keep them entertained and occupied. No matter how hard you try, it’s not always easy to find new and fun activities for your kids to do. However, that need no longer be the case, thanks to our latest Startup of the Week. Trunkaroo is a subscription service aimed at kids aged be...
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