Smart Apps 4 Kids have announced Rhyme-N-Time 1.0, their brand new educational app for iPad devices. Rhyme-N-Time combines a rhyming storybook and charming game wrapped in an educational learning tool. Rhyme-N-Time keeps track of how the child is performing with various statistics as they move throughout the game. The app allows the child to see uppercase or lowercase letters, plus the ability to use images and words or just the word for clues when trying to match rhyming words.

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Portland should have one of these. Notable for a surprisingly sane lack of the T-word on the front page. (In fact, the only mention I can find of the T-word on the front page is immediately followed by the word "marketing", which, well...)

"Smart people can take something complex and express it faithfully in different, especially simper, terms. They can interpret and reinterpret. If you want to make something smart, it’s tempting to do smartness to your topic until you’ve condensed it into some admirably lucid interpretation, then hand that to the audience and wait for the applause. Sometimes this is what’s needed. But it isn’t how to make smart things. A smart thing is something for a smart person. However many interpretations you put in it, however fertile they are, you leave room for more.

You do this because you respect what you are interpreting and you do it because you respect your audience. It’s a lot like being considerate. And that’s how you make smart things."

"Good science is more like Proust than Mr. Popper’s Penguins; its stories startle us with their strangeness, but they intrigue us by their originality, and end by rewarding us with the truth, after an effort. It is the shock good stories offer to our expectations, not some sop they offer to our pieties, that makes tales tally, and makes comtes count."
—The New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik critiques Jonathan Gottschall’s The Storytelling Animal

California based Nsurfin, Inc. announces Legend of Master2 Plus 1.0.2, its mobile RPG gaming title for iOS devices. Legend of Master2 Plus is an arcade-style action RPG game that offers everything players are looking for. There are four different characters and each character has its own unique story ending. In addition, there are 16 advance classes, custom crafting skills, and optional quests to challenge users. The best part of the game begins after they finish its story mode.

North Carolina-based Eggroll Games today introduces Touch To Color Farm 1.0, its revolutionary new coloring experience for iOS devices. Designed specifically for toddlers, in Touch To Color Farm children discover hidden items and complete fun farm activities in a barnyard full of cute characters and silly scenery. Toddlers simply touch characters and scenery to fill them with color. Children never get overwhelmed by choices or stuck in a hard-to-navigate color selection menu.

From FastCompany: For decades, companies have made you feel inadequate in order to get you to buy things. In an excerpt from his new book Story Wars Jonah Sachs traces the history of the growing field of marketing products in ways that make us better people and the world a better place.

"We tell stories to continue ourselves"