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Slap Bracelets Making a Comeback and People Using Pay Phones to Show Their Love


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Since all the grown ups are in to their fitness trackers, why not get the kids involved? The Kid-Fit band is a slap bracelet that allows parents and kids to work together to set exercise goals and even sleeping goals. The kids earn rewards on the wearable and parents can easily tie real- world rewards in too. Kid-Fit is for kids age 5 to 13, works with both android and IOS and costs $40. 3D animation just got a whole lot easier thanks to something like an animation joystick. Developers in Zurich built these blocks that you connect together to resemble a virtual character. The embedded sensors transfers any movement to the screen. A filmmaker decided to put pay phones back into action in this fun experiment. All he did was tape quarters to a payphone with a sign that said "call someone you love" and people did it. Matt Adams says a payphone is more personal than the limitless cell phone calls we make these days, because you are fully concentrating on the call, not walking around with so many distractions all around you. What an easy way to put a smile on someone's face and just think, you could do it even without a free quarter.

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