{"id":19262,"date":"2025-10-30T01:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/19262\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T01:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:46:06","slug":"which-tech-gadgets-can-actually-help-pittsburgh-area-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/19262\/","title":{"rendered":"Which tech gadgets can actually help Pittsburgh-area families?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parents often see advertisements or hear about new technology and may find themselves wondering: Is this something that can actually help my family?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This week, journalist Meg St-Esprit (who serves as Kidsburgh\u2019s event editor) paid a visit to KDKA-TV\u2019s \u201cTalk Pittsburgh\u201d to share details on tech that\u2019s actually worth the hype.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meg spoke with co-hosts Mikey Hood and Kelly Dzanaj about things like an e-reader to build literacy skills in early learners, the Pinwheel Watch (which allows kids to reach a parent, but doesn\u2019t have the distractions of all the other smartwatches) and much more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Check out Meg\u2019s report right here:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parents often see advertisements or hear about new technology and may find themselves wondering: Is this something that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13507,73,75,74,10814],"class_list":["post-19262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-kdka-tv","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-talk-pittsburgh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}