It's Techno Time At Toy Fair 2000
News Just how high-tech the $22.38bn (£13.8bn) toy industry has become will be on display from Saturday until Thursday at the American International Toy Fair in New York. There are so many electronic products at this year's show, which features more...
[February 14, 2000, 9:24]
It's Techno Time At Toy Fair 2000
Talkback If I have a desing/idea that I would like to be produced, how do I go about it. I have no knowledge or background in toys just an idea.
[June 26, 2006, 10:58]
It's Intel Inside - Your Toys
News The first two products to be unveiled, at next week's New York Toy Fair, are a computerised version of a microscope and a digital camera. The company plans to introduce another line of interactive plush figures at the Toy Fair based on the...
[February 3, 1999, 15:49]
Toy Robots Do Your Bidding
News A casual bystander could easily mistake this year's International Toy Fair in New York for an episode of "The Jetsons". The doll interacts with a light sabre, included with the toy, teaching a child how to manoeuvre the toy.
[February 15, 2000, 9:18]
Software Game Sales Hit Holiday Skid
News While toy makers get ready to show off their latest and greatest products at this year's Toy Fair opening Sunday in New York, computer game makers may be licking their wounds as they try to recover from a somewhat disappointing Christmas.
[February 14, 2000, 9:59]
One Wireless Viewpoint: 'WAP Is Crap'
News It is a toy for companies to learn about. Too-high prices, a lack of applications and carrier-imposed content restrictions will prevent WAP -- touted as the mobile market's next big thing -- from being more than a "toy" in Australia.
[June 30, 2000, 10:12]
Mattel's Tech Wares Get Touchy-feely
News Mattel may have been struggling recently, but the venerable toy company is putting on a big show in New York City at the Toy Fair. The $40 toy, available in June, holds a book and communicates through infrared technology with a companion child's...
[February 16, 2000, 13:05]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback To think windows is as powerful as *nix convinces me you have never run, or learned a *nix OS, you couldn't say that if you had; its a fisher price toy compared to a formula 1 car. Pretty close to be fair, the other benchmark is obviously just a...
[January 30, 2004, 4:52]
Best Approach To Linux Support
News These days, very few of the administrators I know openly condemn Linux as a toy operating system with absolutely no place in the enterprise -- in fact, many of them are already using Linux in their data centers or are experimenting with using...
[December 17, 2002, 9:34]
Do Tablets Face A Convertible Future?
News Tablets come in two basic forms: notebooks with screens that flip around 180 degrees and lay flat over the keyboard to make a tablet, and so-called slate tablets, which look more like an Etch A Sketch toy.
[October 20, 2005, 19:45]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Does the toy giant see visions of huge online profits? The Economist analyses the growing dispute between the cable companies who wish to push 'broadband' Internet services, and ISPs who believe they are not being given a fair chance to compete.
[November 10, 1998, 12:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog You may have seen the toy in question if you watch too much telly -- it stars in an advert for Maltesers, and looks like a spinning top with lights around the edges. It turns out that the machine (a Blow Action UFO Mk II) hasn't got enough puff to...
[April 9, 1999, 19:47]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News You may have seen the toy in question if you watch too much telly -- it stars in an advert for Maltesers, and looks like a spinning top with lights around the edges. It turns out that the machine (a Blow Action UFO Mk II) hasn't got enough puff to...
[April 9, 1999, 18:47]
Taking The Rap For DRM
Leader Each new toy is locked down tight, each make yo' pocket light, each burn away yo' rights. Fair use is not a crime. Rapper and new media entrepreneur Chuck D has made his feelings about current DRM usage painfully clear.
[September 19, 2006, 16:05]
Digital Music A Hit With Kids
News Several companies were showing off devices that allowed kids to download music clips off the Internet and then carry them around or digitally morph them. Tiger Electronics, a division of Hasbro, showed off a few new products that will be co-branded...
[February 15, 2000, 10:01]
