A teen center called The Game Loft that teaches Dungeons & Dragons as a path towards leadership, socialization and community service needs the help of the geek community. In tiny Belfast, Maine, you’ll find this unique after-school program for middle and high school kids in the attic of a game ...

I’m thinking about the challenges faced by previous generations of parents. I’m thinking about parents that had to cope with the arrival of Rock ‘n’ Roll or the Sexual Revolution; parents that had to send their kids off to the factory or the draft. I’m thinking about these parents as I ...

Well here's something you never see. Or at least I've never seen. It's apparently a toy-sized Braun Multimix blender, imported back in the day by Creative Playthings. Which, does this make sense? It clearly dates from the Dieter Rams...

Sphero, from Orbotix, is what amounts to a remote-controlled cue ball. It is white, plastic, and fun, but unfortunately is also expensive. When I first saw Sphero announced I resigned myself to buying one, maybe two, regardless of the cost. Of course at the time I was expecting somewhere around ...

Whn I first saw this floating around, I thought it might be one of those awkwardly obvious stunt videos where people feed their kids their own activist lines. But even if her dad got her spun up a little...

Now that most of us have made it through the gift-giving bonanza of the holidays, you might be saying to us, “Gee thanks! You could’ve posted this BEFORE my holiday shoppageddon!” To which our reply would be, “Hey! We were busy buying ...

Indie songster John Darnielle is so pissed at Lego's new gender-coded blocks & dolls strategy, he almost canceled his subscription to Business Week. @mountain_goats via @gabrielroth [twitter] previously: Lego is for girls now. again. whatever....

We couldn’t be more proud. Our own Senior Editor Jonathan Liu wrote his 5 Best Toys of All Time post back in January, as a post-holiday bit of humorous commentary on how some of the most basic things can be just as, or even more, fun thatnall the technologically advanced ...

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An unbreakable toy is wonderful thing, not least for its ability to break other toys. But a broken toy, as I’ve discovered over the first few years with young children, can be just as much fun as when it was working. We have a bag in our house that contains ...