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Are we making a disservice to our children when they call us when they have a normal real world problem instead of trying to solve them by themselves? Everyday mishaps like missing the bus, getting to the school in time, informing what to eat from the fridge or getting lost from parents in a shop. I claim we do. Instead of getting our children to use their own brains what to do, we solve the problem for them. Kids should learn to handle such situation without parental control or guidance. We prevent a great learning and growing experiences. This phenomena is commonly known as a helicopter parenthood (also known as curling parenthood) Today I realised that there is more and more technology and applications available for helicopter parents. Helicopter parenting is made easy. I read an article on Norwegian inventor Sten Kirkbak who presented a new device in CES 2013. He had loist sight for his 3.5 year old son in a shopping centre in Oslo for 20 minutes. Instead of teaching [in advan...

When I in year 2007 visited both Samsung's and LG's research centres in South Korea, it was easy to see who would be the winners of the era of media convergence . Already then we could see concepts where mobile phone, TV, personal computer and all other home electronics were borrowing features from each others. In addition they would perform tasks together. Our group entering to LG Tower in April 2007. Today we are living in that period where portable devices resemble more and more full blood home entertainment systems, TV's opens up to the internet and offers telecommunication services, washing machines are measuring dirtyness of the clothes and suggest you the right washing program, a fridge will check your shopping list against the items existing in the fridge and removing the ones from the list which you already have in fridge - and so on. And new services are just around the corner. Winners of this competition will be the big Korean manufactures who did not amput...