How the iPod is Changing Kids' Lives Will Apple's iPod come to rule the world — even for kids? With an increasing number of books, music and games for children created as iPhone apps, and parents who aren't afraid to hand over their "toy"...
LeapFrog Stumbles and V.Smile Frowns There are mounting signs that the Electronic Learning Products toy category is undergoing a structural change — and not for the better...
6/1/2009
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New Toys for Santa's Sleigh This year, kids can ditch the traditional coloring book for some 3-D fun with biodegradable and cardboard structures that can be decorated to their hearts’ content...
5/1/2009
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How the iPod is Changing Kids' Lives Will Apple's iPod come to rule the world — even for kids? With an increasing number of books, music and games for children created as iPhone apps, and parents who aren't afraid to hand over their "toy"...
11/1/2009
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LeapFrog Stumbles and V.Smile Frowns There are mounting signs that the Electronic Learning Products toy category is undergoing a structural change — and not for the better...
6/1/2009
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Holiday Preview - Electronics Travel-friendly cameras, glowing alarm clocks, and a creative way for baby to snack are heating up the electronics department for Christmas 2009. See some of them below...
5/1/2009
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New Toys for Santa's Sleigh This year, kids can ditch the traditional coloring book for some 3-D fun with biodegradable and cardboard structures that can be decorated to their hearts’ content...
Retailers Predict Top Mass-Market Holiday Toys I recently asked my retailer panel friends — seven mass-market and three specialty stores — to tell me which toys are likely to do the best this Christmas. Here are their rankings...
10/1/2008
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Lurking Danger for Video Games Video games and the companies associated with them — console makers, game publishers and retailers — are on a roll...
5/1/2008
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Toys to Watch in 2008 The American International Toy Fair, an annual event that takes over New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Center each February, is the primary launching ground for the toys, games, dolls and various innovations that will shape the nature of the toy industry...
4/1/2008
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Rubik’s and Trains Keep Electronics on Track Wings don’t guarantee that a toy will fly off the shelves, but it’s a good place to start. Of the 17 retailers TDmonthly Magazine surveyed, 10 mentioned strong sales for RC aircraft...
12/1/2007
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Toys That Feel Your Pain Imagine a toy that you control simply by concentrating ... Or one that can read your feelings and respond: a doll that knows you’re happy and invites you to play a game, or a robot that hears your angry voice and apologizes...
7/1/2007
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Kids Get Buzzed for Christmas What kid doesn't want to be grown up ... yesterday? These new electronics let them call friends, form a rock band, groove to tunes ... and still play like little kids...
6/1/2007
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Baby Gets a Boom Box Dan Lemay believes he has something that nobody else has in the toy, music or even educational industry...
Kidults Grow Younger Mimoco founder and CEO Evan Blaustein didn’t anticipate that mimobots would appeal to 5-year-olds...
12/1/2006
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Electronics of Choice Create and Educate Science kits, models and educational items take precedence in the electronics category, specialty toy retailers told TDmonthly Magazine...
12/1/2006
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What a Tween Girl Wants.... According to CBS News, tween girls form the most powerful consumer group since the Baby Boom...
11/1/2006
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LeapFrog Leaps Into Cinema The nice thing about being in Hollywood is that everyone — and I mean everyone — knows someone in the entertainment world, and the buzz never stops...
10/1/2006
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Look, Ma! Electrons! What makes a good electronic toy more than just a couple of wires and a silicon chip? TDmonthly Magazine talked with manufacturers to find out what would be “electrifying” this holiday season and why...
Grown-up Kid Stuff Kids want their very own electronic gizmos that really work...
2/1/2006
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It’s Chat Time for Children According to research commissioned by Firefly Mobile, 90 percent of kids ages 8 to 12 do not yet have their own cell phones. Can you spell “opportunity?”...
1/1/2006
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Pretend Play Caters to Kidult Crowd Now that Mom uses her Blackberry, Dad has a portable DVD player and everyone’s walking around while talking on the phone, kids want their very own electronic gizmos that really work...
12/1/2005
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LeapFrog Enterprises: Self-Investment Pays Off In 1994, Mike Wood left his successful law practice to invent the prototype for what has become a multimillion dollar product: the LeapPad Learning System...
11/1/2005
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