The New Year 2011- What to look out for

This year J Walter Thompson compipiled a list of the top 100 things to look out for. Amoungst these is Tablets for Tots. This is slide 87, page 96 on this website: http://www.slideshare.net/jwtintelligence/2f-100-things-to-watch-in-2011-6306251.

This is all about giving children, as young as six, the chance to use iPads and other android devices at school. This will help them learn and it will increase their knowledge of technology. One type of touch-screen device coming out is the Isabella Product's Fable. It has a screen 7 inches across and is very durable. You can also take photos, draw, write and play games on these devices.



This is an Isabella 'Fable'


As you can see they are very simple and they look quite sturdy. They also come in different colours so that children have a bigger selection. If I was a small child I would definately want one of these!

These products come out in mid-2011 so all you parents out there watch out!

The New Year 2011

As we're entering the new year I thought it would be interesting to see what will be new and important this year. J Walter Thompson has made a list of the top one hundred things to look out for and I have chosen to talk to you about number 92: Tintin the Movie.

We're all familiar with the Tintin episodes, my favourite being The Blue Lotus. They usually consist of Tintin, a reporter, and his faithful companion going on adventures to find out information or to get a good story. He has many friends such as Captain Archibald Haddock, the Thompson twins and Professor Cuthbert Calculus and they normally help him on these missions.

Aswell as the episodes the author,  Georges Rémi, made short books about Tintin and his friends. These were then later made into episodes and sold to everyone in varying languages. In fact it has been translated from its original language of French to over 80 other languages. Also more than 350 million copies of the bookhave been sold since  Georges Rémi started to sell them.

But now in 2011 the production team who made the episodes have gone a step further... They hope to make a movie about Tintin called: The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. It is a mixture of the episodes: The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure. Thankfully for all us Tintin fans this is only the first of a trilogy of movies. The movie has been put in the spot light as it is being directed by Steven Spielburg and has a cast which includes Simon Pegg and Daniel Craig.

The movie is due to come out in November but the exact date for the UK has not been confimed. I hope you all enjoyed this short overview of the new movie and I hope you all enjoy it when it comes out, thank you.