It doesn't always have to be an app.

A young designer from Eindhoven has created these beautiful toys to be used in hospitals to explain procedures to children. His toys contain the 4 most commonly used pieces of medical equipment: X-ray, CT-scan, ECG and an echocardiograph. Each machine has light and sound so the kids get a pretty good idea of what is going to happen to them. Now all he needs is a business angel to finance him. (copyright Hikaru Imamura, Fast Company)

#BGGD49 was a long time coming

It's been a while so we welcome back with open arms the next #BGGD49 on Children's Internet Safety, with main speaker Simone van Zuylen (@Norton_be). There's room for a 100 interested parties and when I last checked, the list wasn't full yet. So join the BGG's next week on February 8th in Mechelen. Should be an interesting topic. I for one do not believe in technical solutions for things like safe chat or controled environments; I can only talk for my teenage son who, as a rule, only uses his laptop in the living room and is fairly smart in the way he uses the web. Should be an interesting discussion, next week.

To be a little kid again ...

It's not as if I have an iPad or plan to buy me one any day soon but even die-hard Apple-bashers have to admit that these tools bring out the best in some publishers.

Imagine working for Penguin Books' interactive division and be able to create this stuff. 3D Pop-up books for the iPad.  This is soooo cute. Enjoy!