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Gadget to Go: iPhone applications

(Twice a month, we will review some of the new gadgets you can take on your next trip.)

-- WHAT: Three iPhone applications to please and distract the kids on family trips. (http://apple.com/iTunes)

-- HOW IT WORKS: For young travelers, iToyBox holds a colorful pinwheel, sketch pad and more -- nine diversions in all -- that encourage fingers to play with the phone's display. BubbleWrap provides virtual sheets of the pop-a-licious packaging material to feed that impulse to pop. And before we get to the name of the last one, let's keep in mind that we're heading into the summer vacation season, and some of us reallllllly want to keep the kids amused, at any ...

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