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The cards, real world, real cardboard cards are part of a card game on the iPad. Actually, there are two Nukotoys cards game apps. The first is Animal Planet Wildlands and is geared towards children as young as 3 or 4. You buy cards in packs just like baseball cards and then as you touch them to this section of the screen whatever's on them appears in the game. For the most part the cards are wild animals...monkeys, giraffes, gorillas. Once in the game you can play with them, roam around, hunt, and there are some mini-games, most notably an animal Mario Kart type race. The cards that aren't animals are natural events or formations like droughts, tornadoes, volcanos and they too pop up to mix things up your little wild kingdom. The other title, more for young teen gamers, is Monsterology. In this one your cards are creatures you'd expect to find in greek mythology. They too, along with weapons cards, like catapults, pop up in the game on this one is a turn based strategy game. The Animal Planet Wildlands Games and Monsterology apps themselves, for the iPad, are free. The cards though, which come in packs of three for $1.99 or seven for $3.99.

And another new iPad game accessory for kids this is the Dora Let's Play Backpack. Created by Duo, the team that's developed similar hardware for playing trivia type games on your iPad...you simply place the backpack here and then as you play the games you place your token on whichever slot you feel represents the right answer. The backpack then collects the tokens of the correctly answered questions to show you how well you're doing or who's winning in a competition. Developers say the games are designed to help teach matching, listening, logic and being Dora, of course the Spanish language as well. The actual Dora Let's Play Backpack costs about 40-dollars, the app with the same name that works with it is free.