Games are usually cheap (99 cents to download one) or even free, and most guide you very gently into playing, with helpful on-screen tips and intuitive touchscreen controls.

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That little TV screen displaying daily grooming tips and vocabulary words?

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Vivendi Entertainment and A Squared Entertainment, Warren Buffett has become his own animated star character, whose world-recognizable image and cautionary, sage voice of finance is now captured on the screen in a new animated series, Secret Millionaires Club Volume One, offering tips to kids on making investing an enjoyable activity.

FORBES: Warren Buffett On Teaching Kids Smart Investing, With Cartoons

Partnering with Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment and A Squared Entertainment, Warren Buffett has become his own animated star character, whose world-recognizable image and cautionary, sage voice of finance is now captured on the screen in a new animated series, Secret Millionaires Club Volume One, offering tips to kids on making investing an enjoyable activity.

FORBES: Warren Buffett On Teaching Kids Smart Investing, With Cartoons

For the first time on a single GPS device screen, Magellan SmartGPS consumers can simultaneously see maps, navigate, and see reviews, tips and offers from Yelp and Foursquare for nearby restaurants, stores and services, plus navigate to those locations without needing to use an additional device or application.

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These are intended for use in flat-panel displays (in which the tips of the nanotubes are used to spray electrons on to individual phosphor elements of the screen) and atomic-force microscopes.

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