educational
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Fisher-Price’s New Toys Will Teach Your Kids About the Glory of ’80s Gadgets
Want your infant to grow up and appreciate what a technological marvel a touchscreen tablet really is? Fisher-Price has revealed three additions to its preschool learning line: new educational toys inspired by retro gadgets of the ‘80s and ‘90s that will let parents teach their kids what life was like before streaming services and 3D…
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LEGO’s Newest Sets Leverage The World’s Most Popular Toy To Teach Kids Braille
A couple of years ago, design agency Lew’LaraTBWA created a set of LEGO-like bricks that used the plastic stubs to recreate the patterns that make up the braille alphabet. It was such a clever way to help encourage blind or visually impaired children to learn braille that LEGO is officially releasing its own Braille Bricks…
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You Can Build This Creepy, Crawly Robotic Centipede Yourself, And Then Stomp It Back To Hell
Designing robots that emulate how creatures move and walk helps us not only understand the world around us, but also improve how automatons of the future will get around. But on the other hand, that same research has given birth to this creepy centipede robot toy that squirms around on 18 flailing legs like a…
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Chemistry Should Only Be Taught Using Gorgeous Microscopic Footage Of Chemical Reactions
Video: Hands-on experiments can make studying chemistry slightly more enjoyable, but the bulk of the learning usually comes from a massive and boring textbook. Maybe the world would have more aspiring chemists if classes were instead taught using these microscopic videos of chemical reactions happening right before your eyes.