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Sphero 2.0 Is a More Heroic Robotic Ball
The robotic smart toy doubles its speed for even more derring-do.
Pleygo Is Basically Netflix for Legos
If building Legos is your jam but you don’t have pockets deep enough to buy set after set after set, Pleygo might be right up your alley.
Talking Tom Cat App Gets Turned into an Interactive Stuffed Animal
Do you know any children? They go nuts for the Talking Tom Cat app. If you can’t relate to a kid, just fire up the app, hand over your phone and call it a day.
The premise of the app is simple: kids (or adults) say something …
Toys ‘R’ Us Offers Children a Cheap Tablet with Weak Specs
A tablet designed for young children, like the one Toys “R” Us just announced, seems like a good idea in theory. Instead of giving up your precious iPad, Nexus 7 or Kindle Fire, why not give kids a tablet of their own, pre-loaded …
10 Classic Toys That Deserve a Second Life
Favorites from our youth and how we think they could be improved — with technology!
U Nye Loo Lay Doo? Brush Up on Your Furbish: New Furby Coming
Strap in, friends. There’s a new version of the Furby rolling out later this year.
If you don’t remember the great Furby craze of 1998, you missed out on some wonderfully weird toy-centric insanity. Still reeling from the …
Transforming Robot Is More Than Meets the Eye, Turns into a Car
Remember when playing with Transformers took something called “imagination?” No more! Soon Transformers — err, I mean Brave Robots — will do all the work themselves.
According to the above YouTube video, this is Kenji …
Augmented Reality Toys for iPhone and iPad: A Work in Progress
Can traditional toy makers capitalize on the rise of smartphones and tablets? Wowwee Toys thinks it can. Next week, the company behind Paper Jamz and Lite Sprites is releasing its first toys in the AppGear line, which combine …
Wherein Your iPhone Becomes This Stuffed Animal’s Interactive Face
ThinkGeek’s product page for the $20 Happitaps iPhone Interactive Bear lists it in the “3-7 Years” category, but the product specifications clearly state that this item is suitable for anyone who’s 18 months or older. Technology …
The Future of Toys Is…Apple’s iPad?
Could tablets like the iPad ever replace toys like LEGOs, Erector Sets and crayons? Probably not, but startup Launchpad Toys thinks the iPad (and presumably tablets in general) has the potential to.
Okay, so the iPad’s already fairly toy-like. If you have one and kids, or you’re just a big kid (like me), you’ve probably goofed around …
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With Electronic Toys, Simplicity Is Everything
Only a weirdo would use a thirty-year-old word processor to get real work done. (I know what I’m talking about: I used word processors back then, and don’t want to go back.) There’s nothing particularly strange, however, about playing thirty-year-old electronic games.
Such as Ms. Pac-Man, for instance, a game that’s still beloved and …