The Problem With Some 'Smart' Toys: (Hint) Use Your Imagination
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No studies exist to show that toys or videos designed to give children an intellectual edge over playmates do so.
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Have children lost their fondness for Lego's colourful plastic building bricks in this age of high-tech, interactive computer games and electronic gadgetry? It would appear so.
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Materials that could allow levitating trains and ultra powerful computers to become commonplace are coming of age
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Children have always enjoyed make-believe. Now, some new Web sites are letting them live out their fantasies in virtual worlds using self-designed avatars.
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Are dolls, blocks and stuffed animals fading away in favor of electronic gadgets, and is childhood fading with them?
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Blog: Device from Immersive Media may be  funny looking, but boy does it get all the angles.
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Two vastly different robots unveiled at DigitalLife offer practicality and Jetsons frivolity for the home.
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Researchers in England and Switzerland use video cameras and virtual-reality goggles to make subjects observe "themself" from elsewhere in the room. They learn: "The brain can trick itself."
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With their new crop of products that plug into the Internet, toy makers are placing bets on the longstanding enthusiasm among children for collecting things.
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Past attempts at a high-tech quill have ended up as expensive paperweights, but a new crop of start-ups has higher hopes.Photos: Pens get smarter
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SmartUSA must get its act together, or the cute little vehicles will never make it in America. In Autopia.
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THERE is never a right time to buy technology. Something cheaper, faster and better specified will be on the market before you have even got your product out of its box.
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3001: A Pants Odyssey NSFW Everyone wants more pleasure with less effort, so humans have used mechanical augmentation for ages: prehistoric dildos and porn, Kama Sutra treatises, lubes, piercings, and lately vibrators and Viagra. But since sex is really all about electrical nerve impulses, shouldn't electronics and signal processing be able to enhance pleasure even further? Can't we geeks contribute technology to our favorite activity?â¦
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The race to unveil amazing new gadgets sometimes turns ludicrous, but it could be worse. Much worse. Commentary by Lore Sj&#246;berg.
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Sparkling high-definition TV sets and sizzling Core 2 PCs may be high on wish lists this year. But sometimes, the most welcomed gift is one that makes a cherished tech toy work or look better. And these don't have to break the bank.
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Sometimes really smart people say really dumb things. Here's a case in point.
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They're not obvious, and they're not always cheap.