If Leonardo Had Made Toys
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The use of advance technologies are giving a new generation of toys extraordinary capabilities to fly, float, walk and roll â almost always inexpensively â in ways unimaginable just a few years ago.
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Wired News is seeking reader-submitted photos for inclusion in a Transformers gallery that we'll publish in early July when the Transformers movie comes out. Submit your photos for your chance at robot toy fame!
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Un mondo simile alla Terra ma con materiali esotici
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Roger Federer is being immortalized as a terracotta warrior. The world number one's life-sized sculpture is among a collection of eight being made to mark the season-ending Masters Cup in Shanghai in November.
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Imagine looking at Leonardo da Vinci's heart sketch while listening to Hank Williams' "Your Cheatin Heart," or viewing a sculpture of an HIV-positive woman in a cast made from wax laced with the retroviral drugs she took to stay alive.
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Â· Thomas the Tank Engine items taken off UK shelvesÂ· 70,000 Chinese-made playthings may be affected
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Innovation comes from below. To find the weirdest new forms of play, look to independent designers. Commentary by Clive Thompson.
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Eeek! Imagine a rodent that weighed a ton and was as big as a bull.
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Analyzing 500-year-old bricks, engineers in California are searching for a lost Leonardo da Vinci fresco that some researchers believe is behind a wall in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio.
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The educational toy specialist has some new key hires to turn it around.
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The masters of the plastic universe are baffled. From their imaginations, their computers, from their calloused fingers, magnificent kingdoms have sprung. They can re-create the Seven Wonders of the World in a literal snap. But now they huddle in their model shop of Legoland California and contemplate the seemingly impossible:...
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I had a great Skype talk with Paolo yesterday. He was driving his car, in Italy near his home in Trieste. The connection was great, it was like living in the future.  One of the things we talked about was the iPhone. At first I talked about it as if Paolo had had one from the outset. He feels that close, and he's the kind of person who would get the latest Mac toy on Day 1, just like me. Later, when he said he just got his iPod Touch, I realized of course, this is one of those things we got here in the U.S. that they haven't gotten yet in Europe. Don't worry, they have some something we don't, a strong currency. :-( So here's his first writeup of the iPod Touch.
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The only living character from the best-seller thinks he's found the Lost Leonardo
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Modern renaissance man Maurizio Seracini wants to find Leonardo's Battle of Anghiari. His organization Editech uses high-tech tools to track down historic Italian works of art that the years have hidden from the public eye.
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The famed toymaker cranks out about 15 billion bricks and other components a year. It just won't be doing much of that at its home base any more.
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A physicist by trade, Robert J. Lang also has a quite unique claim to fame as one of the worldâs foremost origami artists. In fact, he has a Pteranodon with a 14-foot wing span at permanent display at the Redpath Museum of Natural History and a long list of commissions and commercial projects waiting in the wings. And he uses his MacBook Pro, two software programs he authored, and Wolframâs Mathematica to help him conceptualize and map out each new creation.
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Business & money: Toymaker says they were made with paint that includes unacceptably high level of lead.