Game company THQ has announced a tablet to let Nintendo Wii users draw and share games. This could open the door to a lot of creativity-based games in the future. While technology aided art isn’t new, this could be a fun addition to your video games line up.

THQ will ship uDraw Studio bundled with uDraw GameTablet at a price of $70 (Rs. 3,260 approx.) by the end of the year. The other two games – Pictionary and Dood’s Big Adventure will arrive at the same time for $30 (Rs. 1,400 approx.) each. These games would be available in Europe and other countries by early next year.

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Here is the trailer for the soon to be released tablet:

Creativity based play is important for a child’s development, and while the Nintendo Wii is more a game system than an art studio this tablet can still help to aid in creative play.

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Most girls growing up had a Barbie (or a million) and in honor of the plastic diva, the Indianapolis Children’s Museum has had an ongoing exhibit featuring the doll’s many varied fashions.

Open since December 2009, Barbie(TM): The Fashion Experience has been among the most popular exhibits at the museum. Expected to welcome more than 1 million museum visitors during the 14 months it will be open, Barbie(TM): The Fashion Experience allows families to explore the different roles involved with putting on a real life runway show and learn how fashion is a reflection of art, design, and popular culture.

"Partnering with Mattel to create this much-anticipated exhibit has been a wonderful experience," said Dr. Jeffrey H. Patchen, president and CEO of The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. "Barbie has the power to spark multi-generational conversations encouraging families to spend time together, share memories and learn about the art of collecting."

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The often controversial toy has remained popular since it’s inception in 1959 and has manages to deliver that same popularity throughout the years it’s been available.  Through many different careers, talents, and controversies it’s still been a top seller for girls. 

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The popular latest craze amongst kids is being panned by many adults, while others (myself included) just don’t get the trend (really, they are just elastics).  While not getting it is a bit different than banning them, as many community areas and schools are doing, in an attempt to avoid issues with trading gone wrong.

Yet, others are saying that the trend is outright bad or a kid’s health.  These critics have brought the panning of the bracelets to a whole new level, and others may be starting to agree with them.

Dr. Gregory Simonian, chief of endovascular surgery and director of the Heart Vascular Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center, told me that his daughter also wears Silly Bandz, and that Dr. Manny could be on to something.

“Whether it’s tight bracelets or a ring on your finger, anything that is constricting could cause vascular insufficiency—meaning the blood flow is being altered by some external force. In this case, it’s the new, hip rubber bracelets,” Simonian said.

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Are the bracelets dangerous? Or maybe, these new concerns about them are just another factor of us adults just not getting it.

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The Campbell’s owned SpaghettiOs has issued a recall of 15 million pounds of it’s popular meatball variety of canned meals.  Thankfully, there has been no reported illness and the recall was issues soon after the problem was discovered by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.

The United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service recalled over 15 million pounds of the canned meal today, including the following:

• *SpaghettiOs with Meatballs, with the product code "U5" on the bottom
• *SpaghettiOs A to Z with Meatballs with the code "4N" on the bottom
• *SpaghettiOs Fun Shapes with Meatballs (Cars) with the product code "KS" on the bottom

The recall comes on the heels of a normal inspection that has found the meat in the meatballs to be undercooked to meet guidelines.  The affected cans have a production date of December 2008 and June 2010, with use by dates falling between June 2010 and December 2011. If you have any of the above named products, you can return them to the store they were purchased at for a full refund.

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The latest craze to hit kids, Silly Bands (an elastic bracelet that comes in different shapes) has been experiencing some trouble in schools.  Many educators are calling the fad a distraction, and have been banning them from being worn to school.

Many parents are thinking that this is just another silly thing, especially with all the overzealous bans over children’s fads over the past years.  Many just think that the Silly Bandz (that retail at about $5 for a pack of 24), are just another craze that will more than likely be over relatively soon.

So, what exactly made the baubles bannable?

Students fiddle with them during class and arrange swaps – trading, say, a bracelet with a mermaid for one with a dragon – when they should be concentrating on schoolwork, teachers say. Sometimes a trade goes bad – kids get buyer’s remorse too – and hard feelings, maybe even scuffles, ensue.

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What do you think?  It is just another ban that is plain silly, or do the schools have a point?

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