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Word: cartoons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tech Force robots, executives confirm that the toys are controlled by audio signals. Michael Hatcher, Axlon's senior product manager, imitates the sound by muttering a low-pitched beeping noise. The Tech Force robots will carry microprocessors that decode the signals from the sound track of the Tech Force cartoon program. Those beeps -- signifying such commands as forward, reverse, right and left -- will send the robots wheeling across the living-room floor. At the same time, children can control other robots by sending out audio commands from a small keyboard. That way youngsters can stage battles between the robots they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Playland, Secrets 'R Us | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...rivals. Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari and now head of a toy company called Axlon, has developed Tech Force and the Moto-Monsters, a group of mobile robots that are scheduled to go on sale this month. The Tech Force robots will move in response to a cartoon show that will debut in the fall, as well as to commands from a keyboard. The starting price is high: about $250 for a set of two hero robots, two villainous ones and two keyboards. Another competitor will be World Events Productions of St. Louis, which is developing interactive toys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zap,Zap! You're Dead, Lord Dread! | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...ignorance," blares the accompanying voice. (Condoms, however, are not mentioned.) Detailed information is in leaflets being sent to the nation's 23 million homes. Denmark and Norway are matter-of-factly running explicit pro-prophylactic TV spots alongside ads for traffic safety and medical care. One cartoon commercial depicts a small i in the word AIDS that reaches full capital size when covered with a condom. West Germany is also in the midst of an all-out campaign to promote condoms. By this week 66 million newspapers and magazines will have carried a drawing of a man and woman with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Campaigns Round the World | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

DESCRIPTION:Color illustration: Four panels detailing exchanges of money and arms amongst cartoon figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Murky World of Weapons Dealers | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

DESCRIPTION:Color illustration: Cartoon of plane, money and question mark over columns of questions and statistics indicating responses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mixed Blessing | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

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