Kids have long enjoyed creating sticker books and now Disney Publishing has developed a virtual sticker book. The “Princess Dress-Up: My Sticker Book App” is available for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad from Apple’s App Store. The app enables girls to dress up Disney Princesses using virtual stickers. They can change everything in the princesses’ attire from their satin gowns to their sparkly tiaras. Girls can also upload a personal photo, and see themselves transformed into Cinderella, Ariel, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Jasmine or Belle. Then they can add a princess outfit and send the photo to family and friends. All the princesses can take part in a delightful princess story that comes complete with professional narration and lilting Disney Princess music.
Fun and Function (www.funandfunction.com) is an online resource targeting families of children with special needs, particularly sensory processing disorders, ADHD and autism. The company offers an exclusive line of playful and therapeutic products featuring language and social skills games, clothing and weighted accessories, scooters, balance toys and other products to help kids feel good and achieve their best. The site was founded by a pediatric occupational therapist whose own daughter was diagnosed with a sensory disorder. All the products at Fun and Function are affordable, washable, well-made and fun for kids. Free specialist advice is available for parents who may be struggling to understand the needs of their children and which products can help them thrive. Fun and Function has also created a virtual community of parents, therapists and educators who support each other with ideas for coping with the day-to-day challenges of raising children with disabilities.
The Toshiba EasyGuard system is focused on security, protection, connectivity and manageability, with a particular emphasis on the requirements of the corporate world. Owners of EasyGuard equipped laptops can worry less about data loss or theft. Selected models of Toshiba Satellite Pro, Tecra and Portégé laptops are equipped with Easy Guard’s Fingerprint-Reader which allows Single Sign On, giving users fast and convenient authentication for all system passwords. EasyGuard has an Advanced Encryption feature to protect sensitive data using encryption and digital signature. Toshiba laptops also have the capacity to secure specific devices and ports to prevent illegal access and copying of confidential and private documents. For help to control the threats from worms and viruses, EasyGuard’s Execute Disable Bit feature deactivates malicious code before it can damage the operating system. And to keep real world accidents from causing data loss, selected Toshiba models come with Solid State Drives (SSD) that resist damage from shock, vibration and extreme temperature and new spill-resistant keyboards give the user time to close any files or safely shut down the laptop if liquid is spilled into the PC.
From MultiTouch Limited comes the world’s first large-scale multitouch, multi-user Twitter wall application. Ideally suited for large public events, the MultiTouch Twitter Wall automatically pools together and visualizes the “buzz” of an event, offering a real-time collaboration platform which engages users tweeting from mobile devices. As many users as can physically fit simultaneously in front of the MultiTouch Twitter Wall can use the wall. The MultiTouch Twitter Wall consists of at least six MultiTouch Cell 46 Advanced displays, 46-inches wide, in a three by two configuration that visually displays tweets from selected hashtags and keywords. Users of the MultiTouch Twitter Wall can open tweets, represented on a rotating sphere, by touching a profile image and moving, or resizing the tweet on the display. The MultiTouch Twitter Wall offers alternate views on the spheres, which enable images from Flickr to be displayed, searchable with a keyword, as well. Using Panphonics Sound Shower directional loudspeakers, the MultiTouch Twitter Wall can further engage users with positional audio from tweets and other content displayed.
