Category Archives: Kids

A show to “graduate” a toddler from watching TV back to real life

Posted on November 21, 2017 by gemmell

So my 3 year old hates it when we turn the TV off. It’s like we’ve turned off the drug supply and she totally wigs out. My older daughter was the same at age 3. I would like to have … Continue reading →

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Story booking via Google Voice & Google Image Search

Posted on March 14, 2017 by gemmell

This is a pretty simple idea that uses a hell of a lot of tech. It’s an app for phones & tablets. Basically you tell a story, like “once upon a time there was a big bad wolf”, and it … Continue reading →

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ToyBoxPlayMat

Posted on January 8, 2014 by gemmell

So there’s two variations to this, one is a circular playmat that has a cord running around the outside, you simply lift up the by the cord and it collapses the playmat into a “sack”. The second is a rectangular … Continue reading →

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A slashdot like site that is news for teens that doesn’t pray on their insecurities and actually tries to enrich their lives through understanding.

Posted on April 11, 2013 by gemmell

In the book “Raising Girls” the author says that marketing intentionally makes teenage girls feel insufficient and that they need to go out and buy XYZ, or look like ABC. So I’d like to create a site which helps teenagers … Continue reading →

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Baby Grows Too Fast Clothes Subscription

Posted on August 25, 2012 by gemmell

This idea is a little like our idea for having a clothing subscription for people who are too busy or lazy to go out and buy clothes, but still want some reasonably fashionable things to wear. Except this is for … Continue reading →

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Fighting Fantasy Books as eBooks

Posted on May 9, 2011 by gemmell

I think the “Fighting Fantasy” books which I grew up with could make a pretty big come back in the eBook era – essentially they become a text based game. The issue become being able to run it on the … Continue reading →

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Microphone games and TV experience

Posted on July 6, 2010 by gemmell

This is AAF’s idea. He was toying with the joys of having a microphone hooked up to a pair of headphones. Essentially the conversation started with this, but we quickly discovered that a cool kids game might be to actually … Continue reading →

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