App Swaps Children's Book Text With News To Save Bored Parents' Sanity

Magic Story Maker sneakily replaces the text in children's book illustrations so you can read the news to your unassuming toddler. (Mwahaha...) Like puppies, kids are wildly energetic and easy to fool. My siblings once recited a "hilarious joke" to my toddler cousin: an arduous, incomprehensible story, ending with the punchline: "Soap! It was the soap!" They then burst into laughter, on cue, and my amusingly gullible cousin followed suit, laughing uproariously. Such is the idea with the new app,...