Dale and Teresa bring you the pre-Christmas episode that ended up being much about mobile phones--we're not sure why. We also have an interview again! And for the first time in months, no lead paint stories!

Toy News:

• MoPods: Monsters and fireworks and cellphones, oh my!

Tech News:

• Helio Ocean Phone gives full YouTube access
• Windows Vista Successor: the iPhone killer?!
• Sleep.fm, the social network-powered alarm clock
• Google Knowl challenges About.com and Wikipedia

Interview

This week, we talk to Stacy DeBroff, parenting expert, bestselling author, and founder of MomCentral.com. She talks about keeping up with your kids' technology and the amazing world they're growing up in.
The phone line had some static, and we filtered most of it, but parts of it suffered lower audio quality. We apologize.

Video Game News and Reviews:

• Rock Band vs. Guitar Hero: Peripherals passing in the night
• Voice Chat coming for Wii?
• Wii Chess

Reviews

No big review this week, just a bunch of little ones.
New reviews at our website:

• VTech Double Vision Notebook
• Nintendogs for Nintendo DS
• Leapfrog WordLaunch
• Polaroid Pixie Digital Video Camera
• kajeet mobile phone service for kids

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Next time:

• A Special Christmas Treat

Christmas music by Nu Beat

Music by Kevin McLeod