Dadjunk

This electronics kit requires no soldiering and is a perfect way to introduce kids to electronics. The components are designed to be snapped together with small magnets to make all kinds of contraptions and devices.  The $129 starter kit includes a button, potentiometer, a pressure sensor, LED light, a vibration motor and more. Young inventors [...]

Saturday’s performance was meant to be the culmination of a full week of workshops, rehearsals, and set preparation at Stagecoach Theater Camp. The costumes were ready, the kids knew their lines, songs were memorized, blocking locked down. Friends and relatives cleared their schedules for performance day. Everyone was ready to break a leg – until [...]

  Smartphones are great. Their built-in cameras enable parents to capture video and photos of things that we normally wouldn’t have the ability to capture. Think of all the first steps, words, and cute moments that have would have otherwise been left unphotographed or unrecorded. Thanks to smartphones, babies born today are the most documented [...]

A couple of years ago, I was building stuff from paper towel and toilet paper tubes with my two kids, then 3 and 4. We assembled a bunch of random sculptures using tape, scissors, and lots of glue, then I had a light-bulb moment, “If only there was a way to easily connect these things.” [...]

Now that the school year is fully in swing, and all the “What did you do this summer?” show and tell conversations have been had, I’d like to tell you a little bit about a fake summer camp that I created this summer for my two kids who were going through a rather intensive boundary [...]

When fashion designers want to add some surf sensibility into their collection, they often just throw in a couple of Hawaiian prints and palm trees. But not Proenza Schouler. For their latest collection, the designing outfit collaborated with Ken Trinder, the surfboard specialist from the Shire Board Company, to create a surfboard that is also a work of [...]

Let me just start with the fact that I really like my Kindle. But using it in public in New York City can sometimes be rather uncomfortable. Usually, my rare burst of “free reading” time gets sucked up by some curious passerby asking me if I like my Kindle. I’d like to reply, “Yes, I like [...]