Since the beginning of smartphones, parents have been trying to get kids to put them down in favor of a book. Amazon doesn’t think the two should be at odds.… Read More
Legos. Pokemon. Minecraft. Robots. Science. Space travel. If you’ve got a geeky kid who can’t get one (or all) of those things out of his or her mind, we’ve got… Read More
A team of middle schoolers from Bellevue, Wash., nicknamed the Space Potatoes, captured the top prize at the 2016 Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) National Finals. The five-student team from Odle… Read More
This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: A new study by the University of Washington questions the effectiveness of the two-minute warning when it comes to ending kids’ screen time.… Read More
TeenSafe, a service that allows parents to view their kids’ text messages, phone logs, web history, and activity on a variety of apps, was recently updated to include Tinder. According… Read More
When Anna Steffeney‘s Microsoft co-workers in Redmond, Wash., heard about her pregnancy, some told her to “keep it in as long as possible.” She left Microsoft not long after and did not return.… Read More
Conventional wisdom may still say video games are a bad thing, but the evidence is slowly piling up: Moderate video gaming is associated with emotional and intellectual intelligence. A new study… Read More
Getting kids to read amidst distractions like TV and the internet can be tough. But a new app from Bellevue, Wash.-based BookWhiz Media lets parents set up rewards for reading, and… Read More
Hey parents: You won’t believe the contracts your kids have been roped into. Like a fine print virus spreading quickly around the globe, under-aged teenagers are suddenly being shrink-wrapped into… Read More
GeekWire invited dozens of kids and their parents to our offices in Seattle recently for a special video series that premiered at last week’s GeekWire Summit. We asked them a… Read More
Some want to be astronauts, scientists or entrepreneurs, others want to solve global warming, prevent meteors from colliding with Earth or build self-driving cars. Meet GeekWire’s 2015 class of “Future… Read More
Last month, Kimberly and Rebecca Yeung launched a balloon to the edge of space, and have since gotten attention from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory,… Read More
Our guests on the GeekWire radio show this week are Rebecca Yeung, 10, and Kimberly Yeung, 8 — two sisters from Seattle who built a spacecraft out of wood, broken arrow shafts… Read More
On Saturday, a handmade craft rose 78,000 feet to capture the view from the edge of space. The craft, built by two Seattle youngsters, reached speeds of over 100 km/h on… Read More
OK, parents, admit it: How much do you use your smartphone when you’re at the playground with your kids? Our guests on this week’s GeekWire radio show have been studying that very… Read More
A couple of weeks ago someone asked me what the best gaming headphones are, and I realized he probably wasn’t the only one wondering. There are a few things to keep… Read More
If you’re looking to buy an Xbox One, you’ve got two choices: with Kinect or without. Buying the system without Kinect knocks $100 off the price, but if you’ve got… Read More
One of the biggest challenges in the world of science and technology is gender diversity — boosting the number of women going into technical fields. So what about starting with the… Read More
At PAX East this year I got to demo Osmo—an educational accessory for iPads. It’s intended to get kids to work together solving problems around a screen. So how does it work?… Read More
It was a startling and bizarre thing to see early in the morning. I was checking my guild’s website while enjoying my first coffee of the day. On the front… Read More
The world of video games can be a tough one for parents and kids to navigate — trying to find titles that are not only fun but also educational and age-appropriate.… Read More
Family-friendly media and technology startup Happly has raised $1.45 million, according to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Happly (formerly known as Daily Interactive Networks) is a Seattle-based… Read More
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about parenting, it’s that no one has any idea what they’re doing. That strikes me as the right frame of mind to bring to… Read More
Lesley Baker is a software developer and mother of two. When her oldest son started struggling with physical pain, she found a way to use her skills to help kids… Read More
When University of Washington instructor Ana Redmond noticed her daughter struggling with basic math in school, she decided to take matters into her own hands. As a software developer, she had… Read More
LAS VEGAS – CES is bursting at the seams with wearable and health-tracking technology for adults, but a couple of companies we came across are bringing wearable technology to babies… Read More
Mattel faced a huge backlash recently for a passage in its Barbie book, “I Can Be A Computer Engineer,” which implied that girls can’t code. So you already know what not to get the young… Read More
The ubiquity of mobile devices and streaming video has changed the entertainment landscape, as an increasing number of viewers now watch TV and movies via streaming services like YouTube, Netflix, and… Read More
A few weeks ago, GeekWire put out a casting call on the site for geeky kids, inviting their parents to bring them into the GeekWire offices to answer questions about… Read More
Two years ago at a Startup Weekend Women’s Edition event, former Amazon and Microsoft user experience designer Adriana Moscatelli was inspired to address the gender imbalance in the tech industry. She wanted… Read More