Concept: School Chair for Kids

May 27th, 2009

kids-chair-and-scooter

With this amazing chair concept, kids would certainly like to go to school more often ;)

This little scooter easily transforms for into a school chair. I feel instead of attempting a $10 laptop, this is what the ministers should be promoting in rural areas!

Via The Design Blog

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Mobile Effect – Minute by Minute update kids!

February 26th, 2009

kids-culture

Kids addicted to their Mobile Phones is a common disease today! I can see it all around me. Texting as if its an IM; Phone calls as if its breath. I feel blessed that my generation had those communication barriers, it allowed us so much time for our selves. That wait for a friend who is on his way to visit me, that importance of a get together, the feeling of seeing people face to face and not chatting/talking over a network…

The cellphone has certainly tampered with teen culture. And this change certainly comes with a turbulence. Children getting their hands on a cellphone @ Age of 8 is certainly now an encouraging figure. Kids are stuck to their cellphones like honeybees. Over a family dinner but a outgoing message every 30secs. In a college lecture but still connected via SMS to a dozen people (often in the same class), left alone for a min and there they go on a call… (Remember the Spanish kids sent to mental institute to get rid of cellphone addiction?)

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Cellphone addicted Spanish Kids admitted to ‘Mental Health Institute’

June 14th, 2008

Ok the kids in the report arent that small - but :)
We still don’t know if Karnataka Govt’s plan to ban Mobile for Kids is justified, but here is a case where parents have sent their kids to a ‘Mental Health Institute’ just to treat their cellphone addiction. Apparently these two kids from Spain (aged 12 & 13) are so badly addicted to their mobiles that they have been lying to their relatives for money – only to spend it on their mobiles.

Dr Maite Utges, who runs the Child and Youth Mental Health Centre in Lleida, near Barcelona in north-eastern Spain, said it was the first time the clinic had treated children who were dependent on their mobile phones.

“They both showed disturbed behaviour and this exhibited itself in failure at school. They both had serious difficulties leading normal lives,” she was quoted in Spanish papers as saying.

Source BBC

Also Read:

Warning against cellphone usage in France

Karnataka Govt to Ban mobile for kids under 16

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