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From: 2004 New Products Journal

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Appealing to Higher-Tech Kids

Retailers, teachers and parents beware: Young consumers have the most rabid appetites for new technologies. They learn the language of technology so young they can't imagine life without tech toys. And they want play that is challenging too!

Consumer Profile

Kids are drawn to tech items and gadgets in ways that adults aren't.
Adults consult with kids to make technology decisions.
Kids learn to speak "tech" younger than ever. Many love tech 'challenges'. It's all play to them.
Parents (grandparents and others) want to give kids extra learning tools, often not available through traditional schooling. Being able to compete better in tomorrow's world is one of the attracting factors.
Keep today's kids in mind when selecting products. What they want is relevant, nothing else!

WHAT IT MEANS

Most 'Me-too' toy products will not make much money.
Tech products will be sold using brand names, licensing brands,personalities, well known retailers and other specialty or new creative channels.

The Bottom Line

1. Kids' Ownership Of Technology Items Exceeds Adults'. If you're a retailer, this means growing tech business. To a teacher or parent, it means more tech learning. An investment in future generations is being made now. Smarter parents buy more tech products for children
2. Learning Tech Early Is Like Gaining Compound Interest
3. Younger Kids Apply Tech Concepts To Other Activities
4. Parents will buy products they trust will get kids away from overusing computer games and TV. Few manufacturers offer such products. Most manufacturers copy others and then wander why sales are poor. Category leaders will prevail (in most cases).
5. Tech Kids Want To Buy more and more Technology. Sadly, other kids (those not offered tech learning toys) are often left behind in the 'learning curve'. The greater the number of children left behind, the lesser the strength of our country and society. The bleak future of those left behind darkens everyone's horizons.

The above study are facts compilations from public information sources, top educators, the Dept. of Education, the National Science Foundation, National Science, Physics and Technology Associations and others.

For Immediate Release: (Seibun offers sponsorship opportunities: Organizations can sponsor Seibun in schools, after school programs and other activities and greatly benefit themselves. Email Info1@ SeibunUSA.com for information in USA and other countries).

Harris Educational announces partnership with Seibun Mind Development to produce educational modules that make use of Seibun Educational Mind Development kits and lessons along with the Coach software learning environment. This will extend and build upon each Seibun lessons with data logging and analysis. Coach software is a multimedia environment that presents lessons in a hands-on inquiry based design. Each lesson is correlated to Standards and makes use of the fact that Seibun materials save teachers time, money, and energy while increasing achievement. These activities will work with TI-CBL, CBL2, Vernier LabPro and CoachLab interfaces.

Says Ben Harris: "I'm really excited about working with Seibun materials. I have seen how positively teachers and students react to these well thought out kits' lessons/labs and pleased to assist in creating something that will bring another level to Seibun materials"

TI-CBL, CBL2 are trademarks of Texas Instruments
Vernier LabPro is a trademark of Vernier Software
CoachLab is a trademark of CMA

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SEIBUN INTRODUCES NEW MODELING CLAY TO MOLD IMAGINATION
San Diego, Calif (March 13, 2000) – SEIBUN Educational introduces a new modeling clay to the United States: Wood Clay. Besides being smoother and easier to work with than most other clay, SEIBUN EDUCATIONAL’S Wood Clay has several unique properties: it never dries out (a great money-saving feature), has no bad odor, doesn’t discolor and floats on water.

“By mixing Japanese Cypress pulp and natural oils to produce our Wood Clay, we’ve created a material that stay malleable for a much longer time than any clay-type product on the market today,” says F.R. d’Ours, director of SEIBUN’s San Diego office. According to Dr. Wendy Hirsch Weiner of Learning Your Way, Inc., an educational advocacy service, the neutral color of Wood Clay can increase the power of a child’s imagination because “playing with clays in a wide array of colors can actually limit your child’s creativity to those specific colors.” “The fact that Wood Clay floats adds a whole new dimension to what kids can do with it, too,” mentions d’Ours.

Wood Clay is a 100% natural product that is both non-toxic and anti-bacterial. Each package contains a generous 22 cubic inches of material and weighs 12 ounces (suggested retail: $5.99-9.99).

SEIBUN Education adds a whole new dimension to modeling clay with the introduction of it’s new Wood Clay. The material actually floats on water thanks to it’s non-toxic, anti-bacterial ingredients that include Japanese Cypress pulp and natural oils. Wood Clay also stays malleable for a much longer time then other clay-type products on the market today.

Each package contains a generous 22 cubic inches of material and weighs 12 ounces (suggested retail: $5.99-9.99).

CONTACT INFORMATION: Wood Clay can be ordered by calling SEIBUN’s U.S. office at (888) 684-7873 or going on-line at www.seibunUSA.com.

Leading Japanese Manufacturer Enters U.S. Market with Magnetic Paper for School, Office & Home Use

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Aug. 18, 1999) – One of Japan’s leading manufacturers of “edu-tainment” products is entering the United States market with an “attractive” and unique inkjet paper: “Print-On” Magnet Paper features high-density paper stock backed with a thin, high-tech, flexible magnetic coating that allows the paper to securely adhere to nearly any metal surface.

Magnetic paper has limitless applications at schools, homes and offices, according to the manufacturer’s U.S. distributor. “With Print-On Magnet Paper, today’s kids can take their computer artwork straight from the printer to the refrigerator door,” says F.R. d’Ours, director of SEIBUN Educational’s San Diego office. “Teachers can now create their own magnetic flash cards, families can send out magnetic greeting cards during the holidays, and office managers can post magnetic memos. Boring filing cabinet labels are a thing of the past – Print-On Magnet Paper adds color instantly!”

Anything that can be printed on an inkjet printer can be printed on Print-On Magnet Paper. The 8-1/4” x 11-3/4” paper is easy to cut and can be used in numerous ways: refrigerator stickers, promotional signage, business cards, photographs, logos, sporting event schedules, office announcements, trade show displays, etc. d’Ours stresses that the magnetic paper can only be used in inkjet printers, not in laser printers or copiers.

Print-On Magnet Paper is sold in sample packages containing three sheets of paper ($13.95 suggested retail) and a variety of bulk quantities. Print-On Magnet Paper can be ordered by contacting SEIBUN Educational’s U.S. office at (888) 684-7873 or going on-line at www.seibunUSA.com.

For additional information about any of SEIBUN Educational’s edu-tainment products, contact F.R. d'Ours at (888) 684-7873