January 22, 2009
The March issue of ShopSmart, the no-ads shopping guide published by the Consumer Reports folks, includes some tips for figuring out which used baby gear is still considered safe to use. [Get the pdf of the article here.] Though the...
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January 12, 2009
I've largely ignored CES this year; I find that my interest in baby-related gadgets and my tolerance of trade show hype shrink in direct inverse proportion to my accumulated experience as a parent. Frankly, it's an alarming position to...
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January 8, 2009
The CPSC says the "clarification" issued today about the new CPSIA lead-testing regulations which go into effect Feb. 10. is "Intended for Resellers of Children's Products, Thrift and Consignment Stores." But it's also great news for thrifters, eBay sellers, craigslisters,...
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January 6, 2009
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop shopping! Because of the mailing list thing, the previous customer thing, and/or the DT advertiser thing, I get these heads up [heads ups?] about sales from companies that I keep meaning...
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December 18, 2008
Dr. Moz began helping out the new dads with a humorous-yet-informative [? informative-yet-humorous?] DVD, The Goodfather. Now the cinematic allusions and dad-affirmation have made the jump to hyperspace as it were, with the Stork Tools collection of diaper bags....
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I know it'll help her kick little Philippine kids' butts in the New Depression, but it still bugs that K2 loves to play in the garbage so much. Turn your back for a second, and she's pulled out all...
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November 28, 2008
If you shop at only one blogger-curated pop-up store this holiday season, make it Andy Beach's Reference Library Mini-Exhibition at Kiosk in SoHo. Despite his fame as a retail artist/design guru/dad/ex-DT guest blogger is probably best known for his...
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November 16, 2008
I don't know about your kid, but K2 does not have an iPhone. So that means I'd have to load CodeGoo's Baby Monitor onto my iPhone, and then program it to call me on my other phone when it...
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November 7, 2008
Amazon's Baby Store is holding "4-Day Super Sales-Every Weekend in November." Which is funny, because weekends are only two days long. No matter, I'm sure they used all their math skills to calculate "Big Savings" on such things as...
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November 6, 2008
So early in the summer, Williams-Sonoma began selling the Beaba Babycook, a miraculous food processor/steamer/reheater from France that had been a grey market importing sensation for a couple of years. The only problem: Bisphenol-A [BPA] awareness had kicked in...
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October 29, 2008
It's an entirely different kind of diaper bag. For a long time, when we had one, normal-sized diaper bag, I was not a fan of the dad bag concept. It was easier to have one gender-neutral bag that was always...
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October 25, 2008
We're not in the city this weekend, so I am very bummed to be missing the New York Art Book Fair. Thankfully, Paddy Johnson is taking some inspirational photos of the event, which is how I found this. It's...
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October 16, 2008
David is a new dad and one of the car guys [little c, little g, Magliozzis, relax.] at Cars.com. Well, the kid's six months old now, and Dave's care-free days of swapping the bases for his son's infant car seat...
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October 8, 2008
If you have an extra one of those Zenith Radio Nurse and Guardian Ear sets designed by Isamu Noguchi in 1937 lying around, you might want to dust it off. A very fine-looking example just blew through the pre-sale...
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October 2, 2008
Did you know it's actually pronounced "KEE-koh", not "Chee-koh"? Just one of the many things I learned from Pamela Paul's book, Parenting, Inc. One thing that's not in the book: the Italian word for pacifier. Succhietto. [SOO-kyee-Etto] And I...
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I've totally dropped the ball on the Kind + Jugend-themed Oktoberfest this week. But here are a couple of bathroom beauties, courtesy of the K+J Presse folken: The Flexi Bath folding infant bathtub is from Danish bathing startup, A Real...
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September 30, 2008
I wish I could tell you more about where Haifa-based designer and Star of David otaku Hayim Shtayer got this super-Israeli bottle and pacifier. Unfortunately, I only hung out at the JCC long enough to learn how to swim,...
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September 29, 2008
Haha, just kidding, it totally does! On the plus side, he looks like an overprotected, dorky equestrian. Okbaby is, of course, the Italian firm that brought us the Colibri, the largest portable [sic] changing pad in the world--for moms....
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September 27, 2008
If you will recall, after seeing one too many "Ooh, look! New gadget!" blog posts about the BabyPlus Prenatal Education System last year, I decided to investigate. At first, I was satisfied to find that not only was the...
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September 26, 2008
K2 is having a great time sucking on the wooden doorknobs on the kids' Via Toy Box doors. [Remember to glue, not just screw, those bad boys on, btw.] And one of the puzzles she loves [un]doing has these...
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September 12, 2008
So you're going along, changing the kid's diaper, and she's covered in sodium polyacrylate crumbs, so much it looks like someone sprinkled parmesan cheese all over her butt. But you just wipe it all off, and put the new one...
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September 3, 2008
Leave it to the French to name a kid's first source of good head the Lovenest. Produced by Baby Moov, this sculpted foam headrest is designed by a pediatrician to safely produce "une tête bien ronde!" literally, a well-rounded...
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August 18, 2008
Bah! Kids and their dads' iPhones! Back when I was a boy, the phone was on the wall, and we weren't allowed to play with it. We had a toy phone made of wood, that made some ringing noise, and...
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August 16, 2008
Hey girlfriend! Have I got a store brand for you!Finally, a new line of high-quality baby products designed and created by moms, for moms. As moms, we want nothing but the best for our babies. So when it comes...
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August 15, 2008
Darren Andes' Baby Tracker: Nursing is a tap-friendly iPhone app that allows moms to log their breastfeeding activity, whether it's to keep track of how much and how long the kid's eating, or just to remember which side the...
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August 8, 2008
The Mall: The kids and I went to Hot Topic yesterday at the mall. [Actually, at the second mall; the first mall we went to on Wednesday didn't even have a Hot Topic. What the point of our country's...
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August 7, 2008
Seriously, no one reviews a baby product like AJ. Especially if it's from some faraway land where you have to unscrew the battery compartment lid backwards and upside down to open it. Australia, I'm looking at you! In just...
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August 6, 2008
Ahh, 2007. It was a much simpler time. We were all younger then. And richer. And dumber. And when we saw the miraculous French baby food-maker, the Beaba Babycook, on Thingamababy, and we saw that it steamed, it blended,...
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July 21, 2008
What'll it be like for the Facebook Generation [sic] whose whole life is documented online? Well, for one thing, it'll be easier for them to sell their slightly used car seats on eBay because bidders can go read their blog...
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July 18, 2008
First off, kudos to Skip*Hop and Scott Henderson: the awesome Splash Bottle Rack won a Bronze in the Home Living category of the 2008 Industrial Designers Society of America's IDEA Awards. Besides being extremely practical, I love the way the...
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July 13, 2008
So how's it going for the hippie farmers who want to teach the world to sing, and furnish it with iPhone 3G's, grow apple trees, and save the honey bees on the snowy White House lawn? [cue Mr. Burns...
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July 8, 2008
I don't see what the mystery is, GearDiary: some hippies have figured out a simple, 4-step plan for saving the earth: 1) Solicit donations and email addresses for a non-existent non-profit with a TBD mission statement ["#1: Draft mission statement...
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July 4, 2008
The NY Times has tiny, Zagat-style reviews of five backpack carriers, four new, and one ratty old Chicco, which still does just fine. Whatever the results, the product list reads like some sort of shroom-fuelled branding poem: Deuter Kid...
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July 3, 2008
"Wow, so many diesels!" "I prefer a $1=1EUR exchange rate, please." "Does it come in gold lame?" OK, so you'll only need that last one if you're Gwen Stefani. But otherwise, if you're paying $9/gallon for gas, showering with...
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June 30, 2008
I was talking with a baby gear company executive last week, and when she offhandedly used the term "first-time expectants," I stopped to quiz her about it. It's pretty obvious what and why the concept exists--if I were selling piles...
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June 29, 2008
Wow. This 25th Anniversary Leatherman Charge has a sterling silver handle and comes in a limited edition of 999. Even if I didn't have a fine, broken-in Leatherman, this would make no sense at all. But I still totally...
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June 26, 2008
Next time I get a Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe, I'll remember to have Bespoke re-cover my kids' car seats covered in matching Bavarian bull hide, too. image detail via pacific coast news online [celebuzz via my wife, who...
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When I saw Josh Guyot's cast silicone Squishy Bowls on MoCo Loco last week, I had a feeling they'd be awesome for kids, not just for their original target market: fetishy backpackers willing to pay a premium for just...
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June 20, 2008
And I'm proud to be an American Where at least I know I'm free To mail children via parcel post by sewing stamps to their clothing. But then the Postmaster General did stand up! And changed the regulations about...
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June 18, 2008
Thanks to CBS News, we all know there's a reading crisis in America. An NEA survey shows that barely half of adults read a book in 2004. Reading proficiency is dropping dramatically in every age group. [Except for 9 year...
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June 11, 2008
From a Salon.com article about NY Times consumption reporter Rob Walker's new book, Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are:"The only thing less plausible than paying a premium for high-design dish liquid simply because...
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Looking to help John McCain earn $50 the easy way? You can buy a "Dads For McCain" cap and his integrity for just $25 apiece. Oh, sorry, it's just an Integrity t-shirt. Too bad it's not a fragrance: John...
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June 10, 2008
Through some unexplained miracle of strap technology, the ingenious Baby Butler enables you to free up a hand while you're giving the kid a bottle. With that free hand, you can do anything you like, say, read a children's...
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June 4, 2008
Now that we all wax our chests regularly [wait, right? right??], an entire generation of infants are at risk of growing up deprived of the vital kinesthetic imprinting that comes from falling asleep on dad's hairy chest. Fortunately, recent...
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June 3, 2008
That's what this blog needs: secret shoppers. One of Chris Moseley's blog operatives has learned that the North Park, TX location of Babystyle is set to close, making it the seventh store to close as part of the company's Chapter...
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June 1, 2008
It's becoming nearly impossible for me to surf Etsy anymore; there's just too much stuff, and too much of it is crafty schlock [different strokes, I know, but hey.] Fortunately, dad, cyclist and blogger Matt Haughey met Bre Pettis, who's...
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May 29, 2008
Damn, surfing around Duluth Trading's website, makes me want a job-site. They sell this awesome, portable plan station as a time-saving alternative to building your own temporary table: "Simply pound 2 nails into the wall, and slip 2, 24”...
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In their Father's Day newsletter, Stephen, a happy, manly, satisfied Duluth Trading customer thanked the construction and contractor outfitter for helping him be all the man he can be:“My quest for a diaper bag took me through the forest...
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May 26, 2008
Rob Walker performed his consumer marketing analytical magic on the awesome enough Flip Video camera in the NY Times Magazine yesterday. Turns out it was designed to encroach on dad's traditional turf as Chief Family Cinematographer, but that's just fine:Consider...
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May 21, 2008
I hate getting stuff at industry events; it feels very wasteful to me. At a gig like ICFF, most companies are just giving out tote bags anyway, tote bags designed to swallow all the folders and discs and stuff...
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May 16, 2008
The stroller's in the trunk, so I broke out the Bjorn for the first time to run some errands this morning. Once again, I'm reminded that strapping a happy baby to your chest can give a man new-found appreciation for...
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May 14, 2008
You don't have to be Japanese to know that putting little eyes on something makes it exponentially cuter, but it helps. That's part, but not all, of the kawaii genius behind the Dapipa Creature Bags, designed by Kamakura-based design...
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May 6, 2008
Well it has certainly been a while, but Amazon has brought back a classic deal for the month of May. If you order $99 worth of Pampers or Luvs products by May 31st, Amazon will give you a $20...
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On Friday, Jeremiah at Z-Recs reported that Amazon had launched a BPA-Free Baby store--which included several products that were not, you know, actually BPA-free. [Z-Recs knows from BPA; they have been building an exhaustive product list, cross-referenced with manufacturer information,...
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May 5, 2008
So despite the totally objective wisdom of the JPMA, we gave in to the media hysteria. Actually, my wife just got tired of me making BPA jokes about K2's Playtex bottles, so she picked up a Born Free tempered glass...
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May 4, 2008
Seriously. Moore and her husband Bart Freundlich have donated a "gently used" Stokke Tripp Trapp high chair to Johnson's Celebrity Hand-Me-Down Auction. All proceeds go to some dizzying constellation of kid-related charities. [And all goodwill goes straight to Johnson's....
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April 29, 2008
You know, I thought it was just a phase, but I'm liking Elmer the patchwork elephant a lot more these days. Not sure why. And that goes for this pretty sweet-looking Elmer tableware set, too. Not that we'll be...
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April 26, 2008
Wow, how in the world did a dad ever come up with the idea of peeing in a bottle when you're on the road? If only the My Pee Pee Bottle weren't made of BPA-laden polycarbonate, it'd be damn...
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April 24, 2008
It doesn't have the money shot of the last one, where an entire roomful of babies sits, cooing happily in buckets, but the latest promotional video for the Tummy Tub, the Dutch-designed vertical infant bathtub, is pretty awesome. But...
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April 20, 2008
From the NY Times Magazine Green Issue on the intractable environmental questions of the cloth vs. disposable diaper debate:Apparently the only way between the two sides is to do without (which means teaching babies to use a toilet) or adopt...
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April 18, 2008
In a move clearly designed to exploit the misguided media confusion over the baby industry's most successful puberty hastening plastic compound, a publicity-craving, yuppie boutique in Bentonville, Arkansas has grandly announced that it will stop carrying baby products with BPA...
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April 14, 2008
"For information and images on the Bugaboo micro fleece blanket, please insert enclosed flash drive." You mean this sweet, Bugaboo flash drive, complete with a lanyard?? Anything you say, Madam Publicist! OK, so it's only 512Mb, it's still pretty...
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While the wife and K2 were in NYC, the kid and I went to the book sale at the library over the weekend. It was in unusually good form: seven books for an embarrassing $1.40, including Bruno Munari's Zoo;...
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April 10, 2008
Alternate article title: Q: How many little Coloradans can you stuff into a Phil & Teds Traveller? [A: At least four.] The NY Times enlisted a young, large family to try out five travel cribs of various sizes, price...
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April 9, 2008
All your kid talks about is butterflies? Fine. Just run with it. They're just dinosaurs for girls. With the Butterflies of the World poster, your kid'll be the best damn lepidopterist this side of Vladimir Nabokov. Rainbows? All you...
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April 2, 2008
We're just at the stage where we wish/hope the new kid will learn how to suck her thumb and self-soothe, but instead of giving her the chance, we usually seem to take the instant pacification route by plugging the...
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March 31, 2008
Well, that didn't take long. BabyGap Home went live on the gap.com site today, and first impressions: not bad, for a total chickfest. It's definitely a small, tightly edited collection of brands and stuff; the BabyGap flagship product seems...
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March 28, 2008
And where six babystyles close, more than a dozen BabyGap Home stores take their place. Fourteen, actually, starting with existing BabyGap stores in CA, NY, Chicago, and Dallas. Seems The Gap is getting ready to launch BabyGap Home, a...
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March 24, 2008
While the CPSC sits by and does nothing, and the consumer and environmental activist groups go for the big, legistlation-changing headlines, parents who actually want to do something about exposing their kid to Bisphenol-A (BPA) are left in the lurch....
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In Mimi Maternity where we lay our scene... You know what, life's too short and I'm too busy, so while I'd like to retell the entire BabyPlus saga in Shakespearean verse, I'd rather just be done with it. Hopefully you'll...
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March 23, 2008
After identifying all the published evidence as self-promotional, unaccredited, non-science and the founder/inventor as a credential-faking huckster, I had figured my work with the BabyPlus Prenatal Education System was done. But then last week it turned up again, and the...
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March 14, 2008
As if you needed any more proof than the folding process of a Bugaboo that the Dutch are just not that into cars [seriously, I ended up putting the bassinet in the front seat the other day because I...
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March 5, 2008
So I got a little sick of bottles strewn across the counter and little rubber valves slipping between the drying rack, and I bought a Skip*Hop Splash bottle rack and brush combo [Wow, $28? Seems a little pricey, but...
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Last time we heard from mad scientist Rob Cockerham, he was cataloguing all the machinery in the delivery room while his wife was doing the real work. [Oops, actually, that was the first time; the last time, he was counting...
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February 28, 2008
Here's something that was mentioned but not discussed in the CPSC's new, bed&bath-centric, staff analysis report, "Nursery Product-Related Injuries and Deaths Among Children under Age Five": Car seats and infant carriers were the #1 cause of emergency department-treated infant...
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Is there someone at the JPMA who gets a bonus every time crib bumpers aren't mentioned in a CPSC alert about the dangers of "soft bedding" in cribs? From the AP: Parents are putting their babies at risk when they...
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February 26, 2008
I can't find the link right now, but I'm pretty sure it's a violation of Daddy Types' charter for me to endorse "minkee chenille" under any circumstances and satin for anything but tracksuits, and only then for breakdance contests...
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While trying to find any mention or pictures of the non-pastel bottles Playtex finally got around to making, I went to the company's website, PlaytexBaby.com. I thought I was long past the stage where cared enough to point out...
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Here are some follow-ups to recent posts on DT: From the NYT report that after spending several years and millions of dollars, Korean scientists have developed space kimchi:Ordinary kimchi is teeming with microbes, like lactic acid bacteria, which help fermentation....
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February 22, 2008
The word from Hemmings blog guru--and DT's man in the backcountry--David Travers Adolphus on the Tough Traveler Stallion backpack carrier: "Finally." The white thing seen dangling below, the all-weather hood, is a must--for a city kid. The word on...
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February 21, 2008
Youngblood's an architect who recently moved his family of four into the house they just built in Maine. He blogged about the construction and challenges of the modern project, which was inspired by the traditional form of a Native...
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February 17, 2008
It figures that just as we get back into the swing of the baby bottle phase, and we break out a new pack of the Playtex Ventaire bottles--in mix-and-match pastel colors--a new study comes oot of Canada showing that all...
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February 14, 2008
You sick of the gear-heavy, alienating inconvenience of the stroller/swing/playpen combo that 150+ years of Anglocentric parenting culture foists on us all, and you want to try some of that practical, bonding-friendly, elemental goodness of wearing your baby instead? Fine,...
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February 8, 2008
[Now about that stroller of yours:] It's huge, it cost you a fortune, and it's a neccessity. But where do you put it? The neighbors scowl if you leave it in the hallway (illegal they say, as it's a fire...
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February 6, 2008
Several people have sent in tips from all over for the Nestt car seat concept by Chicago-based industrial design firm think/thing. In fact, one of the architect designers emailed me a couple of weeks ago, interested in my thoughts...
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February 4, 2008
Now we're satisfied customers of the low-key, no-frills functionality of First Years' Take & Toss lids and cups. We prefer to think of them as "losable," not "disposable," and until the Great Toxic Plastic Scare of '07, we used...
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January 28, 2008
Every new baby gear company needs a Big Vision. For the Baby Boomers who founded Munchkin, the dream was to "excite and delight parents" and make their "lives easier and more enjoyable." Which meant first, a baby bottle with...
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Brian is in BF Poland at the moment, tormenting some stranger with postcards, and snapping photos of the local kids' gear, like this embroidered backpack. Which somehow, is not the most unfortunate product he found. Poland Dispatch: Unfortunate Products...
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January 2, 2008
A dad named James took his family--wife, two sons (5 and 2), and the nanny--along to Hong Kong for a combo business trip/vacation, Cathay Pacific both ways. On the way home, he's told that little Rex's car seat is...
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December 27, 2007
One of my mom's things is to embroider crochet receiving blankets and matching burp cloths for baby gifts. They're 36-in square, double sided flannel that she gets hem-stitched at the flannel and quilting megastore in Bountiful, Utah, then she...
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December 21, 2007
Surprising absolutely no one, the One Laptop Per Child folks' Give One, Get One program was extended through Dec. 31. Which means you can still get a powerful, amazing-looking, kid-oriented computer for about $400 and give one to a...
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December 19, 2007
This is getting ridiculous. Though the FAA approved the CARES safety harness for use on planes more than two years ago, a quick look at eight major US carriers' stated policies on flying with kids found seven different, contradictory treatments....
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If only United Nations Space Command had added a canvas changing pad to this multi-pocket satchel ["This is neither purse nor 'man-bag.' It's a satchel big enough for your stuff." Yessir, Master Chief.], it would be a sweet diaper...
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December 7, 2007
Not content to just watch the kid's design world and report as it goes by, the folks at Kidsmodern have begun designing products. First up: the Napfnapf, a set of double-sided silicone suction cups you can carry in your...
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December 5, 2007
All of Kiaohsung, Taiwan-based Je Mey Corp's R&D investment in simulation technology has really paid off. The sex toy manufacturer's new Bugaboo knock-offs look amazingly similar to the real thing, you might even say life-like. I haven't seen this...
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December 3, 2007
In her ongoing exploration of The Problem with Parents These Days, Judith Warner wrote about the deadly new trend of Helicopter Parenting. Uh-huh. If there's a crisis in modern parenting, maybe it's that we lack context and historical perspective. I've...
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November 30, 2007
When our domestic GM divisions blithely ignore our demands for family-sized El Caminos, and our international reputation and currency have been flushed [counterclockwise, btw, I just checked] down the toilet, Australia-mocking Americans could always take comfort knowing that at...
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November 27, 2007
I'm not posting this photo of a Hello Kitty car seat because I think anyone should get it. [Besides, I can't find the product info, which has something to do with Guardian, according to that brochure.] No, I'm posting...
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November 26, 2007
DT reader Darren and his gang are planning a trip to France and Switzerland soon, and he was considering putting his kid in a CARES Safety Harness--which is FAA-approved--rather than haul a freakin' car seat around the Alps on a...
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November 23, 2007
If I had to narrow it down to one fashion disaster per city, New York's would be commuter sneakers, while DC's would be trenchcoats. I'd sure like to believe when they're off the clock, all those middle-aged government schlubs...
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November 20, 2007
From Henry Wood Elliott, Harper's Magazine, 1878:The writer in 1870 was taking a short-cut over the country near old Fort Casper, on the Platte, when he paused to kneel and drink at a clear little stream as he crossed....
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November 19, 2007
Hello, slightly random-looking, e-ink-based, wireless, e-book reading device from Amazon. Amazon wants to sell you a Kindle for $400, then sell you digital books and subscriptions to magazines, newspapers, and blogs [?!] to read on it. The content is delivered...
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They urn it. [Sorry, long weekend.] Tech exec Bill Bliss snapped this at the Agora museum in Athens. My question: is that image of mom & kid for real? Because it looks made up. Boingboing has a larger version. Of...
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November 14, 2007
Right this way. Thanks for stopping by. It's four months on, and our 3-year-old daugther still loves her iPhone, by the way. The iPhone You Won't Have To Queue For [guardian.co.uk]...
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November 13, 2007
The One Laptop Per Child--aka The Laptop Formerly Known As The $100 Laptop before it costed out at around $200--started their Give One, Get One campaign yesterday. For two weeks, when you order two of OLPC's XO Laptops for...
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November 7, 2007
Whatever top secret military contractor developed the inflatable, lit-from-within, figurative nylon balloon technology that makes these 6' x 5' BebeSounds Inflatable Birth Announcements possible deserves every tax dollar they were awarded in their no-bid, sweetheart contract. Do they have...
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November 6, 2007
So for The Other Kid, I'm really considering trying a sling. We have our Bjorn as a safety, but if there's a clean-enough, unfussy-enough, functionally excellent sling out there to try, I'd love to hear about it. [I don't...
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November 2, 2007
This photo from Core77 appears to show a bike company's booth at Dutch Design Week, and I wondered in print if that bassinet-looking thing was a bike sidecar. Turns out it's a bike frontcar. As you can see from...
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October 25, 2007
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October 23, 2007
So Balazs is blazing along the "Hungarian autobahn" in his BMW E61 M5 Touring--though to be honest, 180kmh is only 80mph 112mph, not very fast for an M5 or an autobahn--when he has a rear tire blowout, which starts...
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This just in, from an email titled "RE: Cool Product," kindershoe.com is a "website that offer [sic] a unique baby shoe bronzing service ideal for baby keepsakes or gifts." Really? Unique? Because frankly, nothing seems less unique or cool than...
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October 11, 2007
The BabyDeck is a changing station built into a stroller seat. It folds out like a La-Z-Boy footrest [actually, it folds out like the footrest on a Delta Business Elite seat, which is the opposite direction from a La-Z-Boy.]...
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October 5, 2007
"Jeckida's groundbreaking Toilet Ink [TM], makes it incredibly simple to tattoo your toilet." Their videos are still the best in the entire toilet decorating industry. Toilet Ink videos [toiletink.com] Previously: We're No. 2! We're No. 2! DT reports from the...
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October 4, 2007
I remember being completely floored when I was walking down the street in Amsterdam, and right there in the store window was--a male mannequin wearing a grey pinstriped suit with a matching baby sling. Since I was kidfree at the...
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October 1, 2007
From the parent report at Gowanus Lounge:We were on our way back from a great afternoon in Prospect park and my son was happily gliding downhill on his "Like-a-bike" type bike that happens to be made by another brand...
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September 30, 2007
The government's been taken over by a bunch of pantywaists from Gucci Gulch who lobby to slash funding for eveything but their own wallet-lining pork. Corporate fat cats are selling the country out, making toys from who-knows-what in order...
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September 27, 2007
It just doesn't stop. Read the highlighted section of the biography of BabyPlus Prenatal Education System inventor Dr. Brent Logan [It's on a page called "The Science of BabyPlus - The Scientific Basis of BabyPlus"]:He also holds a teaching...
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September 20, 2007
Dr. Brent Logan, PhD., the self-esteemed neurogeneticist/psychologist, is the inventor of the BabyPlus Prenatal Education System, the only prenatal rhythm sequencer-on-a-beltpack endorsed by both 02138 Magazine: The World of Harvard AND famous pregnancy expert Nicole Richie. Logan invented the system...
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September 19, 2007
Last week's or whenever's posts about baby stuff you hear about online meeting expectations--or not, or exceeding them--prompted DT reader Adrienne to burn a few minutes of precious naptime sharing this story:After seeing the company featured on your site...
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Gearblogger extraordinaire [and onetime DT guestblogger] John Biggs posted some highlights of his son Kasper's inventory at Crunchgear. There's a Quinny Buzz, some select Ikea, a few annoying plastic toys, and my favorites: actual obsolete gadgets and Polish-language toys from...
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Yes, yes they do. DT reader Eric:So weird. I just had a dream last night that co-sleeping parents (like us) could help transition their kid to their own crib if there was some sort of fake boob in the crib...
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September 17, 2007
The headline really says it all: I open like two cans a year, and so every time is like an all-new revelation of how easy, safe, comfortable, and good-looking this paradigm-changing can opener is. Rosle Can Opener, $35 [williams-sonoma.com]...
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I'm sorry, but I can't stop laughing out loud at the inadvertent poetry of the 51-page [PDF] Kind+Jugend News & Innovations roundup. [Seriously, it was driving my wife crazy.] It's a perfect storm of PR hype, application packet formalism,...
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September 16, 2007
Here's a picture from the just-ended Kind+Jugend expo in Cologne that seems to show some Bugaboo Bee-matching infant carriers. Either that, or Bugaboo and its car seat-selling expo neighbors drove around Cologne at night, stealing wood from construction sites,...
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September 13, 2007
From the current issue of 02138 Magazine [tagline: "The World of Harvard"], a cover feature [also on the cover: "The Harvard 100: The most influential alumni"] on getting your kid into Harvard:...Such grueling competition isn't going away. In fact,...
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September 11, 2007
DT reader Tania was stoked to find some Nature Babycare diapers from Sweden at her local Target recently. Why? Because they're "100% Biodegradable!" Finally!Nature Baby Care claims their disposable diapers are biodegradable as well as their wipes and entire line...
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On the subject of stainless steel changing tables, DT reader Eric sends along this photo of their nursery, which sports a sweet Ikea Flytta kitchen cart--the bigger, 38 5/8", 3-shelf model, not the 23" wood-topped one. It has lockable...
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September 10, 2007
Maybe I'm not quite grasping the concept here. Do Australian parents really have so much uncommitted time in their day that they blow up a whole bathtub, fill it with water, empty it, deflate it, and carefully hang it...
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September 7, 2007
Here it is, barely after Labor Day, and already, we're talking about El Dia de los Muertos. Skulls hanging from the grocery store ceiling, doily things draped across the food court at the mall. It's not until November, people!...
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Sometimes the key to being happy about your online purchases is to have ridiculously low expectations to begin with. I kind of figured that Space Shuttle-shaped meal set would be a piece of junk in person, and when saw...
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September 6, 2007
So I've been hearing good feedback from people about the Cinderella follow-up post. [Actually, most were bummed because they wanted the book to be better, but still.] We're so used to buying some things online, but when you start getting...
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September 5, 2007
What better way could there be to capture the love and joy of your child's birth and preserve it for the far off future, than with a stainless steel time capsule engraved with your child's name and birthdate in...
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I would need at least a gig. Besides, last time I checked, low capacity USB memory and rubber bracelets from annoying corporate mouthpieces were each selling for like a dollar. Which makes the Mouse House premium $22.50. Nice work...
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September 4, 2007
So when I posted two days ago that there were more Mattel recalls coming down the pike, I didn't think I meant today. But there you have it, the AP is reporting Mattel is recalling 675,000 Barbie accessories for lead...
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August 30, 2007
So I'm reading and enjoying Joel's return to gadgetblogging at BoingBoing, when I see a post about the BabyPlus Prenatal Education System, [$150] which provides a "curriculum" of 16 audio rhythms, basically remixes of the mother's heartbeat, which get piped...
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August 29, 2007
Somewhere in America, a car is parked in the driveway tonight. It's regular space has been usurped for months now by several dozen cases of [reams of?] CD jewelbox-sized, crinkly plastic-lined fleece hankies known as Baby Paper. ["Known" may...
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The University of Brussels and the ANTY Project are developing a friendly, plush hospital robot for diagnostic and therapeutic use with children. Despite getting burned on the Teddy Ruxpin thing a few years back, Bill Gates is involved in underwriting...
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August 23, 2007
So while I didn't get on CBS yesterday, I did get a quote in the Washington Post's article about the latest developments in the whole Bisphenol A toxic plastic baby bottle controversy. [I guess that means I'm not TV-hot, only...
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August 22, 2007
A little while back, CBS's Early Show called, looking for one of the "new breed of dads" they could put on TV. He had to be: hip hands-on in the NY Metro area, and willing to let CBS show his...
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August 20, 2007
DT reader, advertiser, and mailing list drawing prize donor Mark from Sparkability took a break from his sweet kids design guru-ing to email his list of the Top Ten Most Needed Kids Products:Cribs under $400 Doll/Play furniture (crib/cradle/highchair) Cookie Jar...
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August 16, 2007
The NY Times has a big feature today on "the new breed of involved dads" whose unique childraising perspective drives them to invent new and exciting products. And whose very existence still seems to require a lot of incredulous data...
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August 15, 2007
You know how secret shopper Paco Underhill says women will cut through the men's department, but if the women's department's right up front, men will not need socks after all; we'll just catch up with you at the food court?...
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Now one of the basic rules about car seats is that you don't buy them used because you just never know for certain that they haven't been in an accident and had their structural integrity compromised somehow. That said,...
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August 12, 2007
Superflat Monogram [2003], Murakami Takashi's magical, animated tale of an adorable little girl named Aya and her keitai phone teaches us one of life's most important lessons: Louis Vuitton is a lovable, selfless panda with a heart of gold...
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August 10, 2007
Flickr user Hive carried a baby bakfiets home in a bakfiets. Then the baby put the baby holding the baby in the baby bakfiets. [note: it makes plenty of sense in Dutch.] Bakfiets op Bakfiets; Kinderbakfiets [hive's flickr stream,...
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August 9, 2007
The NY Times has a round up of new baby seats and carriers for bikes, including the WeeRide Kangaroo, some trailers [But not the Cougar Chariot?] and the Dutch bikebox, Bakfiets! suhweet. And yes, though the Bakfiets could hold...
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When he sent along the link to Alibaba.com, the Thomas Register of globalized wholesaling, DT reader T tees up the issue beautifully:I, at least, assumed that the companies that slap their brand on car seats actually substantially design them,...
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August 1, 2007
Proper use of a car seat is a vital and effective way to protect kids while driving. The lobbying and trade group for the Baby Industrial Complex, the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association, says that car seat safety tests are "more...
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July 30, 2007
Old blogger/new dad Jason answers the burning question, "iPhone, Wiimote, or newborn baby: which has the best built-in accelerometer?" [here's a hint: it's the one with the Moro Reflex plug-in installed]. Surprisingly, he doesn't make the next leap of logic:...
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July 27, 2007
While we've loved--and hated and grown to like--the Maxi-Cosi car seats we bought from Europe, I'll be the first to admit, I've dropped the ball on covering the arrival of the multinational conglomerate Dorel's US launch of its highly regarded...
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July 24, 2007
I always knew those French were up to something. Bebe Confort, the rival to our own Amurcan Baby Industrial Complex, has released the Axiss swivelling car seat for Group 1, the EU standard for kids 9-36 months old and...
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July 11, 2007
image: Space Shuttle tray from Pecoware via superlocal's flickr stream Some news, sales and rumours from the retail wing of the Baby Industrial Complex: First, the bad news: DT reader Ndele reports that when he and his wife tried...
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July 8, 2007
Wow, a recall at one of the mini majors of the indie baby gear market. A recent batch of Oeuf Hang-Out Baby Loungers have been recalled by the company and CPSC after six reports of the tubular steel frame failing....
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So a couple of months ago, after seeing Funk-Station's computer bag reworking of the classic blue IKEA bag, I wondered if you couldn't tweak it into a diaper bag, too. It has three separate pockets and both hand and...
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July 5, 2007
Everyone has his special purpose; it's just a question of finding the right time for it. Bambu's is making plates and bowls out of bamboo. And the time to use it is now, when the earth is teetering on...
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July 4, 2007
My mom was insanely cool even before she knitted an iPhone. Last week, as the hype was peaking, I braced for reports of kids across the country grabbing for their parents' new iPhones; it was a drool-soaked disaster waiting...
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June 29, 2007
Asahi-yu, somewhere in Shin-Nakano, on the Marunouchi line. I can't believe this sento is only a few minutes west of Shinjuku. It looks like the ones we used to go to in the mountains 20 years ago. Though I...
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June 17, 2007
Regine's in the throes of art-meets-technology sensory overload at the Royal College of Art graduate exhibition in London. That's where she saw Susana Soares' project, Bee's, which explores "how we might co-habit with natural biological systems and use their...
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June 14, 2007
A bit of advice: if it's really that cold, maybe the kid should have some socks on. Just saying. Eindhoven Academy Graduation Exhibition 2007, designer unknown [reluct.com]...
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This seems to be either a Romanian product, or strictly a DIY project. Have at it, send pictures. [pcnet.ro via core77]...
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June 12, 2007
Aprica is really on a roll. They've got the Italy thing, and they actually did a colabo [Japlish for cross-brand collaboration, see] with the venerable Yoshida Kaban to create a line of infant carriers, diaper bags, and other gear...
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June 11, 2007
You know what I was thinking just the other day? We don't see enough neoprene in the baby world. Especially functional pieces of gear for guys. [I know, I know, the guys at BuiltNY make neoprene bottle carriers and...
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June 3, 2007
Yeow, the last time I saw someone as obsessed over a sheet as I am about the Zewi Fix Decke, it was Jason Patric in Neil LaBute's Your Friends & Neighbors. [If you don't know what I'm talking about,...
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June 2, 2007
Even at my road warrioringest worst, when I was flying somewhere literally every 36-48 hours for months, I refused to get a wheelie suitcase. None of the luggage companies I liked made them, and they just seemed like a sign...
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June 1, 2007
So the kid's Miniboo is sitting in the corner of her room for a year-plus with one of the wheels broken off, meanwhile, a Mr. Wu of Somewhere Outside Beijing has made not one, but two robot-powered rickshaws, a...
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But it was. Doesn't look a think like Mickey, though. World War II-era. Gas masks for kids during the Blitz. This one's in a war museum somewhere near flickr user psmithson: Swansea, maybe? I have no idea. According to...
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May 30, 2007
When I first saw the reports a couple of weeks ago of some hippie treehugger study that found significant levels of toxic, even carcinogenic, chemicals like lead, chlorine, and bromine in a whole range of car seats, I was like,...
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May 29, 2007
Happy freakin' Father's Day to you, too, Graco. Oh, and you're welcome. My dad asked me what kind of portable crib he should get for the beach [our kid sleeps in her own bed, but my sister's 1.5yo needed a...
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May 25, 2007
A bit of friendly, unsolicited advice to the makers of the Mama Board: If you're gonna go and do something as awesome as engineering and manufacturing and marketing a skateboard that can latch onto a stroller, DON'T give it...
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May 24, 2007
So Pia Eriksson's idea for designing the Thilde Pocket was to buy her and her baby daddy some more time in the morning, by giving the kid [Thilde, obviously] something to entertain herself with. See, it just velcros over...
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May 18, 2007
So yeah, all that stuff about how the Evenflo Embrace-n-Dump car seat recall was only the latest in a 10-year string of recalls for the exact same problem, and no one's really noticed or done anything about it, and...
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May 17, 2007
The environmental impact of disposable diapers got you down? Which depresses you more? Their non-biodegradability, landfill fillability, non-compostability, non-recyclability, or their weird, chemically enabled absorbability? Well, cheer up, it's spring! The time of year when unpronounceable Dutch design firms...
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May 12, 2007
somehow not recalled for ugliness DT reader Throkky pointed out "the most sad/hilarious part" of the Evenflo Embrace 'N Dump car seat recall: It's actually Evenflo's third recall for the exact same problem. It gets sadder and hilariouser, though....
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May 11, 2007
The CPSC, NHSTA, and Evenflo have announced the recall of 450,000 Evenflo Embrace car seats because when the seat is used as an infant carrier, the handle can unexpectedly release, rotate the seat forward, and dump the kid on...
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May 10, 2007
If you're planning an old school Sesame Street disco pinball machine/Pointer Sisters theme for the kid's nursery--and who isn't? look at all the possibilities down there--brother, has Thydzik got the DIY clock tutorial for you. [There are even cleaned...
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May 8, 2007
I just heard today from diaperbagmaker to the stars Mia Bossi that blue is the new black: “We know blue is going to be a big color this fall, so we wanted to incorporate it into the line—but also...
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May 7, 2007
If I had to pick the most egregious examples of Spiderman 3 marketing asshattery we've seen, it'd be a tossup between the posters taped to the ends of the shelves and carts at our public library in DC, and...
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May 3, 2007
You know when I started to be unnerved about some kind of safety risk involving the lead in vinyl-coated bibs? When I got a press release from the JPMA titled, "JPMA Notes CPSC Declaration that Vinyl Bibs Are Safe: Inaccuracies...
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April 27, 2007
I was wondering where Amazon's good old, "$25 kickback on your $99 Pampers order"-style deals went, and after trying to wrap my head around how this Baby Registry offer works, I miss them even more. Here's what I get...
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April 26, 2007
They say life is suffering, but if more products like the Fleurville Mobi come out, I think we sentient beings could turn that around pretty darn quick. The folks at Fleurville wanted to build a "clean" diaper bag: "Clean...
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The ReliaDose infant medicine delivery is basically a syringe-in-a-bottle. It's a way to fake out a feisty kid who won't take medicine via a syringe alone. It looks like it was invented while staring at a Dr. Brown's anti-gas...
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April 19, 2007
Moo, the folks who turn your photos into beautiful little calling cards will now turn them into notecards, too. I still can't get over how awesome the Moo Minicards I got last fall are. They're printed with images culled...
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April 17, 2007
We've expended an enormous amount of energy keeping the kid from touchscreening our laptops, so we're already doomed on this one, but maybe it's not too late for you. A dad named John loaded Firefox onto a surplus point-of-sale...
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April 12, 2007
I'm usually wary of 2-or-more-in-1 inventions; more often than not, they end up doing neither thing very well. Like sporks, which are barely suitable for eating KFC "mashed potatoes", but nothing else. But this teething ring/toothbrush seems interesting, and...
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April 10, 2007
"Eastern Sale is a estore for Tecoserve," which is located in Maharashtra's second largest city, Pune [No. 1 is a quaint little 'burg called Mumbai]. They have over 20 years in the IT business, so you shouldn't worry too...
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And by "vintage," I mean 2005 at the latest. That's when Colin McKay--the vert guy with the Eames Rocker on his deck--stopped skating for Girl and joined Danny Way and the rest in the revival of Plan B. So...
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April 6, 2007
Naturally, this would happen just as we're getting traction again on the toilet training. One of the things that bugged about Pampers is the needless decoration, which would hang out of the kid's pants and show through when she'd wear...
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March 30, 2007
A geekdad adapted an auto-run software trick for adding an "If you're reading this, this USB stick is lost. Please return it to me at..." message to a USB memory stick into a kidtracking solution for the family vacation at...
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March 25, 2007
I don't know why the idea of a kid-sized pink and green vinyl Tinkerbell suitcase studded with LED's never bothered me before. Actually I do know why: because the merest possibility of the existence of a blinking fairy suitcase...
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March 23, 2007
There's one less option available for combatting against babywearer manboobs. The CPSC has announced a recall for about 100,000 Infantino SlingRider baby carriers. Apparently, the plastic strap adjuster can break and drop your kid on his head. Seriously, it's...
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March 22, 2007
In search of a way to carry his kid Bubba without straining his back too much, Chicago area at-home dad Howard Ludwig decided to check out a babywearing seminar at the local library. But unless you count a bunch of...
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March 21, 2007
Beck loves the artists to do his album covers. He collaborated with a friend, Jeremy Blake, on a previous album, and on his latest release, The Information, he and twenty graphic/street/sticker artists from around the world put together various...
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On their way home from the hospital Ted, a new dad in Wisconsin, and his new mom/fiancee stopped by Target to pick up a First Years Close & Secure Sleeper for the kid. I'll let Ted's email to Consumerist...
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March 20, 2007
The car seat world freaked out a couple of months ago when Consumer Reports announced that 10 out of 12 major US car seat models didn't perform well on more stringent crash tests required for new cars. Then just two...
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March 14, 2007
The Sunshine Radian 80 carseat is probably the strongest car seat on the market. It's made from steel like an aircraft seat, not from plastic like a Happy Meal toy. It's also narrower on the outside while providing comparable...
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March 8, 2007
Tom Van Baak decided to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Einstein's theory of general relativity and the 50th anniversary of Essen's first cesium clock by taking his family on a trip up Mount Rainier, thereby demonstrating the time-dilating effects of...
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March 6, 2007
Fresh outta school Dutch designer Wendy Boudewijns won the Red Dot Award for her Puzzle Dinner Tray. Everything fits together like a puzzle, and most things have those little red knobs on them.] "At Royal VKB, we like our...
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March 4, 2007
This shot, titled "Father & Son," was taken in Amdo, Tibet, by Brooklyn photographer Raul Gutierrez, and it shows, among other things, an awesome sheepskin baby sling a yakskin robe being used as a baby sling [thanks for the...
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March 1, 2007
Matthew Cruickshank cited the Boston-based character design firm Studio Espinosa as one of the inspirations for his Neo-Mickey animation. Espinosa is run by a husband-wife team who are just beginning to see their wealth of ideas realized. They have a...
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February 28, 2007
Bottles of Doom in order of descending toxicity, l to r: Avent, Evenflo, Gerber, Dr. Brown's, Playtex This just in from Environment California, an advocacy group which commissioned the University of Missouri to test five major brands of hard,...
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February 27, 2007
Idaho dad Anthony Doerr takes a break from hipster parenting to agonize over the devastating amount of trash his family generates. His, yours and ours, that is:Before I became a parent, I didn’t bother to think about garbage all that...
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February 22, 2007
A freaked out British DT reader emailed, wondering if their Maxi-Cosi Cabrio was going to get confiscated by US Customs when they landed at the airport. Seems they were reading along in an otherwise uneventful and mildly informative messageboard thread...
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February 20, 2007
WTF is with the played out 100-year-old tattoo cliches? Look, if you're gonna tattoo your child, at least get a design that shows a couple of creative synapses are firing up there. I mean, it's gonna be on there...
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February 18, 2007
Perfect post for a Sunday morning. Seattle metalhead artist Boo Davis picked up quilting from her grandmother, who, in her long quilting life, probably never realized the traditional Half-Log Cabin design would look good transformed into a giant, grinning...
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February 16, 2007
It probably shouldn't be a surprise that the producer/host of some random, me-too reality TV shows, now thinks that he's invented a nipple that fits on a water bottle. The only thing he deserves credit for is getting them...
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February 15, 2007
Prompted by their school's switch to natural cleaning supplies, parents are switching, too...says Don Imus's wife, whose non-profit group tries to get schools to switch to natural cleaning supplies. And science schmience, if ammonia residue on the coffee table...
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February 13, 2007
There are a couple of solutions for making electrical outlets safer for mobile kids. Especially when bite-sized outlet covers can be nearly as hazardous as the sockets themselves. In DC, the real electrical outlet threat is in the living room,...
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It may look like a harmless pacifier, but when you push the plunger on the Kidz-Med Medicine Dispenser--BAM!--the medicine hits the back of the kid's throat, bypassing his tongue, and most all his spitting reflexes. So if the trick...
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February 12, 2007
EliteCarSeats.com is a former DT advertiser who's got a sweet deal going on Britax car seats. Through Friday, 2/16, all infant carrier and car seat models except the Regent are 20% off. The deal goes for accessories like bases and...
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February 9, 2007
Sheesh, February is officially Diaper Deal Month now. Turns out gDiapers, the amazing, flushable diapers that come with their own toilet bowl swizzle stick, is throwing a Happy Baby, Happy Planet Giveaway in conjunction with Wild Oats, the other organic...
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February 8, 2007
This Waterford cut crystal baby bottle seems nice enough, but what're the odds that it'll match your other Waterford crystal? Exactly, slim to none. Fortunately, it's for sale at Bed Bath & Beyond, so if you get one at...
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February 7, 2007
At $57 a case, the Triple Concentrated Baby Laundry Detergent alone is enough to qualify for Amazon's $10 instant checkout kickback on Method Products. Personally, I would stare at six bottles of baby laundry detergent and wonder what happened to...
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February 3, 2007
Set aside for a moment the glaringly obvious suggestion that Pampers should've sponsored a Porsche Boxster, not a Carrera, to promote their new diaper caddy, the Porsche Box. No one in the fast-paced worlds of diaper marketing and motorsports...
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Amazon SO wants you to be their friend, they'll give you $25 just to hang out with them this month. Hang out and buy $99 worth of Pampers, Bibsters, Luvs or Kandoo products in one shot, that is. Qualifying...
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February 2, 2007
Who knew we were living in the midst of an at-home-dad-driven renaissance in baby tracking technology? While the Baby Industrial Complex was introducing such literally archaic devices as the Mom Abacus as recently as 2004, dadovators like Ben MacNeil and...
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January 31, 2007
Good morning clean, cool water from a stainless steel sippy cup. Stainless Steel Sippy Cup [Klean Kanteen, Greenfeet]...
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January 28, 2007
Look, I just came back from the International Gift Fair at the Javits Center, so I think I know a thing or two about utterly useless crap for sale. Right now, the idea behind Cuusoo Seikatsu ["Imagination Life"] sounds pretty...
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January 27, 2007
Just a reminder to the non-cloth, non-flushable, non-Pampers, non-treehuggers out there: Amazon's offer of a $30 instant refund on a $99 Huggie's order expires 1/31. True, you'll have to take the Hummer out of the garage to make room for...
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January 26, 2007
Consumer Reports President Jim Guest apologized--again--for the testing errors that led to their alarming report on car seats a couple of weeks back. He also defended CR's practice of using outside labs for some of their testing, even as he...
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January 23, 2007
Good to see the many uses of duct tape are not lost on the new parents of the world. If anyone has made a full-fledged Bjorn-like infant carrier out of duct tape, definitely drop us a line. Miantro's album:...
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clockwise, from top left: VINTAGE ART DECO SERVER BUFFET CABINET deskey rhode era Reserve not met. Located in Providence, RI. NYC delivery for $125. Perfectly sized for a standard changing pad (18" deep). Has a nice, little rail on...
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January 18, 2007
Yeah, so. Have you put that deathtrap carseat of yours on Craigslist yet? You might want to just hold off for a minute while Consumer Reports gets their glasses checked. They recalled their recent pot-stirring car seat test results after...
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January 16, 2007
I've got a full-blown review of the new Bugaboo Cup Holder in the works. But before we get to that, I want to make sure the newest dads in the audience fully understand the seriousness of the Bugaboo cup...
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January 13, 2007
Once when I was staying at the Century Plaza Hotel in Century City, I came back to find a stranger working at my desk, smoking,. Turns out they'd checked him into my room while I was at lunch. The...
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January 11, 2007
Just to be clear, it was Engadget who called the UWB-to-RSE-equipped MB R500 exhibited at CES an SUV. It is, in fact, a Not-A-Minivan [or Grand Sports Tourer in German]. As for what to call HD video beamed non-stop...
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January 10, 2007
I met Sarah and Bruce, the ModernTots.com folks, in Las Vegas last year at the ABC Kids expo. They were super-cool and surprisingly nice to me, considering the hassle Daddy Types' "Sure, it's custom-tinted, super-dense, has sweet bamboo veneer,...
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Let's look at the facts: Armies of towering stewardesses A bunch of hippiesploitation flicks that, one way or another, obsessed our parents' generation Tiger Woods' bikini model wife The beds in which 25% of Europeans were conceived Is it any...
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January 9, 2007
After Consumer Reports' tough love car seat tests were announced, several people emailed me about similar tests conducted annually by Which, the UK's version of a feisty, take-no-crap, independent consumer advocacy and testing organization. The tests are remarkably similar in...
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Yeah yeah congrats, etc. to James Vincent on the birth of his son. Now about that phone... [actually, with this announcement coming the same day as my shipping confirmation and tracking number, it looks like I picked the wrong...
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Swiss designer Alfredo Haberli created Kid's Stuff, a complete dinnerware service for kids, for the Finnish dish company Iittala [that's two i's, two t's, btw] in 2003. It's thought through to the smallest details, to like making sure the...
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January 8, 2007
"Hand wash only and low iron." Bah. There's gotta be some way to use this 29 x 24-inch, hand-pieced Tetris quilt as a baby blanket. Someone get me Grandma on the horn. Tetris quilted wall hanging, only $50 [etsy...
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Who knew? If you decry a whole industry's safety testing standards--and there are cute little babies involved--people get worked up. Reactions and discussion raged all weekend over Consumer Reports' announcement of its car seat crash test findings. Now the Juvenile...
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Seeing as how it's about to be filled with several months' worth of Huggies, I have a feeling you won't be parking in the garage for a while. I'd all but given up on Amazon ever trying to bribe...
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January 7, 2007
The other day the wife and the kid went back to Ikea to get some toy bins. [Turns out they fit perfectly under the kid's Ikea bed, much better than the The Container Store ones. Plus, they're only a buck....
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January 5, 2007
Sheesh, for going on three years now, I've had to be all equivocating and diplomatic and hedgy when writing about car seats, and facing regular email criticisms about how we must not love our child, and how could we use...
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January 4, 2007
It's well known that Jamie Lee Curtis immerses herself in the worlds of her characters. While her sweaty scenes with John Travolta grabbed our national imaginination in the 1985 aerobics thriller Perfect, they also tend to obscure the empathetic...
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January 3, 2007
I can't believe I've been sitting on this for so long, sorry. [New Year's Resolution: clean out to-post file.] Crumpler is an Australian bag company that made a name for itself by giving away beer, and lots of it....
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January 2, 2007
Unpacking the diaper bag today for the first time in over a month, and I realized we had Pampers from three countries: the US, France, and Japan. The Japanese ones [lower left] are far softer than either of the...
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December 30, 2006
I've felt bad for not responding to the several emails I've gotten recently asking for advice on cool rockers or baby swings. For a long time, I thought that the reason I couldn't bear to post about them is because...
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December 18, 2006
Core77 gets all philosophical about the iFrogz Tadpole, a rugged, fun-looking iPod case for kids that's perfect for letting your kid watch videos at "the car, grocery store, bus stop, doctor's office, stroller and more!":could this be an indicator...
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December 17, 2006
Can't. Stop. Blogging. Must. Keep. Mouth Shut. And. Bid. Arrghh... Oh, what the hey, I only use the clock on my cell phone these days anyway. If I bought it, this 1995 Swatch with adorable baby faces all over...
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December 15, 2006
Struggling to make it work with a baby and a cat? "Why lay down 50 bucks or more for a gate (that has less than a 2' opening), when you can MAKE exactly what you need for next to...
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December 13, 2006
Cue up the Enya, baby, because come Springtime, we are finally going sailing again! Now that Kids Nautique has created the SeaSwing, we'll be able to clamp the kid onboard in a safe, upright position either in her Maxi-Cosi carrier...
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December 11, 2006
Parents ignore their kids to do email on their BlackBerries. The kids who are old enough to talk seem to take this personally, even the ones who play pretend Blackberry themselves:One of BlackBerry's biggest defenders, Jim Balsillie, the chairman of...
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December 10, 2006
A study at the University of Auckland [NZ] looked at the cases of 43 babies who suffered lack of oxygen. In 9 of those cases, the survey found, kids were resting in an infant carrier for some extended period of...
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December 4, 2006
Reuters somehow uncovered a new diaper bag design for men from a Richmond, VA-based designer, Passchal, who works exclusively in the medium of recycled inner tubes and tires. It looks a bit like that eel skin that was so...
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November 28, 2006
And by testing, I mean that it's installed and keeping the designers' kid from tumbling down or escaping up the stairs, depending. Joel & Maria Piela, the dad & mom design team behind Blue Ant Studio, whipped up this...
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November 24, 2006
$27 shipped seems a bit steep for a circa-2001 bottle brush designed by Philippe Starck for Target, even if it is mint-in-box. But then again, this is the only one of these things I've seen turn up on eBay...
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November 21, 2006
Whether you have a farm in Africa at the foot of the Ngong Hills or a cabin in Deer Valley on the way to Stein Eriksen Lodge, you don't have to hide your kid away in the sleeping wing...
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November 14, 2006
How bummed am I that the kid gives up diapers just in time to deny me the joy of filling a Diaper Genie II? Uh, not that bummed, to be quite honest. But as a fervent student of diaper disposal...
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November 10, 2006
DT reader Eric tips the rest of us off to a site you law enforcement and Close Quarters & Clandestine dads out there already know [way to keep a secret, Eric]: BlackHawk.com. If I were to order a diaper...
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November 9, 2006
Here's a tip from DT reader John: When it comes to my son and traveling around town I've taken a very minimalist approach. I'm a stay at home dad and have been using a Maxpedition Fatboy sling to carry...
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November 6, 2006
Just when I think I'd gotten a handle on the whole Creative Playthings vintage toy thing, I get an email about this: The Creative Playthings Inquarium, The In-Crib Aquarium. Here's what the box says:The newest crib toy--a true departure...
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November 1, 2006
Dad Martin Kern began Magic Custard after creating some life casts of his son's hands and feet. Now he's working that in a West London studio, in a "world-renowned Magic Custard Mobile Unit," in the Mothercare [sic] flagship, all over....
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October 31, 2006
We're getting more Engadgety [Or is it Gizmodo-y?] every day. DT reader Don has had enough of lugging that Tripleplay Sit-n-Stroll around on plane trips. [You know the one. Looks like someone ripped it out of an RV and...
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October 24, 2006
Jessica Helfand is a designer's designer, and she plumbs deep meaning from the little things in our world the rest of us didn't even notice. This time around, not a moment too soon, she peers through the windshield of...
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October 21, 2006
Even though the kid's been a toilet-using champ, we're still in diaper mode at night, on long trips [though she's done well there, too], and, unfortunately this week, at school, where the transition and stress seem to be translating into...
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Though it is neither Swedish nor a kitten [nor a penetrating (sic) expose' into America's addiction to porn], the flesh-toned latex pregnancy belly and bust worn by Julia Louis-Dreyfus during season 2 of Arrested Development has attracted considerable interest...
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October 20, 2006
There are a million reasons to subscribe to Cabinet Magazine, but here's one more: Mats Bigert writes about the pacifier tree at Stockholm's zoo in Skansen. Since they began to accumulate thirty years ago until they were last counted...
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DT reader Josh sends word of the Nuggiweg, a cactus-modded pacifier. Made in Germany. And with this simple how-to image, you can make one where you are, too. Cactus Soother [funny-town via josh]...
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Daddy Types has confirmed that what was mistakenly identified in early reports as "that crock pot" and "something," turns out to be the first known sighting in the wild of an Orbit Baby Travel System. The incident occurred this...
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October 19, 2006
Very interesting concept. Thanks to Niche Retail's Advanced URL Deployment System, it's always pretty clear what's for sale on a given site: JoggingStrollers.com, EliteCarSeats.com, ReturnsForSale.com, etc. You may recognize the first two from their flashy advertisements on Daddy Types. That...
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October 16, 2006
The problem with going to trade shows, of course, is that you end up seeing--and reporting about--stuff long in advance of when it actually becomes available. And then you realize--as I just did--that it's been five months since I...
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October 3, 2006
For several years, Kimberley-Clark, the manufacturer of Huggies and Kleenex, has had a stated corporate sustainability policy that "prohibits the use of wood fibers from ... ecologically significant old-growth areas, including ... temperate rainforests in coastal British Columbia." Trouble is--and...
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October 1, 2006
Paul Hammond's a techie in the UK who's expecting a baby with his wife any day now. His flickr photostream is studded with shots from daddy class, strollershopping, and this photo, taken at the very moment he realizes his...
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September 26, 2006
I naively went to ABC Kids Expo execting to stumble across row after row of baby gear innovations. But when I got there, all anyone could talk about was The Zaky. These plush toys that attach to your kid's...
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I'm trying to remember which magazine I saw these heavy felt baby swings from Austrian design firm Mohr Polster in; It was either in the launch issue of Cookie or that issue of Dwell where the entire editorial staff...
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September 25, 2006
Another interesting industry tidbit that came to my attention from K+J: Congratulations go to Funny Handel, GmbH, the German distributor of the Angelcare Captiva diaper disposal system, which was named a finalist in the 2006 Innovation Awards, World of...
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he's saying "simply ingenious," btw I feel your pain--really, I do--but I've usually got next-to-nothing to tell you about where to find non-heinous-looking swings and exersaucer-like playgear. No matter how much bacon they ply me with, I have to say...
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As DT reader Throkky pointed out, this new/coming soon product from Phil & Teds, the Latte Shaker, looks like it's actually not new, at all. The patented Umix Travel Bottle [above left, er, I mean, right] has been around...
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It was evident at JPMA, and again at ABC Kids: in two short years, Phil & Teds is really &ing up their brand presence and their offerings. I first heard of Phil & Teds when I walked into a...
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September 24, 2006
I hear from the hemp folks that cotton is an extremely resource-intensive crop to grow. Organic cotton's better, I'm sure, but I really have no idea. It's all angels on the head of a pin to me, the guy who...
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It's "raid theapt day" here at Daddy Types. This sweet-looking Lacoste canvas messenger bag would make a decent, adaptable diaper/gear bag for any one as-is. If only it came with a matching Lacoste changing pad, and maybe a waterproof-lined...
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September 22, 2006
The latest issue of Make Magazine features some great warning labels that you probably won't be seeing on any animatronic or injection-molded plastic toys anytime soon. Danger: Early Brand Exposure The maker of this toy is trying to create a...
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September 21, 2006
I never would have thought to solve my unmanly diaper bag problem by accessorizing with a patch. I would've bought a different diaper bag. But I have to admit, it kinda works. Tactical Diaper Bag Patches, S or M,...
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September 19, 2006
Marcus Melnick's wife wouldn't let him wear his favorite 17-pocket vest on safari to Jamaica because "it made him look like a tourist." But that all changed when he realized it could also function as a masculine diaper bag...
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No secret, actually, it makes sense as soon as you see it. The Burp Catcher is a burping cloth with a folded pocket on the bottom, which catches burps. Now you can get all Beavis & Butthead about it...
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September 17, 2006
After How Proust Can Change Your Life, philosopher Alain de Botton's books got a little too precious for me [out of the frying pan, into the fire, I suppose]. But I'll still check in to see what he's up to....
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September 13, 2006
The first booth I stopped into after arriving at ABC Kids Sunday morning was Recaro, who have an increasingly prominent and impressive line of sleek, high performance car seats, as befits their racing and sports car reputation. [But more...
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In other countries, when a boy suddenly needs to pee in front of a Lamborghini, parents just have to grab whatever container is at hand. In the US, however, we're fortunate enough to have available The Tinkle Tube, from...
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September 11, 2006
As befits a leader of the Baby Industrial Complex, the Dorel booth here is one of the old-school, enclosed, "do you have an appointment?" variety, not the wide open, "PLEASE PLEASE look at my little invention and help me pay...
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September 10, 2006
FLASH: In a stunning upset this morning here in Las Vegas, the USA was eliminated [sic] in the first round of the Potty Training Video World Cup, a sidebar event at the ABC Kids Expo. The hopes of the US...
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September 7, 2006
Plane travel with a kid is set to get easier, and by "easier," I mean "$80 more expensive and now involves checked car seats instead of carried ones." A while back, the FAA approved the use of seatbelt-supplementing harnesses as...
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September 6, 2006
Well, maybe not local. One family has New Jersey dealer plates on their Audi Q7. But they do just stand there. And yet somehow 173 photos don't even begin to capture the moment. In completely unrelated news, the CEO...
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September 5, 2006
Carbon Clear has been offering a carbon and greenhouse emissions offset for disposable diapers for a while now, inspired by the birth of company founder Mark Chadwick's daughter. Treehugger reports that Carbon Clear has just expanded to include cloth diaper...
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September 1, 2006
They're important enough to get our undivided attention, so here's news from the breastfeeding front: Lactation rooms, company-supplied breast pumps, "sorry about the background noise" comments during conference calls, it's all good news for working moms who want to...
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August 31, 2006
When we went to the hospital Sunday night before the kid was born, I actually brought my laptop--and a speakerphone. See, they had just released all 5,200 designs for the WTC Memorial competition, and I was maybe gonna be interviewing...
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August 17, 2006
In an earlier phase of my fatherhood experience, I might have taken issue with Mommysential's decision to market the Babykeeper solely to moms [or more specifically, to "mom(s) on the go... (WHO HAVE) GOTTA GO!"]. Dads' gotta go, too, don't...
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August 15, 2006
Well that only took two years. If it doesn't stink [and how could it, with a slogan like this: "Proven #1 with #2!"] I think that we daddy types can take full credit for spurring a cleaner design that's...
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August 14, 2006
In a welcome break from the purse and messenger bag paradigms, the O Yikes! slingback diaper bag is cross-strapped backpack, just like the one you bought when you were launching your DJ career back in your Williamsburg days. Now...
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August 10, 2006
While YOUR emails are always rational and compelling, I do get messages from my fair share of cranks. And while I try to read each one with an open mind, I like to think I can spot a Customer From...
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Forgot about this, but unfortunately for the marketing director at Table Toppers, I was just reminded that they had handed out a free sample of their new product, Toppers-To-Go, to the visiting journalist(s) at JPMA. It's exactly this kind of...
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August 9, 2006
How would the shorties of this world get around if it weren't for New Zealand? Think about it: Mountain Buggies, Phil & Ted's, Ents, TV Karts... The TV Kart is the most popular television-equipped, mini-car/grocery cart in New Zealand, and...
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August 8, 2006
When the Sony AIBO was announced, they sold the first 1,000 online. I reserved one--I think they were like two grand? four? whatever, it was some amount I did not want to float on my Amex for very long--and...
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I cannot tell you how depressing it is to see little kids pulling wheelie suitcases around. Their bleak, road warrior future flashes in front of me, as I imagine them 25 years from now, schlepping through O'Hare on their...
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When I posted a mockup of a skate deck with ultrasound pictures on it, DT reader/skatechick Anna pointed out--rightly--that with every ollie and rail slide, you'd be sanding off your precious child's mug, and that's gotta have psychological implications down...
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August 3, 2006
+ = ? "Walking Wings is a first of its kind product that will revolutionize the way babies learn to walk." Now, I don't want to be a noodge, and I am certainly the first to encourage innovative parent...
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August 2, 2006
DT reader Tina's wondering about sticking that badboy in a suitcase. I'm thinking that, unless it's one of those giant, going-home-to-New-Delhi-style mega-suitcases, it's highly unlikely. But our Cabrio is in the storage unit, so there's no way to measure it....
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August 1, 2006
Daddy's hands weren't always gentle Daddy's hands were hard as steel when I done wrong But Mommy's hands were soft as muppet pillows, singin' me a good night song:The Zaky is an ergonomic infant pillow designed by a mom...
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Fascinating. When Amazon was running its $30/$99 diaper promotions, where they gave Amazon gift certificates a month or so following a large order of baby products, people placed an average of 5-8 orders/day. [I'm guessing here. Amazon reports what products...
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Toilet training turns out to be like diaper changing, only more so: whenever you go out, you become hyper-aware of where the nearest toilets are. But I confess, even with my heightened potty sense, I never would've thought to...
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July 29, 2006
A pond-hopping dad sent this in:Last year, as we took our boys to Finland, we encountered a variation on the typical airline bassiets which was quite useful. According to the BA staff, our 767s had an additional type of bassinet...
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July 27, 2006
Ami at Coolhunting.com has put together a list of greatlooking, high-function bags "to accommodate the gadget- (or diaper-)toting needs of the modern male. Jack Spade, Engineered Garments, and the Diaper Dude make the list, of course, but there are some...
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July 25, 2006
As Nightcrawler would say, Unglaublich. Sometimes you see a piece of gear that's so completely out of the prevailing paradigm, it's hard to even know how to approach it. The Luftikid is an inflatable car seat. It consists of an...
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We just flew in from Las Vegas, and boy, are my arms tired. Seriously, we've been--to use the Henry Rollins phrase that launched a thousand dadblog--baby roadies all day, hauling the car seat around from rental car to shuttle to...
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July 23, 2006
The Aussie onslaught against America's vital landfill industry continues in stealth mode, and the media just stands there singing its praises. gDiapers, the flushable diaper technology from Australia, got profiled in the hopelessly liberal NY Times Magazine today. The message:...
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July 20, 2006
Business Week's got a round up of baby products that take both design and functionality into account. It's about damn time, you say? Yeah, well, most of the examples in the product slideshow are just prototypes or concept studies, so...
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July 15, 2006
People get tattoos all the time commemorating the birth of their kids. And skaters have been known to put a lot of thought into the design of their decks. But I've never heard of anyone creating a skateboard design...
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This is so cool, I don't know where to start. First, the Open Prosthetics Project is just that, a site and organization dedicated to the development and propagation of improved prosthetics solutions. The site rallies engineering, research, and manufacturing expertise...
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July 13, 2006
Alright, I am officially lookin' for fun and feelin' groovy. My copies of Mario Dal Fabbro's 1968 How to Make Children's Furniture and Play Equipment and Hennessey & Papanek's 1973 Nomadic Furniture arrived, and suddenly I feel like we...
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July 10, 2006
Let's face it; most people who bought Baby Bjorn Active Carriers between September 2003 and August 15, 2004 have retired them, so if the rear buckle was going to come off and drop your baby on his head, it's probably...
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July 4, 2006
Hm. It's already the 4th of the month, and Amazon hasn't turned up with a new $99/$30 diaper/gift certificate deal yet. Are they all played out? Or are they just too busy promoting their new Amazon Grocery business? Seems they'll...
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July 2, 2006
Amazon sent a notice today--the 2nd--saying that as of July 1st--um, yesterday--Amazon and Babies R Us/Toys R Us would no longer be in partnership together, and that "as a result of the improvements we'll be making to the site, some...
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June 28, 2006
A DT reader from gun country sent this in. He spotted it outside the local hospital. "Hopefully this isn't some newborn's ride home," he says of the Browning Special Edition Polaris Sportsman 700 outfitted with an Oshkosh infant carseat...
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June 27, 2006
Now that the kid's successfully inaugurated the third and final piece--the toilet booster seat--of the toilet training set Philippe Starck designed for First Years/Target, I can happily point you toward a couple of them for sale on eBay [don't worry,...
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June 23, 2006
The Bunny Clock is a children's alarm clock that uses a sleeping bunny to let kids know when it's time to wake up. Of course, if the kid can see the bunny's eyes are still closed, it means the...
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June 22, 2006
Lori Lemons' soon-to-be ex-husband is on trial for first-degree murder in the shaking death of the couple's two-month-old daughter NaKita last October. He told detectives he could not get the baby to stop crying. Mrs. Lemons found a teddybear-shaped...
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I just read Jen's story of shopping for a new car seat, and I don't know what's more unbelievable: - that the Maxi-Cosi Tobi doesn't install correctly on cars with either cloth or leather seats [what's left?], - that the...
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June 20, 2006
"No es facil coser una memoria USB al cuerpo de un oso de peluche." Ah, truer words have rarely been tacked onto a flickr photo: "It is not easy to sew a USB memory stick into a plush bear."...
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June 10, 2006
Now we know what unidentified man was cheering about after unannounced baby shower a while back. The car seat itself is a Graco, most likely the SafeSeat. But seriously, I hope you're not basing your car seat purchase decision on...
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June 8, 2006
Yikes, if these DiaperBridge people had come out with their folding platform that turns any bathroom sink into a diaper changing table surface with just a few straps and belts [OK, a lot of straps and belts, but stay with...
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June 6, 2006
And I thought it was tricky when they ran a combined Pampers & Luvs promotion. Ahh, simpler times. Now Amazon's running a now-familiar $99/30 promotion on Pampers AND Luvs AND Kandoo products through June 30th. [Order $99 or more...
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June 2, 2006
At ICFF, there was a pair of GIGANTIC ramen-bowl-shaped tubs--Dutch Tubs, they're called--right at the entrance. They're heated by wood, which is placed in a coiled pipe thing that sticks out the side. "Crazy Dutch, what'll they think of...
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May 31, 2006
If you like Huggies, the Amazon $99/30 deal is the kind of thing you'll like. Their promotion, which includes a $30 Amazon credit for a $99 Huggies & stuff product purchase, ends today, 5/31. Me, I'm taking a pass. For...
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I guess living in a country that produces automobiles makes me expect models to evolve slightly year after year, with new features added and improvements made, problems fixed, that sort of thing, and then every few years, there's a big...
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May 30, 2006
The inevitable flipside of "Hey, he can stand up!" is, of course, "D'oh, he just fell down!" And given the crucial role the coffee table plays in American babies' cruising skills development, it's probably the single-most fallen-upon piece of furniture...
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May 19, 2006
Let's review quickly: carbon off-setting is the recently emerged practice of elminating the net greenhouse gas emissions from a given activity or entity, often by purchasing and retiring the corresponding amount of so-called "pollution credits" on the open market...
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May 15, 2006
One interesting set of new products to show up at JPMA was from the diaper bag folks at Skip*Hop, who introduced a line of baby-task-specific molded plastic gear by designer Scott Henderson that is meant to be cool and...
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May 11, 2006
The little frog has grown into a great big prince of a baby gear company. the parent-company Boon showed up at JPMA last year with a single product, the Frog Pod, which scooped up the Innovation Award. This year,...
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When I saw this in the New Products pen at JPMA, it freaked me out. Why would you lash yourself to a stroller with that thing, I thought. And thus, I unwittingly outed myself to the world as a non-jogging...
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May 10, 2006
From the posting so far, all I did at JPMA was go around and mooch stuff off of people who might prefer that I write favorable things about their company and their product. The only way I can prove...
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May 2, 2006
Hah, it only took me a year to figure out that, with one $99/30 diaper promotion ending [7th Gen], Amazon might be launching a new one around the first of the month. But those sly marketing execs don't miss a...
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April 30, 2006
Every once in a while, Totally Absurd Inventions has a kid-related patent, but they're usually rocket-shaped prams from 1930 or something, so they're usually untraceable. It's not that I doubt they're real, just that I like to see the documentation...
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April 27, 2006
Just goes to show you what can happen to your ego after you go on The Satellite Sisters. DT reader Mimi sent me the link below with the headline, "THIS is how famous daddytypes is!" So with visions of Daily...
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April 18, 2006
All this time, I thought I was the only one, then suddenly, It felt like they were telling my story, right there in the New York Times! You know, the one about being a Chippendales dancer/actor/at-home dad with an artist...
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April 17, 2006
We're sort of moving out of humidifier season here in the Northeast; the last couple of months of winter/early spring, we had a humidifier/vaporizer in the kid's room a lot to help her not cough herself awake in the middle...
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Who can tell me the name of that tiny workshop/store on the south side of Prinsengracht, located at about 7:30-8 o'clock, I think, which makes those awesome Swiss canvas bags? I think it's called something like "Swiss Canvas Bags." Anyway,...
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Finally, we have completed the Baby Bjorn Cycle [above]. We got a Bjorn carrier [original, blue] at the very beginning, and then soon after, we picked up the BabySitter 1-2-3 because it was the only non-offensive bouncy chair out...
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April 13, 2006
Because you order a spare case of diapers for Elijah? Actually, even though Amazon's running these Mountain-o-diapers sales on a near-monthly basis, there are little differences that add up. This time around, Amazon's still offering a $30 gift certificate,...
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I'm still a Bugaboo believer--we're heading out on the town as soon as I finish posting this, in fact--but I can't fail to notice that there are times when we use the Cameleon as a glorified wheelbarrow. Every time...
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April 10, 2006
On Friday an unidentified Brooklyn man was seen toting his daughter to the car. The car seat is easy enough to identify--throw a rock in the Slope and you're sure to hit a Graco SnugRide [whether it's in Trek...
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April 8, 2006
So Make Magazine's blog has another recap of ABC's American Inventor series. The episode this week featured a dad who invented an egg-shaped car seat that allows the baby to rotate inside it in the event of an accident. Not...
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April 5, 2006
IMG_0763 Originally uploaded by mptmahoney. See, is there anything better in the world than finding a photoset called "Our Baby Carriers" on flickr? No, there is not.* MPT Mahoney's got one, and now it's got a daddytypes tag. We've...
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April 1, 2006
You may know him best from his work with such bands as Cattle Decapitation and Vegitation, and with the now-legendary 2002 Oops! The Tour, sort of a return to the days when Lollapalooza was real, before they totally sold it...
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March 27, 2006
Just something to file away in case you ever need to know it: Apparently, when the breastfeeding actresses step out in their milk-fortified-rack-flashing, lowcut gowns, they've been known to use these clear, rubbery nursing pads called LilyPadz that are...
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March 23, 2006
A couple of stretches in NYC ago, we ran out of wipes; I'd forgotten to bring a new Costco brick with me, and the Pampers emergency purchase from a couple of months ago ran out--and anyway, those plastic tubs don't...
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March 18, 2006
Now they've softened us up, they start freaking us out. Amazon has another in its line of "$99 diaper mountain now, $30 gift certificate later" promotions, only this time, it's for Pampers AND Luvs. Buy any combination of the...
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March 13, 2006
While Firefly and i-Care and any number of other companies march ahead with their cell phones for toddlers without a worry care in the world beyond "How soon will it be before Jamie Foxx's kid is seen using it in...
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March 12, 2006
The R2D2-looking Papero Childcare robot from NEC is a technological marvel; I'm sure it was a huge hit at the 2005 Expo Aichi last summer, and that the robot scientists who invented it should feel really proud of themselves. It...
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March 3, 2006
The Firefly mobile phone for kids [and people who don't know more than 20 people and like paying 25 cents/minute to talk to them] is included in this year's offical Academy Awards Gift Bag, which is given to presenters and...
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March 1, 2006
I forgot to mention that yesterday was the last day that Amazon would pay you $30 for ordering a pile of Huggies as tall as you are. Now you'll just have to buy them one at a time at the...
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February 27, 2006
MB Furniture Discount Store was in business for over 50 years in Brooklyn, until it went bankrupt. Now, all the contents of their retail location AND their warehouse are being sold at auction TOMORROW, Tuesday 2/28 at 11:00 AM....
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Daddy Types is here to help make the tough decisions a new parent faces. Like should you buy the Blues Clues sunshade with suction cups you have to install yourself [$5] or the BMW 760Li, the only model that...
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February 22, 2006
One of the most powerful motivating forces in a new parent's life is fear: fear of doing something wrong, fear of something happening to your baby, fear of the unknown, fear of failure, fear of the kid not getting into...
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February 21, 2006
We all know how, by 2025, global warming will be so severe, that the ocean levels will rise and the only thing that can possibly save the cities along the eastern seaboard from destruction will be giant levees of disposable...
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February 18, 2006
Uh, wow. Dateline Los Angeles. An unidentified old man was seen driving a yellow and blue Bugaboo Cameleon along the boardwalk. In another incident, the same old man was spotted on La Brea or someplace with a Graco SnugRide...
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February 16, 2006
Forget the landfills; Amazon is trying to stuff your house full of diapers. It's like they're trying to buy their way to the top of the diaperselling business, one $30 gift certificate at a time. Until Feb 28th, Amazon is...
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February 14, 2006
Behold the BabyVac, a sparsely described, sparsely illustrated, well-trademarked competitor to the Wiva-Vac, aka The Hungarian Miracle. Both products are desgined to clear out your child's clogged nasal passages using the vacuum cleaner you already have in your own home!...
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February 10, 2006
I'd been stuck on a comment I read last fall by MoMA Architecture & Design curator Paola Antonelli before her exhibition, "Safe," opened about children's product design, and so I decided to get her take on the Baby Industrial Complex....
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February 5, 2006
Cory seems to think that the guy who built this Intel P3, 40Gb, 256Mb RAM PC inside a whiskey bottle is both Japanese and a new dad who had to " build it at night and in the office...
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February 3, 2006
Sure, I get review copies of books and DVD's and stuff, but as a rule, I don't accept freebies of gear, clothes, or gifts from companies who may be mentioned on Daddy Types--unless maybe it's a US-legal Mercedes B200 Turbo...
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January 31, 2006
Check out this sweet, Verner Panton-esque car booster seat, which was featured in the 1969 and 1970 Volkswagen accessories catalogues. The full page is available here, at kdf-wagen.de, which has scans of nearly all the printed matter pertaining to...
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January 30, 2006
Could the Dutch possibly be any more innovative and progressively minded? I mean, wow, not only does this sweet bike have a place for the gear or groceries, it also has places for up to three kids, ages 9...
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January 28, 2006
The new One Step Ahead catalog arrived this week; it intersperses some basic gear with lots of SkyMall-type solutions for problems you didn't know you had. One problem jumped out at me, though, right on page 3. What're the odds,...
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January 27, 2006
Here's a report from MSNBC: Marc Anthony "was at Fred Segal [on Melrose Ave. in Los Angeles] last week and bought a Guys Infant Gear diaper bag for $120. He said something that made it pretty clear that it wasnt...
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January 24, 2006
Except for the way the knobs stick out unnecessarily far on the sides and would often hit my leg, I totally loved the Maxi-Cosi Cabrio infant car seat. We went with it because it was the Bugaboo-compatible carseat in the...
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January 21, 2006
Just when you were beginning to see daylight peeking through the mountains of Seventh Generation products you bought last time Amazon offered a $40 gift certificate, they go and do it again. This time, you get $40 to spend at...
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January 19, 2006
An utter a**hole--I'm sure it's just a coincidence that he was driving a 3-series-- leads Houston police on an hour-plus-long car chase at speeds over 100 mph. When he hits traffic, he heads the wrong way down an on-ramp and...
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January 15, 2006
Alan at BIYF went to CES, and all he got was a--well, actually, it's a pretty bleak post about kid-related electronics gear. Sure, there's a TV lockbox [see how long that works], but despite gains in the furniture, toys, and...
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January 10, 2006
When my mom told me she used to drive around with me lying on the front seat, or on a blanket in the footwell, I used to think those folks were crazy. But now I realize my parents resisted...
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January 6, 2006
A big shoutout to new dad and Gizmodan John, who I hope did NOT leave his newborn son home alone with a freezerful of Healthy Choice while liveblogging from CES in Las Vegas. [You never know, though; that Nick Denton's...
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For the first year or so, when a pacifier gets dirty, you boil pacifiers or throw them in the dishwasher. Then at some point, you will find yourself out and about with only one pacifier between you and a melted...
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January 3, 2006
My philosophy about using a vacuum cleaner hose to suck the snot out of my kid's congested nose has always been, I'd only do it if a) there was a snot trap, not just a nozzle attachment, b) it's transparent,...
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December 28, 2005
Hugh Jackman's kid Ava Eliot is 5 months old, which, in Australia, is old enough to wear a kitchen garbage bag made out of fleece. [If any Australians out there could stop gnawing on their placentas long enough to...
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December 27, 2005
Neither of our places in NYC or Washington are big enough to put us out of earshot of the kid's crying, so we've never had a baby monitor. [Note to the various people whose emails about baby monitors I have...
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December 19, 2005
I remember when Pop-Tarts got smaller. Not signficantly smaller, mind you, just shorter, a little off the top. And then when they switched from six/box to eight? They started out as a free bonus pack. Those were the days. All...
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December 18, 2005
Thanks to its meticulously crafted inner workings, Vinta's gorgeous Wooden Clock makes one complete rotation every twelve hours. It's innovative sculptural form enables you to "feel the time" in a spatial sense, not just "read the time." Just make...
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December 15, 2005
Sorry dads, but according to the NY Times, babywearing--as practiced in NYC using the baby wraps of the world, including "the mei tai from China, the Mexican rebozo, the Korean podaegi and the kanga from Kenya," and the "waterproof slings,...
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December 12, 2005
Actually, my wife got it this summer, so I guess it's ideal for parents, but let's face it: more often than not, dads are still the Designated Photographer. The Fujifilm FinePix E550 is an excellent digital camera, but not just...
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December 11, 2005
Let's get one thing clear right up front: That patriotic little ditty by recording arist/false prophet/ex-Attorney General John Ashcroft? Let The Eagle Soar. The source of "building blocks to help [children] develop independence and self-esteem that leads to bright futures"?...
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December 6, 2005
While Drugstore.com doesn't provide the visceral satisfaction of trampling old people on a budget underfoot or of wresting the last pack of newborn diapers from the bleary-eyed father of triplets, you gotta give them credit for trying to spark a...
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Not only a Kid-o bib, of course, will do, but I'm just saying. That all-too-familiar frustration with the horrible design of most baby gear probably intensifies when you open an awesome baby store, because Kid-o has introduced quite a...
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December 5, 2005
For whatever reason [selfless dedication to customer satisfaction? lawsuit-driven CYA?] Playtex does not want you to keep a Diaper Genie with a broken, exposed rotating razor blade. Who knew? Customer Service [jasons.org]...
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November 27, 2005
Mention the vast Australian outback to an American, and two things come immediately to mind: "Bloomin' Onion," and "helluva place to toss a lot of disposable diapers." Oddly enough, Australians themselves don't see it that way, because there's been honest-to-goodness...
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November 17, 2005
Here's a quick round-up of car seats people have mentioned in the discussion about what to car seat to get when your kid outgrows his infant carrier more quickly than you expected. Only a few seem to be useful for...
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November 16, 2005
My 5-month-old son has outgrown his infant car seat. He's too long for it (though still OK by weight). Questions: a) Is it OK to keep him in it even though he's beyond the recommended size? b) What car seat...
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November 5, 2005
DT reader Andy has extended the search for old-school Costco diaper wipes to England:When we were in the UK last year we found Costco-wipes-equivalents in Boots (after a LOT of searching: why do all other wipes suck)? Looking on their...
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November 3, 2005
I haven't heard from the kid yet that she wants to be a princess, but according to the child development specialists at Disney Consumer Products, it's only a matter of time. The Disney Princess line seems to be warping the...
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November 2, 2005
Does this seem a little too soon to you? If you're still working your way through the mega-shipment of Seventh Generation stuff you bought from Amazon, you may want to sit this one out: If you buy $79 worth of...
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October 26, 2005
Phillip at Make has taken delivery of one of the first Pez MP3 players, dreamed up and brought into reality by a SAHD named Pat Misterovich. There's not a full performance review yet, but Phillip has posted tons of photos,...
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First the Pampers get replaced with some sand-filled Kirkland private label diapers. Then they reformulate what were once THE best diaper wipes around, bar none, and turn them into flimsy, pull-apart-able, "Cotton Enhanced" [damn you, cotton industrial complex lobbyists!] pieces...
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October 25, 2005
I mentioned an infant gas pup tent (as opposed to a gas mask) which is in the MoMA exhibit "Safe." [That tent has been replaced by a half-body gas hood get-up that allows you to change or feed a kid...
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October 20, 2005
So a British gossip site kicks of its shocking article this way:Gwyneth Paltrow reportedly carries high-tech monitoring equipment wherever she goes - so she can keep an eye on her baby daughter at all times. The Oscar-winning beauty totes...
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October 18, 2005
If you watched the debut of Stephen Colbert's The Colbert Report, which followed The Daily Show last night, I know what question is burning at your soul: Where can I get me some of those sweet, sweet American Flag disposable...
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October 14, 2005
MoMA's new exhibition, "SAFE: Design Takes On Risk," looks at over 300 products and concepts for addressing stress, protection, preparedness, anda sense of security. I've already posted a couple of things that show up in the show--the Stokke Xplory and...
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October 11, 2005
What are the odds that a single company has the absolute best solutions for both blowing your kid's butt dry AND delivering the right aromatherapy formulation for "bring[ing] sweet dreams" and "a peaceful transition from little dynamo to sleeping angel?"...
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No matter what the publicists may tell you, the re-gifting of PeePee TeePees is NOT--I repeat, NOT--an acceptable practice. Celebrity Gift Guide! [nymag via gawker] Previously: hee hee pee pee teepee...
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October 10, 2005
The Walk-O-Long was invented by a dad whose daughter started to walk right after he had back surgery. Seems her arms were shorter than the average gibbon (aka human-length), and holding her hands meant bending over in a way that...
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October 7, 2005
The best thing about the Mom-Kid Cares wireless child tracker is its cheap price ($US9.90) and its Hong Kong English descriptive text: Mom-Kid Cares Operation : # The transmitter can hook to the object (a Kid), and place the receiver...
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After 8 years of staring at the bilingual packaging at Costco (bilingual so the company doesn't have to maintain entirely separate product inventories for the fine, fine folks in Canada, who like to keep their languages equal but separate), Lifehacker...
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October 4, 2005
We've recently gone off the bottle; we tried swapping out the kid's lunchtime bottle of milk for a lunchtime sippy cup of milk at about 12 months. Didn't go so well. The kid--who's been drinking water from cups for ages,...
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September 30, 2005
In my sister-in-law's Ford Escort, the rear shoulder belt was just barely long enough to wrap around our Maxi-Cosi Cabrio car seat. Every once in a while, I'd have to lean on the Cabrio, pressing it into the cushion to...
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September 29, 2005
So apparently there's an Australian company that's launching some synchronized, remote-controlled, crib-rocking caster system called Lullabubs. I worry that lately I've become a bit jaded or cynical when it comes to baby gear marketing, bloglinking clusterf--never mind. What interests me...
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September 28, 2005
That "buy $99 worth of Seventh Generation products, get $40 to spend on Amazon" offer is good through the end of September. Just a heads up. previously: the same thing, only in more words...
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September 25, 2005
Good to know I'm the go-to guy for so many of you when you find the latest childtracking technology. A whole mallful of you sent in the link to Bluespan's IonKids wireless bracelet/base station proximity monitoring system over the last...
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September 22, 2005
I had a dream that I lived across the street from John Ritter. It was a narrow street, like those walkways in Venice Beach, so we were in each other's faces a lot. Anyway, he was just coming home, unloading...
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September 21, 2005
Aprica, one of two giants in the Japanese Baby Zaibatsu, has launched its flagship car seat (and I don't use the term lightly) in Europe. The Aprica Euro-Turn is the EU version of the J-Turn, or as it's officially known...
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September 18, 2005
Note to car seat manufacturers: What happens in Las Vegas does NOT, in fact, stay in Las Vegas. It sounds like the Maxi-Cosi Cabrio will not be coming to Canada until 2006, at the earliest. Here's what we hear over...
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September 16, 2005
There is nothing I could say about the battery-powered device known as the Dolphin [Oh. Because it looks just like a Dolphin. Of course.] that wouldn't get me in trouble somewhere, so I'm just going to let the Google translation...
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The iPod my Baby bodysuits are now available in Nano Black. [thanks, kaz] Meanwhile, if you want to iPod yourself, go right ahead. As David Pogue said in the NYT, "If you hope to resist buying the newest, shiniest and...
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September 8, 2005
The kid has been jabbering non-stop for months, and always comes up with something to surprise us. The other day, when we loaded into the hot car, she started moaning for "air, air, air," from the back. The black Maxi...
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September 7, 2005
Holy moley, this is so cute. Forget your pocket; it's so small it'll fit in your kid's pocket. The iPod Nano, available in black or white, 2Gb or 4Gb. previously: ipodmybaby onesies...
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In 1999, Yoko Ono oversaw the publication of Real Love: The Drawings for Sean, a book of sketches of animals that John Lennon made while playing with a then-3&4-year-old Sean. The images were colorized, and have since been exhibited and...
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September 6, 2005
A designer's gotta dream, right? I guess these designer-driven concept studies of baby-related electronic gear are preferable to the status quo, where vast swaths of the cutting edge design world act as if children don't exist. The first, a baby...
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How's that for timing? Amazon is running a promotion for Seventh Generation diapers, wipes, etc., where you receive a $40 gift certificate for Amazon when you buy $99+ worth of Seventh Generation products at Amazon. Amazon Amazon Amazon. Read the...
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September 2, 2005
Looks like the ThudGuard has some Australian competition, at least in the product naming department. The "HEAD BUMPA [tm of course, because you wouldn't want to see a whole bunch of counterfeit Head Bumpas for sale on Canal St] is...
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August 30, 2005
Right after getting it, I put it my new phonecam to good use when I surreptitiously snapped a picture of this Restaurant Behavior Management (RBM) system being field-tested at the Vietnamese restaurant near our house in DC. Apparently, it's...
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So we went from a Genie to a Champ, then we went from a Champ to a plastic grocery bag. Now, maybe it's the dog days of a DC summer, but since coming back from Japan, we can't seem to...
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August 29, 2005
A while back someone [who missed some good stores on his trip to NYC, I believer[ had the suggestion to get people to put together a list of favorite stores in their home towns. So let's see what we can...
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August 27, 2005
I can't think of anything funny to say about a car seat that folds in half. I'm too busy wondering why all the other car seat companies haven't been taking the ordeal of airplane travel and the schlepping around...
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August 26, 2005
You know how there's that automatic pornstar name generator site? Somewhere out there is an automatic cellphone for kids business model generator site, too. If you know the URL, send it along. Clearly, the folks at Kyocera have it. This...
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August 25, 2005
Your kid's not old enough to one-button dial you on their Leapfrog phone, but you still want them to eventually find their way home at the end of the day? No problemm. Wit the Philips SBC SC605 In-Touch Address Recorder,...
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August 24, 2005
While the DOC Band of plagiocephalic fame looks awesome [AND serves a legitimate, even crucial purpose AND is decorateable] the ThudGuard helmet is none of these things, far from it. Invented by a Scottish mom "to help absorb and reduce...
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August 11, 2005
Because otherwise, I'd have been tempted to buy the imported Huggies at the landmark ex-pat grocery store, National Azabu*. They're 3,987 yen. [$37]. We actually brought a brick of US Pampers with us, about 20 days worth, and filled in...
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August 8, 2005
We should all be ashamed of ourselves. While we've been moping around like grumpy old men, complaining about invasions of privacy and astronomical phone bills, what have the cell phone companies been doing? That's right, thinking of the children. And...
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August 3, 2005
When you spend $120 on The Why Cry baby cry analyzer, you're not getting what looks like a remote control to an air conditioner in Toontown [Or, that's not all you're getting, anyway.] No, my friend, once you're able to...
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July 28, 2005
The hilarious, loft-dwelling Metrodad writes with a question: "We're searching the net for a cool-looking baby gate. We need a wide one (at least 8' feet) to divide our loft and keep the kiddie safely self-contained. Unfortunately, Messrs. Eames, Van...
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July 17, 2005
We went to Costco for the hot dogs, but we stayed for the Kirkland baby wipes, the giant tubs of Enfamil, and the cases of Pampers. Oh, and the steaks. Can't forget the steaks. Well, we still use the wipes...
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July 13, 2005
While the fragrant, green scent of biodegradable diapers is still fresh in the air, I thought I'd dig up an article I came across last year about the real environmental impact of "eco-friendly" diapers. Those are diapers which try to...
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It's good to be the go-to guy for something, I guess. That's what I told myself when DT readers Eric and dad-to-be-any-friggin-minute-now Chris sent near-simultaneous tips about The Nature Nappy, a biodegradable disposable diaper which its inventor promises will break...
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July 6, 2005
If all they did was introduce me to this awesome clear potty from Babywunder, I'd be grateful to the Elimination Communication for helping me keep up with the hottest trends in both parenting and modern interior design [Everything in Lucite!]....
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He coulda been a contenda'. I just threw out our Diaper Champ, which lasted almost exactly three months, ten months less than the Diaper Genie, in fact. We liked the easy disposal method. The kid loved it; she'd play with...
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July 1, 2005
Very interesting. Here are some other kid-related winners from the Business Week-sponsored Industrial Design Excellence Awards: Gerber SippySnacker, "a reinvention of the iconic sippy cup that, for the first time, combines a spill-proof cup and snack holder." Note: also named...
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In news that turned the rectal thermometer design industry on its head, Smartdesign won a silver medal in the Business Week Industrial Design Excellence Awards this week for their innovative, orifice-optimized Vicks Rectal Thermometer. And if that weren't enough,...
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June 22, 2005
If you think I'd suggest choosing your baby gear based on which actor is photographed with it, I'd say you have me confused with InStyle magazine [and I'd also say you're something of a chump, let's face it]. No, I'm...
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June 20, 2005
For all the hubbub in the media about equal parenting and dads changing diapers, taking leave, and getting more involved, you almost never hear about moms grabbing the car seat and hauling it around the airport. And that's fine. I'm...
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June 17, 2005
Presumably, by using plain, old toilet paper and not buying--or even making--baby wipes, you could save enough money to get a sweet, sweet bidet-equipped changing table. And after seeing the two options below, I'd have a hard time choosing; they're...
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Yeow, David Pogue, the NYT's tech guy, has gone monkey-crazy for the new Nikon D50 digital SLR camera, which offers "the same spectacular photos as the bestselling D70S--at a list-price of $750 (or as we call it around here, 1.03...
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As Make's blog post notes, there are all kinds of sites that tell you how to make your own baby wipes by cutting a roll of paper towels and saturating it with a homebrew of solution. But when they give...
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June 9, 2005
News from the Mount Olympus of the Baby Industrial Complex: Maxi Cosi will start selling the Cabrio, it's Stage 0 carseat [that's EU-talk for 0-8kg, or 0-9 months or so, although the Cabrio is actually designed for up to 13kg,...
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June 4, 2005
It could be a blankie, a bear, a towel, a bottle of Jack, whatever a kid needs to get herself to sleep, the anchor that helps ease the development of her distinct sense of self apart from her parents. According...
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June 3, 2005
The Taiwanese company Guidetek Technology has released its cell phone for 3-year-olds, the I-Care. It has four parent-programmable buttons, one on each paw. It seems to have fewer features than the Firefly, the other Cell Phone For Kids, but the...
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June 2, 2005
I took the kid to the park yesterday (my wife's been away for a conference, and I've been flying solo), and we played in Sheep's Meadow, which, on a weekday afternoon, should be renamed Baby's Meadow. The kid didn't freak...
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June 1, 2005
You'd think that, what with Army mom Lynndie England's massive product shot, there's never been a greater awareness of the versatility of leashing. So I was a little shocked to see O'Pair described as "a more socially acceptable and safe...
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I may not have the quote quite right, but I think it was Churchill who said the Bjorn is the worst baby carrier we have, except for all the rest. If you're wedded to the Bjorn, but you have real...
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Rusty, Perl hacker, guru of the tech-culture-news site Kuro5hin.org, and new dad, has this to say about the New Native Baby Carrier, which ex-Pavement singer Stephen Malkmus was sporting at a recent NYC art opening:The Stephen Malkmus-approved New Native don't-call-it-a-sling...
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May 31, 2005
In the late 1990's after the success of Muppet Babies and Warner Brothers' Tiny Toons, Tsuburaya, the company that owns Ultraman, introduced Ultraman Baby. The happy little alien scamp graced a wide range of baby gear, toys, and books. It...
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May 30, 2005
Hey, I'm all for making people painfully aware of the environmental impact their disposable diaper-wearing kid will have ["this baby will create one ton of soiled diapers by the time he's potty trained." "disposable diapers: guaranteed to last 500 years...
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May 22, 2005
From William Pym's Artforum Diary report of the opening for "Make it Now," a group exhibition at SculptureCenter in Long Island City:I have never seen so many babies at an art opening in my entire life; it was as...
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May 16, 2005
"I for one welcome our robot vacuum overlords," or a life lesson to that effect. On his blog, The Long Tail, Wired honcho Chris Anderson posts about his kids' warm, cuddly, yet well-disciplined relationship with their Roomba Discovery:Although it's fine...
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May 10, 2005
After painting your newborn's nursery his (newly discovered) favorite color, you'll be able to find out if he likes it. If you speak Japanese, that is. Researchers in Nagasaki are readying a device which will translate a baby's cries and...
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May 8, 2005
Sound like a fair trade? Have your baby at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas over the Mother's Day weekend, and TiVo will give you a free box and lifetime service. All they apparently ask in return is to just put...
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May 4, 2005
A couple of times when I've forgotten to bring one, I've improvised a bib by tying a plastic grocery bag around the kid's neck and tucking it into her restaurant high chair strap. Maybe that's why, when I saw this...
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April 24, 2005
Whether its from their outfielders or their Diaper Champs, folks in the Bay Area know that getting maximum performance sometimes requires extreme steps. But as Mark McGuire once said, we're not here to talk about the past. So I'll just...
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April 22, 2005
One more Earth Day-themed post just fell in my lap. A few weeks ago, an architect friend told us about the me too! Portable Chair, which they loved. It turns out to be the most expensive of the three brackets-on-the-table-edge...
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April 10, 2005
Some other dads have been stepping up to the plate and reviewing some gear on their own blogs: Laid-Off Dad posts about buying Robert his first (non-leather) baseball mitt: "1) nylon is more pliable and weather-resistant, and 2) the vibrant...
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April 6, 2005
We were just talking last week about all the crap and gear you have to take with you when you go out with a kid. [Actually, I was kind of ragging on people I saw on the street who'd stuffed...
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April 3, 2005
Let's go to the tape, shot by new dad Matthew (congrats, btw) of his son Oliver being hypnotized by an $8.50 windchime purchased at a Chinatown department store. [could it be the Great Wall on the NE corner of Canal...
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March 29, 2005
I just assembled our new Diaper Champ, which replaces our Diaper Genie, which really started reeking and sucking. Stay tuned for a hands-on, nostrils-flared review, but I can feel confident making at least one prediction. [Before that, the basics: each...
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March 21, 2005
It's the last week of (relative) calm before the second kid is due, and DT reader Adam Bell decided to pimp out his kid's crib so he could listen to mad lullabies whenever he wants. The solution: A spare iPod...
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March 17, 2005
Looks like new fatherhood agrees with Andy (Mr. Kate) Spade. That's the sense I get from this new Jack Spade Dad Backpack, which carries on the Jack Spade tradition [ed. note: What tradition? Come on, the company's only what, five...
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March 16, 2005
The kid's expanded her use of our cell phones. She used to just chew on them and saturate their crevices with her drool. Then she started cuddling them, which approximates the way some hedge fund guys I know treat their...
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March 13, 2005
"You've probably seen them on national TV," the website starts. Um, probably not, since these days, I'm lucky if I catch The Daily Show--and latenight bullriding from PBR Rodeo. No, I found out about the hilariously embarassing novelty pacifiers by...
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March 5, 2005
VINCENT You know what the funny thing about Europe is? JULES What? VINCENT It's the little differences. A lotta the same shit we got here, they got there, but there they're a little different. JULES Examples? VINCENT Just look at...
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February 28, 2005
I was taking notes at a pretty quick pace in Amsterdam, figuring I'd just look stuff up online later. Except I couldn't find the Happy Pee Kiddy Boy Urinal anywhere. We saw it in Teuntje, a very cool kids store...
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February 11, 2005
According to Sarah's comment on the Seimi Dummy Stand, they're ALL called dummy stands. This example, from Monkey Business, is called a Baby Face Pacifier Holder, though, at least on TinyTantrums.com. Probably because the parents of the stunned-looking kid in...
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February 5, 2005
It's time to update our stereotypes about individual GPS tracking. The image of a white-collar criminal with an ankle bracelet is just too narrow, too Nineties--and too non-profit--to capture today's convenient, feature-rich pervasive surveillance marketplace. Take, for example, the "GPS...
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February 2, 2005
Say you're at the beach, or in a crowded mall, airport, theme park, or stadium. If you turn your head for even a second, your child could suddenly be 30 feet away from you without your even realizing it. What...
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January 29, 2005
Ever-thrifty WASP's would never dream of throwing out that favorite chair just because the upholstery's worn through; they'd just get a slipcover and--presto!--it's good to go. Likewise, you don't need to get rid of your child just because it's winter...
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January 25, 2005
If you thought going on a walk with a kid and a latte was tough, try adding two dogs to the entourage. Chattanooga dad-to-be Damon faced just such a dilemma: Before Fuller was born, we anticipated the difficulty of...
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January 17, 2005
Guido Tschopp, a Swiss engineer, spent 14 years perfecting Sleepy, a set of four casters which, when placed under the corners of your kid's crib, helps "mimic the rhythmic movement of the uterus." Sleepy uses the baby's own movements...
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In a climactic scene of Braveheart, as the evil English prepare to execute him, Mel Gibson's character William Wallace, Scotland's founding father--think of a mash-up of George Washington and Adam Ant--cries out, "Freedom!" Now, by sheer coincidence, a well-rested, crying-free...
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January 15, 2005
DT reader Hadi is about a week away from the arrival of his baby, which means he has PLENTY of time to kill surfing around European baby sites and writing in-depth ruminations about the Quinny Zapp travel stroller and the...
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January 13, 2005
The website says "Made for Moms," the kid in this picture doesn't look all that thrilled with it, and dads aren't mentioned anywhere. But if you're looking for a way to carry a bottle around--whether it's the kid's or your...
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January 12, 2005
While most Dutch are revolutionizing stroller design, others are busy improving that grand European tradition of finding new ways to be naked in large groups. And in order to be totally comfortable flashing the French on a Riviera vacation, it's...
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January 11, 2005
I've heard from several people in the US the last couple of weeks who have tried to buy a Maxi-Cosi Cabrio carseat online, only to find out the European retailer won't ship to outside the EU. Is anyone else finding...
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December 22, 2004
Checking in on Odin Snowdeal, the web's most blogged about x-treemie, not only is he doing well and plumping up like a ballpark frank, he's started doing product endorsements. Odin (aka Eric IV) and his dad (Eric III) both love...
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December 21, 2004
The Short Answer: way too much. The Longer Answer: see below. [thanks to DT reader and new dad Bruce] Related, in a ripped off kind of way : What's in Your Gadget Bag, Glenn Fleishman? [homage/apologies to Gizmodo]...
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December 17, 2004
It's not just for babies anymore. Early DT reader Enoch Choi uncovers a new advance in personal monitor technology coming from Siemens. Called the MyAy--which I think is a Utah spelling of Mia or Maya; add it to your shortlist...
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November 28, 2004
Just got back from Thanksgiving at Grammy's house, and here's the epiphany I had at O'Hare, watching armies of dads lumbering under the weight--and bulk--of gigantic carseats while balancing carry-on luggage and personal pan pizzas, and while screaming after wandering,...
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October 27, 2004
As everyone who lived through the seventies knows, anti-slip stickers for the bathtub should be shaped like groovy flowers. But since there's nothing grosser than 30-year old bathtub stickers, Funmade makes new ones. They're cheap and easy to use. They...
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October 25, 2004
In 1937, two years after the first Trial of The Century--the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping/murder--had ended, Zenith introduced the Baby Nurse. Used in conjunction with the wireless Guardian Ear, this was possibly the earliest baby monitor around. The Radio Nurse was...
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October 9, 2004
The kid's been a little sniffly in the wake of her cold (Did I say sniffly? I meant she couldn't have more snot on her face if she lived in a rusted out trailer park). A few nights, it was...
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October 7, 2004
We've been friends with Cary Leibowitz for several years; he shows his paintings at Andrew Kreps Gallery in NYC. Last winter, when my wife was six months pregnant, we went to the opening of "Mama's Boy," a group exhibition at...
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October 5, 2004
We were walking around Hudson St. Sunday afternoon when we popped into Yoya and Yoyamart, a clothes shop and toy/gizmo/furniture shop, respectively. First, Yoya has an uncommonly cool selection of kids clothes, none of it particularly cheap. Yoyamart, meanwhile, is...
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October 3, 2004
I used to say, when I was a car-mad teenager, I would only ever have enough kids to fit in the backseat of a Porsche: two very small ones. Never mind that before the Boxster--a car designed to separate...
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September 29, 2004
Umm, let me rephrase that. Now you can simulate breastfeeding while giving your baby a bottle. Early on in dadhood, I wanted to post about a breast-like harness for dads I was sure I'd seen before somewhere. It was supposed...
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September 20, 2004
We don't have a baby monitor; it's not possible to get out of crying earshot in our apartment. So on our last visit to grandma's capacious (i.e., 2-story) house, I called one of our family-plan mobile phones from another (unlimited...
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September 17, 2004
From Italy, the land where chic, forward-thinking design is no match for plummeting birth rates, persistent gender stereotypes, and men who live with their mothers until they're 50, comes the Colibri, a "special, new, space-saving, and innovative" portable changing pad...
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September 7, 2004
"Haven't you ever heard of just holding up the diaper??" That bit of advice comes from weatherman/curmudgeon/author/dad Al Roker, who, we learn on this Today Show segment, "is too big for these." "These" are Weeblocks, soft jersey cotton-covered foam cups--as...
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September 4, 2004
If you're the type who can't say "urination" or "penis," 1) I don't know what you're doing on this site, and 2) the Pee-Pee Teepee for Sprinkling Wee-Wees is for you. Stop draping a diaper wipe or washcloth over your...
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August 30, 2004
With her two kids, Grace Welch found out what we've been finding out lately: it's damn hard to keep a wiggly kid on a rectangular changing pad. Unlike me, though, Grace did something about it. She designed a circular changing...
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August 23, 2004
Finally. After scouring sporting goods stores, tentmakers, and baby shops, I'd given up on finding a simple sunshade so we could take the kid outside (and not fry her while I lay my pasty self out). I want(ed) a tensile...
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August 21, 2004
While my nose has been buried in Japanese diapers, the UK has apparently been overrun by springloaded travel beds that fold up "as small as a dinner plate." Baby Chic 101 (a new blog with enough baby designer links to...
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August 18, 2004
Now the LL Bean camo tote bag is available with a zip-top and hooks for a shoulder strap, two features that I'm definitely missing on the one we bought last winter. The lack of a shoulder strap made it less...
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August 7, 2004
Well, as awesome as a system for sucking the snot out of your kid's nose gets, I guess. I found this Baby Mucous Sucking Device at the Baby Paradise superstore next to our hotel. It consists of two 9-inch or...
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July 28, 2004
OK, I gave them grief for the aromatherapy, but maybe hippychick's onto something. The Hipseat is basically a fannypack your kid can perch on. By extending this little shelf from your waist, you're able to hold a kid without thrusting...
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July 27, 2004
A friend in Minneapolis with a brand new kid calls his favorite nursery appliance--a wipe warmer--as "a sort of crock pot for wet fragrant tissue. It is awesome. It seems to cut the indignity of diaper changing, from the baby's...
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July 26, 2004
Actually, "sunnies" is Australian for sunglasses; Baby Banz is Australian for "infant sunglasses with built-in Croakies." These sunglasses have a neoprene strap that gives them a fighting chance at staying on a scrambling 9 month-old. Banz are Aussie-tested to block...
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July 22, 2004
Thomas Heaton, 44, a single United Methodist pastor in Nashville, Ind., has been making rice and beans for Sunday supper since adopting his son Manuel, 9, in Guatemala five years ago. (Because Guatemala is one of the few countries that...
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July 16, 2004
We got a pack of these 8 oz. cups w/lids to start the kid on solid foods. They're fine for mixing tiny amounts of rice cereal--not that she's actually eating any of it yet--but we find we're using them for...
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July 10, 2004
I've finally realized our kid's a mutant, and we're living a cheerful, never-aired episode of The X-Files. Not only does she sleep through the night--often after putting herself to sleep--she recently sprouted a couple of teeth with so little fuss,...
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July 5, 2004
Modernseed is selling this paper clip-looking bouncing chair for kids up to 18lbs. It comes in--surprise--pink or blue. It's very goodlooking, if a little more design-y than the solid navy blue Bjorn Babysitter. It's not adjustable. Brooklyn-based French designer Sophie...
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July 4, 2004
The Italian company Vice Versa Baby makes a bottle cleaner shaped like a carrot, and a bottle drying rack that looks like a little garden--complete with a little tulip. They also make a bottle with a cow's udder for the...
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July 1, 2004
In a piece of colossal celebrity baby non-endorsement, Matthew over at Defective Yeti describes what happened when the balance ball he was bouncing on to put his kid The Squirrelly to sleep exploded. The comments contain all sorts of "YOU...
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Move over, Gwyneth, there's a new Effect in town. A candid photo of a celebrity using a branded baby product causes a sudden spike in sales. Shoppers emptied the shelves at drugstores around the country when Trixie was photographed wearing...
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June 25, 2004
OK, Great Baby Products turns out to be the SkyMall of baby gear: thousands of Innovations you had no idea you needed, that solve hundreds of problems you didn't know you had, all pitched with breathless optimism and urgency. As...
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The Bib'Evianis only available in France, but it turns out you can buy adapters for putting a nipple on a standard drink bottle right here in the US. In fact, Great Baby Products practically demands you stick it to the...
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June 24, 2004
Dads should be the greatest beneficiaries of the Diaper Genie's magical powers. Even if you don't change every diaper (Remember EBB?), you're still probably the one to take out the trash. If that's the case, Playtex's Diaper Genie, like so...
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June 22, 2004
Late Sunday afternoon, we stopped in Philadelphia to get a cheesesteak at Abner's (not the best in town, sure, but good enough for the population of UPenn students who live all around it). As we parked, a large, two-tone carseat...
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June 21, 2004
To regular Daddy Types readers, this architect couple's dilemma hits home: "My husband and I were constantly looking for furniture, clothing, and toys that would complement our modern style. Unfortunately, it was much more difficult than we imagined." Not one...
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June 18, 2004
The kid went through a sniffly, congested phase a week ago, so be rolled out the needle-tipped squeezeball nosepicker to help her breathe. A couple of awkward attempts caused her to go into meltdown; and very soon, she'd start screaming...
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June 14, 2004
We got this blue-lidded, 3-chamber baby formula dispenser from Munchkin . But we found it leaks so much formula, we had to store it in a Ziploc bag. And it would occasionally leak from one partition to the next, screwing...
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An article this morning in the Deseret Morning News has Blurbomat dad Jon Armstrong sharing this good find, Huggies Disposable Changing Pads, which, he says, have "already saved grandma's carpet on two occasions." Get these at the drugstore; you don't...
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June 10, 2004
At first, it caught us off guard, now we're used to it, but we get stopped and/or talked about whenever we take the kid out in the stroller, especially by the dads. Nothing hurts more than having to meet...
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June 9, 2004
After buying the perfect carseat on the grey market which fits perfectly into our car, I haven't paid much attention to them. But Daddy Type Jay emailed in with a question about whether to get a car seat leveller to...
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June 4, 2004
Like the Friends haircut, capri pants for men, and those ugly sheepskin Ugg boots for anybody, ridiculously big, floppy sunshades on strollers are an instant, unfortunate trend, at least in NYC. They're from an Australian company called Pepeny, which is...
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June 3, 2004
The more you shell out for a stroller, the more you wonder about it getting stolen. In Georgetown last week, I saw a Mountain Buggy jogging stroller sitting empty and unattended in front of a townhouse for sale while (presumably)...
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June 1, 2004
I'm sorry. I admit, I have a closet full of Gucci shoes, way too much Gucci clothing, and even some Gucci luggage. But there's no way in hell I would ever step out with a Gucci baby carrier on. At...
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"Papooses are hot"? Papooses are sweltering. The Baby Bjorn may be Sweden's gift to enlightened parenthood, but it's pretty obvious these things were designed by someone living above the Arctic Circle. What I could use is a low-gear-quotient, hands-free way...
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Apparently the influx of straight families in Chelsea isn't all bad news for the (less-and-less) gay ghetto. Jeff Bennett, who's documenting his and his "Hubby's" sweet-as-pie trip down the surrogate road to fatherhood for Good Housekeeping Planet Out, writes about...
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May 31, 2004
If some rocker in England's got you worrying about which diaper bag is cool enough for you, here links to are some previous Daddy Types posts on the subject: Blending in With Camo Diaper Bags , Diaper Dude, aka...
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May 27, 2004
Double dad Bill Brown writes in, "I just bought two baby blankets that my girls adore. They're called Taggies, and they're nice fleece blankets with tags of all sorts sewn around the edges...I can't emphasize enough how much my daughters...
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It's not asking too much, is it? It's not that you should categorically NOT buy a Bugaboo because it doesn't come with a cupholder, any more than you SHOULD buy a Jeep stroller because it has four. It's just that...
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May 24, 2004
My kid brother, who's got a fresh PhD, an MD on the way, and two kids of his own, pointed me to this soft foam bath cradle, which they've found to be very useful and comfortable. It looks like a...
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May 19, 2004
So sue me. It turns out I did not invent fatherhood, and Daddy Types is not the first search for gear for kids. Kid Size: The Material World of Childhood is an exhibit at the Wadsworth Atheneum that explores three...
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May 10, 2004
Also from the International Juvenile Products Show: Mom Inventors ("Moms helping moms!") announced their latest product, TP Saver, designed to "baby proof your toilet paper!" TP Saver prevents your adventurous little kid from unfurling the whole roll of toilet...
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May 9, 2004
Bebesounds, "the juvenile products division of Unisar, Inc.," makes the best argument for dads to be involved in child care. While Ben MacNeil is writing software to take parenting into the 21st century with TrixieUpdate, Bebesounds launched a new product...
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May 5, 2004
It's not just a bottle, it's a way of life. Jonathan recommended the Dr Brown's Baby Feeding System for dealing with a colicky, gassy, or spit-up-prone kid. We tried it, and it works as advertised; since our kid is a...
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April 21, 2004
Once we decided on a Bugaboo stroller (or, technically, once grandpa said he wanted to buy us a stroller, any stroller), we figured we should get a car seat that would fit on it. For the US, that meant...
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We started our kid on bottles pretty early, one feeding a day (or in the middle of the night, so I could do it: MAJOR POINTS, guys.). The first bottles were from the Avent breastpump kit, and they're fine. A...
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11:41 AM
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April 16, 2004
My mother-in-law brought this back from the grocery store in France last summer. It's called a Bib'Evian, and it's an adapter so you can put a regular nipple on a bottle of Evian. It works on other water bottles,...
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April 12, 2004
According to the NY Post, Maclaren Techno XT strollers have a problem: the wheels fall off, and it pitches your kid into the street. [Q: Does this mean the brake failure of the 2002 model's finally solved?] "We're victims of...
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10:12 AM
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April 2, 2004
A couple of friends swear by this lightweight bouncing chair from Baby Bjorn. The springlike shape means a kid can bounce himself silly with every little squirm. It's definitely the best-looking seat I've seen; it'll let you hold off...
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March 19, 2004
Usually when you buy a diaper bag, you have to choose between cool, hip, and funky; you could never get all three. Until now. At Brooklyn's Urban Monster, you can get the Diaper Dude, "A cool hip funky diaper bag...
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10:35 PM
[via Gawker] Seeing these hand knit beer cozies for hipsters made me ask myself, "are there any hip hand knit baby bottle cozies out there?" The answer? Not from where I'm sitting......
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4:18 PM
It's the baby bottle equivalent of a retractable cell phone charger cable: a slightly more convenient, significantly gadget-nerdier replacement for standard equipment. And it looks suspiciously like hardware for the beer bong you're gonna bust the kid for 16 years...
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March 15, 2004
In addition to its high-tech child carriers, the outdoor gear maker Kelty has jogging strollers and this useful-looking item for hikers, a diaper fanny pack. [But don't look like an ass: use a fanny pack only when hiking.] Like Kelty's...
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11:08 PM
A dad got on my M7 bus yesterday as I was toolin' around with the kid in a Baby Bjorn. He had his 13-month-old daughter in a Back Country Child Carrier from Kelty, and he said it pretty much rocked....
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March 9, 2004
Looks like you can shop for all your Eddie Bauer baby needs in the Eddie Bauer Store at Babies R Us/Amazon. Heads up: the diaper bags are kind of fugly. You'd just be buying them for the somewhat manly brand...
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7:54 PM
There are three Eddie Bauer playpen models on the Cosco corporate site, including one that's a little too Ralph Lauren Home Collection for me. The Sport Playard is the only one with a tent-like sun canopy for parking your...
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February 13, 2004
I guess the theory goes, if it's camo, no one will see it. Or at least they won't notice it's a diaper bag. If you subscribe to that "huh? what bag?" approach Here are three options Fleurville's feature-loaded diaper Alpha...
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February 12, 2004
Unlikely as it sounds, a company called Fleurville makes a very decent-looking dad-friendly diaper bag, if you choose the right material. (They finally introduced black canvas this month. Yes, they have camo, too.) The Alpha 7 is loaded with...
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