Teen Dies After Refusing To Let Go of iPad

Teen Dies After Refusing To Let Go of iPad

“Never in my life would I imagine that buying my kid an iPad for his birthday would end up getting him run over,” the father said.

Now, I heard that iPad has become a yardstick for children to measure if “parents love them”. Wow was the expression astonishment that pop up in my mind when I heard this. The iPad is really get the influence in our kids world. In future, maybe there’s a kasta between kids who have iPad and kids who don’t. And it would be like earth-and-sky gap.

Things have been getting serious when the news broke, saying that a teenager was ran over by two criminals after he refused to let go of his iPad. Why the kid had chosen iPad over his life when something dangerous like this happened. Can I conclude that the iPad is more valuable than RM1499?

Kids. They don’t know they can die. They don’t know they’re vulnerable. They picture their life like Lego: Star Wars game (I mention this game because my kids love playing this on Wii). They thought themselves like Anakin Skywalker character, where you can jumps off the edge, facing death as they disappeared, off the screen and reappear again a few seconds later with a blinking form factor, full of health as he continued the journey.

Marcos Arenas’ death startled me with a serious thinking about educating my kids. This is how they must react when they are facing a dangerous moment: always choose life above all.

Friends, family remember teen killed over iPad via Fox5Vegas


Update: Two men have been arrested in the killing of a teenage boy over an iPad in Las Vegas

Accidentally Trapped Inside A Car: A Solution.

Accidentally Trapped Inside A Car: A Solution.

I’m still feeling sympathy with the unfortunate children being trapped inside a car. If it’s happened to my son or daughter, I simply lost my sanity to continue to be functional as a normal father, a husband, and may be even a responsible adult. May be get drunk every day, still couldn’t accept the fact my children gone in a bad tragedy.

Most of parent may be still remember or at least, have a glimpse of tradegic memory of a child that was accidentally locked in a school van. The weather in Malaysia is so hot: it’s like seven inches from the mid-day sun. You stand outside just for 5 minutes and you will be feeling nausea and headache. Eventually, the child died with severe major organs malfunctioned due to the overheated effect. Some expert claimed that the atmosphere inside the van itself had turned to — what we know infamously — a greenhouse effect.

Surprisingly, average death for being accidentally trapped in a car in USA, since 1998 is 38 children.

38 children,
38 endless tears,
38 nightmares,
every year,
for the last 15 years.

I felt sorry for them. And the thought of that statistics has been terrorizing my sleep for several days now.

It’s grateful to hear that students of John Hopkins University have come up with new invention to resolve this problem. With the idea of using Kinect sensor of X360, I hope this preventable death, like what Eileen McDonald said, will decrease or will not happen at all after this.

Here’s the idea of the well-derived technology:

The device uses an infrared camera and projector to sense the movements of a game player and incorporates these motions into what is happening on the video screen. The students thought the same technology could sense even the most subtle movements of a baby sleeping in a rear car seat.

Remembering the tragedy  that had happened somewhere in Kuala Kubu Bharu, Selangor, I hope the government will implement mandatory policy to apply the sensor on every permitted school transportation to avoid any further.

Link : [ Video game device could help save children trapped in overheated cars | HUB ]

Educational Tablet Games for Kids

Educational Tablet Games for Kids

Kids love using new technology and it seems like increasingly younger children are drawn to the shiny allure of tablets. Instead of fighting it, many developers are capitalizing on children’s interest in tablets and technology to create educational games and apps for kids. From the alphabet to programming, kids can learn pretty much anything on a tablet. Here’s a run-down of some of the coolest educational tablet apps and games for children.

Alphabet and Phonics

  • My A-Z is a flashcard app aimed at preschoolers. What makes this app stand out from other alphabet learning aids is that kids can personalize the flashcards. Including, for instance, a picture of their dog for D. The app guides children in taking pictures of objects to fill in the cards and is a good way for kids to associate real things in their life with the letters they’re learning.
  • The Singing Alphabet features letters who sing about their own sounds. The catchy tunes make kids want to sing along and it teaches them to associate the letter with the sound.

Math

  • Times Tables: Squeebles Multiplication is for slightly older children who are learning their times tables. The app uses cute characters that walk children through learning and practicing multiplication. Children can earn stars as they improve their skills and the app also lets up to four people make profiles on the same device.
  • Counting with the Very Hungry Caterpillar is a counting app that has features the titular character from The Very Hungry Caterpillar. In using the app, children identify, count, and add foods over five levels. The game is appropriate to children just learning to count or to do basic arithmetic.
  • Little Digits is a game for children just learning to count. It works by having children place their fingers on the tablet’s screen and then displaying a cartoon number so that children can learn the number symbols.

Maps, Technology, and Other Subjects

  • Barefoot World Atlas teaches children about the world and is great for kids with an interest in maps and geography. The app includes an interactive 3D globe that has music and animation for various countries, people, and nature.
  • HomeWork is an app for older kids that helps them schedule homework and study time. It lets them set reminders and generally teaches them how to effectively manage their time. The app is quite intuitive and works best on a tablet.
  • How to Make Paper Airplanes does exactly what you would expect it to do. While its educational value is perhaps arguable, learning how to follow directions and building plans could be perfect for the future engineer in your life.
  • Where’s My Water is hosted by an alligator named Swampy who loves to be clean. This is a physics-based game intended to teach kids basic spatial reasoning, problem solving, and physics skills.
  • Move the Turtle is an app that teaches the basics of computer programming by asking kids to plan tasks. Complete with friendly turtle mascot, this app teaches kids to think like a programmer without necessarily covering the nuts and bolts of computer language.
  • Ultimate Dinopedia: Complete Dinosaur Reference covers children’s most beloved subject: dinosaurs! Produced by National Geographic, this app includes statistics, facts, pictures, and a story about every dinosaur kids could possibly have questions about.
  • IBM Think is a cool app that uses charts and pictures to share the history of technology. It has five interactive modules: Seeing, Mapping, Understanding, Believing, and Acting, plus it has a 10 minute film about technology innovation. This is a great app for hooking kids into an interest in technology in all its forms.

Angie Picardo is a writer at NerdWallet, a financial literacy site where you can find advice on topics ranging from apps to retirement success.

Small GPS to track your children

Small GPS to track your children

If you worried about child abduction, there’s a a technology called Amber Alert GPS that can track your children and give prompt alert whenever you notice that your children don’t show up when the school time is over and you’ve been waiting for more than one hour.

The tracking device is tiny enough to conceal in your kids’ bag or in the pocket. But it will burn your pocket as much as 218.99 dollar. That’s about RM 648.76 . I have a son and a daughter. So I have to save more than RM 1297.52 if I count with the shipping fee.

But people said you can get money back but you can’t never get back your precious ones once they lost. So, to me, money is not a problem.

I heard people said that — based on the statistics — crime has plunged when compared to last year, but the fear of crime has never got any lower from my view. Because I always sense danger when I left my children playing outside of our house unattended. The world has changed. My children will never get a childhood memory as monumental as mine, where I could — endlessly — play outside as far as 5km away from my house, from the sunrise to sunset.

Even with a tracking device like this that might relieve you in some ways, I still like to monitor them when they are playing outside. I only feel secured when they are lingering in my eyes.

It’s a lot money. I know. It’s like a year worth of saving. But security of our children must not be compromised. I don’t want to lose my children, and if I lost them, I lost the will to live.

[ Amber Alert GPS via Technology Can Help Keep Kids Safe from Abductors]

Should I be worried about the iPad addiction?

Should I be worried about the iPad addiction?

Widad laid on her back and relax like she got insurmountable amount of money from somewhere, the bottle glued in her mouth while watching an iPad in one beautiful evening — it’s a mesmerizing moment and I admired the coolness of this shot above.  But the news I’ve read startled me a little.  Because my youngest one can’t hold off the iPad, even when she’s taking a poop. Should I be worried?

Young technology addicts experienced the same withdrawal symptoms as alcoholics or heroin addicts, when the devices were taken away.

Is it really that bad? I mean, heroin addicts? Maybe the doctor was a little bit exaggerated or may be he’s on weed he couldn’t think straight.

Christopher Peruzzi says that this situation cycles from the sixties, back when we — human — had the new technology then. We called it TV. He said, “Really? When you overstimulate someone with a highly addictive activity it can be habit forming? I wonder if they thought the same thing during the sixties and beyond when they left kids in front of televisions as an electronic babysitter. Sure, now they care.”

But I know and it’s a principle of life: Letting yourself doing a little too much over something might harm you. Too much watching TV, too much exercising, or too much in everything, and you might vomit rainbow.

[ Toddlers becoming so addicted to iPads they require therapy | The Telegraph ]

Thailand to draw out second phase One Tablet Per Child Project

Thailand to draw out second phase One Tablet Per Child Project

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” Nelson Mandela used to say. That’s superb and one of my neighbor nations has taken it deeply into their heart. I think I’m going to cry, though I didn’t know him but his words are awesome and arising.

To continue using technology as a leverage to make advance in youngster’s education, Thailand sets an electronic auction to make One Tablet Per Child project a reality. Guys, it’s worth 4.61 billion Thailand bath. It’s about RM 500 million if it’s round up.

Big Chinese players like Huawei, Haier, and ZTE have joined the bidding. And I’m wondering why our Malaysian government don’t take initiative like this?

[ 12 firms keen to join One Tablet bid | BangkokPost ]

Does Technology Hinder Or Help Toddlers’ Learning?

Does Technology Hinder Or Help Toddlers’ Learning?

As I’m watching my own daughter’s growth as she’s learning faster with an iPad at her hand, I would say technology help toddlers’ learning.

As good as technology helps disabled people do many things

As good as technology helps amputees father gets his new advanced iPhone-controlled hands.

As good as technology helps mankind to save the world 

But it is true, like the article claim, No such technologies that could make a child genius. It helps my kids, my little, witty daughter learns ABC faster by sing along ABC song from YouTube videos.

But sometimes I can’t help myself laughing out loud to see my children swiping intuitively every time they found screen — any legit screen — especially TV screen at an electronic shop like SenHeng or SenQ. They frowned a few second when they realized it’s not a touch-capable screen.

Does technology hinder or helps toddlers’ learning? BBC news might have the answer.

Widad is 3 today!!!

Widad is 3 today!!!

I seldom talk about Widad. My daughter. The one who gives me daily headache, the one who put a big grin on my face, the one who do things beyond my thinking, the one who is looking for me at night to sleep with, the one who has super power although time show 12 midnight. She is Widad Safiyyah. No matter what she does, I love her so much. A day without her, I feel the world is so silent and quiet.

fe19f26a736a11e2a1e322000a9e0853_7If you see this spiderwoman in motion car, what do you expect this mother to do?? This is the daily madness that i need to go through with her

copilotWhat am I supposed to do when I saw this face. Melting .
One day, I received a report from her teacher :
Teacher :  Pn, Widad is biting her friend – showing the two teeth marked.
Me : Adik, why do you bites your friend
Widad : Gigi adik tajam (My teeth is sharp)
Me : Should I scold her or laugh there and then.

7cfbbd207a1e11e2949722000a1f90e1_7You see this so called nice and behave kid shows thumb up and said I’m good at making pancake. Do you know she is shouting like someone is beating her up when the batter is finished. Not to mention the aftermath she did on the floor. Just forget it. She is exploring and in the learning process

baju dadiWear my t-shirt, stole my heart . My heart skip a beat..

diaper onlyYou’ve been punished. Your cloth must be dried and comfortable enough to wear. Until then, wear diaper and diaper only. Yet she still smiling.

 

Happy 3 Year Old Widad

Internet Paling Laju Di Dunia Berada Di Jepun

Internet Paling Laju Di Dunia Berada Di Jepun

Alangkah bagus rakyat Jepun menikmati kelajuan ini. Kalaulah di Malaysia sebegini laju. Macam kita cuma bayangkan dalam pemikiran kita dan — woosh — sampai di laman web yang kita inginkan. Tidak perlu klik pada tetikus. Tapi yang itu laju sangat.

Berikut adalah maklumat-maklumat penting:

  1. Internet talian fiber optik ini dilancarkan oleh So-net, rakan niaga Sony.
  2. Muat turun sehinggga 2 Gbps (Downloads) – dua gigabit setiap saat.
  3. Muat naik 1 Gbps (Uploads) – satu gigabit setiap saat
  4. 2 tahun kontrak untuk 4,980 yen setiap bulan, lebih kurang USD 50 (RM 150/sebulan)
  5. Yuran Instalasi sebanyak 52,500 yen, lebih kurang USD 540 (RM 1800)

Membaca berita ini membuatkan aku marah. Aku bayar setiap bulan pada TM sebanyak RM150 dan hanya mempunyai kelebihan muat turun 5Mbps. (RM150/5Mbps) Sungguh rip-off. Sayang, jom packing, kita pindah Jepun!

[sumber: engadget ]

Google Glass dibida setinggi RM 290,000 Di eBay Sebelum Ditarikbalik

Google Glass dibida setinggi RM 290,000 Di eBay Sebelum Ditarikbalik

Cermin mata berteknologi tinggi — mampu mengambil gambar, merekod video, konferensi video, GPS, dan membuat carian — Google Glass telah dibida setinggi $95,300 di eBay sebelum pemiliknya kemudian menarik balik gajet itu dari laman web tersebut.

Seorang pelajar yang ingin dikenali hanya sebagai Ed dari philadelphia (Ed From Philadelphia) antara salah satu dari pemenang-pemenang pertandingan Google Explorer. Hadiahnya adalah — berpeluang untuk menikmati teknologi cermin mata Google Glass yang sofistikated dengan harga lebih kurang RM 4500 ($1500). (Bersamaan dengan harga Macbook Retina Display)

Dengan semangat gajet membakar dirinya, dia membeli cermin tersebut dengan menggunakan pinjaman pengajiannya, lebih kurang macam PTPTN. Dan cuba untuk mengaut keuntungan dengan menjual semula gajet tersebut melalui laman web eBay. Margin tersebut membolehkan dia top up kembali baki pinjamannya.

Walau bagaimana tinggi keuntungan sekalipun, dia menyedari bahawa dia telah melanggar terma dan syarat yang telah termaktub:

If you resell, loan, transfer, or give your device to any other person without Google’s authorization, Google reserves the right to deactivate the Device, and neither you nor the unauthorized person using the Device will be entitled to any refund, product support, or product warranty.



Sekiranya anda menjual semula, memberi pinjam, menukar hal milik, atau memberi peranti kepada mana-mana individu tanpa kebenaran, Google berhak to untuk menyahaktifkan peranti tersebut, dan tidak kira sama ada anda atau individu lain yang tidak boleh menikmati sebarang pengembalian wang, bantuan produk, atau warantinya.

Menyedari Google Glass miliknya akan meletup dengan sendirinya sekiranya kantoi, dia membatalkan pembidaan yang sedang berlangsung selama 4 hari itu. Ada juga yang menghubungi Ed secara terus melalui mesej untuk membeli dengan harga $8000 sehingga $10,000 (bersamaan sebuah kereta Perodua Viva), dia tetap dengan pendiriannya untuk tidak menjual.

Google Glass merupakan sebuah produk inovasi dari Google yang dibangunkan sejak 2011 dan akan dijual secara komersil seawal suku kedua 2013. Berita ini dianggap fenomena kerana orang ramai sanggup membayar gajet tersebut dengan harga yang macam nak kena kaki dengan aku walaupun Google Glass tersebut akan menembusi pasaran tidak lama lagi.


Sumber | Forbes

Hopscotch: Mendidik Anak Anda Tentang Programming

Hopscotch: Mendidik Anak Anda Tentang Programming

Mahukah anda — sebagai seorang bapa — melihat anak anda menjadi the next Mark Zuckerberg atau Steve Wozniak, yang memillki ilmu pengetahuan ICT yang tinggi dan mampu mengubah dunia, sekaligus berjaya menaikkan nama Malaysia? Aa.. Dan kaya-raya? Hmm.. Mata duitan betul.

Cuba, try, test, tengok: Mendidik anak anda dengan Hopscoth. Sebuah aplikasi Aturcara Bahasa iPad or iPad Programming Languange yang membolehkan anak anda jatuh cinta dengan aturcara. “Learning Code Fun For Kids” merupakan moto utama 5 orang usahawan dalam pasukan Hopscotch ini.

Matlamat utama Hopscotch menurut pengasas aplikasi ini, Jocelyn Leavitt, adalah untuk membolehkan kanak-kanak seawal umur 10 tahun memahami teknologi di belakang tabir sistem iPad itu sendiri.

“Pada tahun 2018, 2.4 juta pekerjaan Sains Komputer dijangkakan di US,”

-Jocelyn Leavitt

Ok, 2.4 juta pekerjaan. Jumlah itu boleh menandingi hampir separuh penduduk Lembah Klang. Maka, dilihatkan di sini masa depan bidang ICT tersangat cerah. Aturcara atau programming mudah difahami sekiranya anda senang dengan konsep Logik Matematik.

Sumber: AllThingsD

Tangan Bionic Yang Mengubah Dunia Seorang Bapa

1. Nasib baik boleh lagi berfungsi sepuluh jariku, and masih lagi memegang rekod pekerja paling pantas menaip di office. Cerita pasal seorang bapa yang kehilangan kedua-dua belah tangannya membuatkan aku rasa bersyukur dengan apa yang ada. Tetapi, yang membuatkan dia famous adalah beliau dianugerahkan dengan tangan robotik, boleh dikawal oleh iPhone.

2. Tanggal 1hb Mac 2008, Jason Koger telah terkena kejutan letrik, menyalurkan 7,200 volt ke seluruh badannya. Kemalangan yang hampir meragut nyawanya berlaku apabila beliau terlanggar wayar letrik yang terputus ketika menaiki ATV (lebih kurang macam go-kart punya kenderaan). Jason Koger, bapa kepada dua anak perempuan, terpaksa menjalani pembedahan tangan untuk menyelamatkan nyawa. Sejak dari itu, beliau sedar keadaan ini akan mengubah arus hidupnya.

3. Berpengalaman selama 50 tahun dalam inovasi prostetik, Touch Bionics telah mencipta teknologi tangan prostetik yang mampu melakukan modifikasi dari iPhone atau telefon mudah alih pintar melalui hubungan bluetooth.

4. Antara kelebihan-kelebihan atau features daripada tangan bionic / robotic ini adalah:

    1. Patent-pending vari-grip mode: pengguna boleh mengubah variasi pergerakan tangan digit demi digit kekuatan cengkaman.
    2. Pilihan isyarat tangan yang meluas membolehkan pengguna mencipta pergerakan baru.
    3. Tiga cengkaman tripod yang baharu untuk meningkatkan fleksibilti pengguna.
    4. Genggaman yang teguh secara automatik to mengelakkan daripada objek daripada jatuh dengan tidak sengaja.
    5. Tangan secara semula jadi kembali ke posisi asal setelah tiada aktiviti dilakukan dalam jangka masa yang lama.

5. Jason Koger merupakan manusia yang pertama menggunakan tangan bionic untuk menggantikan kedua-dua belah tangannya. Jason Koger juga tinggal sedikit sahaja lagi untuk menandingi Luke Skywalker. Kekurangan dia hanya tiada kuasa Jedi Force. Menurut video ini, tangan bionic ini telah berada di pasaran. So, sesiapa kepada pengila-gila gajet di luar sana, jangan mengada-ngada potong tangan sendiri semata-mata untuk memiliki tangan bionic ini.

Someone raised a question at Quora about leaving her child unattended for one minute. “How long can you leave a baby unattended in a car? Assuming it’s not too hot or cold out, and you leave the motor running. Also, assuming it’s a safe neighborhood”. There’s one particular answers that I find hilarious: “For the amount of time it takes to travel from the driver’s door to the passenger door (Miguel Valdespino, professional amateur)”. One answer that is brutally honest is ZERO.

If you leave your baby with the motor car running, here’s a horror story from Justin Freeman, Former Patrol Officer:

When I was a police officer, we had a situation one night when a father left his vehicle running with a baby in the car seat to duck into a business in a strip mall. A car thief, seeing the opportunity (but not the baby), slipped into the vehicle and took off. The father frantically called 911 and reported it as a kidnapping – which set our entire department into swarm mode as officers got pulled off of other calls to saturate the area.

Well, you CANNOT leave your baby alone. Like. Ever. A baby has a gifted talent to blow up things in 100 meter radius when he feels lonely. Well, at least that was my imagination when I have a thought to take a nap while nannying my baby . Do not compromise your baby safety, because if you do that, if you are in my circle of friends, I’ll lose my respect upon you.

Daughter found fossil, scientist to decide to name it after her

BBC – Daisy Morris from the Isle of Wight stumbled upon the remains on Atherfield beach four years ago. A scientific paper stated the newly discovered species of pterosaur would be called Vectidraco daisymorrisae. Fossil expert Martin Simpson said this was an example of how “major discoveries can be made by amateurs”. Daisy’s mum Sian Morris said her daughter had started fossil hunting aged three and came across the blackened “bones sticking out of the sand” in 2009, when she was four years old

An extinct dinosaur named after a daughter!! If this was Widad, I would grant a small castle for my little girl, complete with fossil-digging gadgets. Since my daughter’s talent was being recognized, I made it clear to rail my daughter’s career at early age — a path to become paleontologist  But as far as I’m concern, in this country, there’s no fossil to be found. In fact, I have sense that my daughter has no interest in collecting fossil. She has no interest in collecting anything.

If she ought to collect something, she wants it for one reason — just like other toys that I have bought for her: to bend and break.

Tech Writings On The Net, 1st – 6th April, 2013

Tune in: The new facebook home, which is still unavailable to my Samsung Galaxy S2.

In the meantime.. Bring technology to dinner table makes you — speak less? Wow, there are tools to get your kids out of the house. iPad can bring menace your kids brain development. Secure your iPhone, secure your kids. Board game — Migration — brings a whole new exciting experience. Monitoring smartphone, tablet apps is a must to reduce risk of unwanted danger.

Articles Worth Reading

The Child, the Tablet and the Developing Mind

and if people spend too much time with one technology, and less time interacting with people like parents at the dinner table, that could hinder the development of certain communications skills.

Use This Tech to Get Your Kids Off the Couch

Technology is ingrained in our kids’ lives but instead of blaming it for rising levels of obesity, perhaps we can use their reliance on tech to their health advantage and leverage it as a motivating tool to get them more active.

The Terrible Truth About Toddlers and Touchscreens

The American Academy of Pediatrics is unambiguous about time spent with screens . It says any at all is bad for children under a certain age. “Television and other entertainment media should be avoided for infants and children under age 2. A child’s brain develops rapidly during these first years, and young children learn best by interacting with people, not screens.”

Securing your iOS device for your children

There has been a string of high-profile cases where children have racked up thousands of dollars in credit card charges through in-app purchases. In these cases and others like them, the iOS devices used by the children have not been properly locked down by the parents.

Migration: A Story of Generations Game Review

The complexity of the game is all based on how good your opponents are and how well the individual player selected their Explorers. Since the game is designed to squeeze players out, the player who picked the best Explorers doesn’t necessarily win. The player who uses their Explorer tokens the smartest, does. But since what the player is going up against is random and dependent on their opponents, the only thing a player can do is intelligently react and be as aggressive as possible, while not migrating themselves into a corner.

Smartphone, tablet apps pose risk to children

Arnason is also warning parents about the dangers of apps. She said too often apps allow children to be contacted by strangers through the internet and often without the parent’s knowledge.

Geeky News

  1. 6 intriguing research projects from Microsoft labs
  2. Kid-Friendly Android-Powered MiiPC Blows Past Its $50k Kickstarter Goal In One Day
  3. Want to save your child from ‘sexting’ bullies? Here’s my simple solution…
  4. How to Keep Your Child Safe on an iPad
  5. My dad, the mobile phone early adopter

 

 

Forbidden teacher-student relationship, bricked by iPhone tracking app

Forbidden teacher-student relationship, bricked by iPhone tracking app

His dad is a tech savvy person. Well, the dad might have been sniffing something funny around his own son. He installed a tracking app on his son iPhone and found that his son was having an affair with the teacher. 

Dickson was arrested March 20 and is expected to be charged with an improper relationship between an educator and a student and online solicitation of a minor. He was free Monday after posting $15,000 bail. Dickson could not be reached for comment.

-Domingo Ramirez Junior, Star Telegram

According to the articles, they were having a meet up in a church when the police came up with the warrant.

Beware, geek dads like us will dominate your world. Code up, kids. you may get scripted!

[Link: Affidavits describe Colleyville teacher's relationship with student]

OUYA Founding Backer Edition: The Review

Engadget received the first founding backer edition of OUYA game console. Now, what’s interesting about the console is that it’s based on android, the open-source technology.

This device gains popularity because of it’s openness and insanely low price.

The $99 console game would be the best for casual gamers like me and other busy dads who always get caught with unfinished daily routine.

But before you burn your hard earned money on this, Here are some highlights about OUYA consoles:

  1. The faceplate that can be took off is not properly fit with the controller and it’s somehow annoying. You’ll find out it unpleasant because you always get stucked when you use 2nd analog joystick to make 360 degree movement.
  2. As of now, the game selection is very limited. The founder is still inviting gaming developers to porting their games to the console
  3. There’s no serious game to be found at this time that is worth our time.
  4. There’s no playing-online game and no social media element like you want to know what’s your friend is playing, but that’s not a dealbreaker for me.
  5. You should not be expecting to get full-fledged gaming experience as compared with other gaming consoles like Playstation or Xbox.

Engadget rates it as disappointing. The official retail launch is expected to be in June. So, There are still more rooms to improve before it gets out to the masses.

OUYA Project profile on kickstarter

Watch the kickstarter video here

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