Hey Doll, Look What's Talking
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Mattel's Little Mommy doll baby is one tech-heavy toy that recognizes its handler and plays peekaboo. Alexander Gelfand blogs from the International Toy Fair in New York.
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A member of the audience gives his take on the show and host.
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New gadgets include a keyboard with call buttons and a speakerphone.
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Analysis: The company admits that most of its toy recalls were due to its own design flaws, not Chinese manufacturers. Lesson: Mattel needs China as much as China needs Mattel
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Thumbs. For centuries, they have conveyed the simplest of messages. Up/down, good/bad, salvation/lion chow. But look at the folks in the elevators, the checkout lines, even crawling along in traffic jams.
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Keynote Kathy Sierra gives designers the antidote for apps that can't read faces, movement, tone or anything: Give users a way to express themselves. Plus: TV panel goes rogue. In Listening Post.
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Before I begin this week's missive, let me just say this: I'm glad to see that the FBI is turning to off-the-shelf software to monitor our conversations rather than spending more money on a proprietary solution. As a taxpayer, I appreciate that.
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Before:  Hey, we need to talk!  Don't you remember me?  From school?  Well I sure remember you!  Look, let me buy you a coffee.  Surely you have a few minutes to chat.  A lot has happened  since those days.
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With fashion dolls decked out in   knee-high boots, mini-skirts and midriff baring shirts a common   sight these days, a new survey finds a majority of mothers   believe many toy dolls available for young girls today are too   provocative.
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Robots that recognize your voice or remember what you look like. Robots that play musical instruments. Robots that shake your hand and know up to 10,000 words -- in Japanese.
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Also: The sound of hacked dolls' heads. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Our three-part series on cheap, plastic robots concludes with the Robotikits Jungle Robot, a stump of voice-activated plastic and metal that resembles an encephalitic R2-D2. Commentary by Lore SjÃ¶berg.
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A new book helps adults talk to kids about the birds, the bees and Britneyâs underwear in an age when sexual innuendo and provocative images seem to be everywhere.Â
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Girls: you may have one tucked secretly in your handbag. Boys: you may have stumbled on a stack of them in your girlfriend's closet. Go ahead. Don't be shy.
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By MADELEINE BAILEY  FROM sex and health problems to movies and pot plants - and everything in between - someone somewhere on the internet is telling anyone who'll listen what they think about it.
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Hand-held devices help settle disputes. (Look it up!)
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-- Communicate with the seller  -- Read