Trax

The world's smallest real-time GPS tracker brings relief to parents and pet owners

With the recent release of its teeny yet powerful Trax realtime GPS solution, start-up Wonder Technology Solutions joins a growing list of Swedish wearables-focused companies with roots in the crowdfunding system. The successfully Kickstarted Trax is the sort of product that parents of high-spirited kids or owners of directionally-challenged pets have long been pleading for. The concept is simple: slip the tracker (the size of …

Lowline Young Designers Program

Local school kids reveal their vision for an underground park on the Lower East Side

This weekend, at NYC’s Mark Miller Gallery, an enthusiastic and clever bunch of middle-schoolers shared their visions—and plans—for the future of the city. The exhibit, which will run through March 9 and is sponsored by the Lowline’s Young Designers Program, revealed the vision of local school children for an underground park in the Lower East Side, and how such a marriage of technology, geography and …

Very French Gangsters

Stylish, comfortable eyewear for kids only

For elementary school kids, glasses can be considered a physical as well as mental constraint to their carefree lives. A pair of Very French Gangsters, however, is a confidence-boosting accessory that will set wearers apart from the crowd—in the best way possible. Paris-based Anne Masanet and Karoline Bothorel-Bolzinger teamed up to create the hip eyewear line for the neglected demographic (three to 14-year-olds) that has …