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Amid the jumble of stalls, dense with the flow of human traffic and clattering with the din of vendors hawking wares, shoppers poke animals for tenderness and watch closely as purchases are weighed in hand-held balance scales, and mothers quiet crying children with cuts of sugarcane or towering lollipops of golden caramelized sugar pulled into flamboyant dragons...
...once they see it work," says Cudmore, "they become believers for life." Both "Skyro" and "Bug-Eye," a hand-held portable microscope that enables children to view living insects, have been marketed by Milton Bradley...
...industry experts believe that Mattel's Captain Power toys are based on optical technology. The Captain Power show is apparently programmed with light patterns that can be received and decoded by the hand-held PowerJet and related toys. In a typical battle, villains on the TV show hurl fireballs and other menacing projectiles toward the screen, which signals youngsters and their weapons that it is time to fire back. When the child pulls the trigger promptly, the hand-held toy detects the successful hit and racks up points on a scoreboard that is displayed on the toy. If a player...
...superheroes in fierce battles for control of the galaxy? Alarming as that possibility may sound, parents had better get ready for just such a commotion. The toy industry is racing to deliver a new generation of playthings that can communicate electronically with specially created TV programs, enabling youngsters with hand-held weapons to zap onscreen villains and even coordinate living-room battles with the action on the tube. "It's exciting, it's magic. It looks and smells like the next trend in the toy industry," says Thomas Kalinske, president of toymaker Mattel. The interactive playthings are expected...
Warning to bleary-eyed traveling executives: that gadget you thought was your electric shaver could be making a copy of your chin. Meet the incredible shrinking copy machine. The new, hand-held devices, priced from $250 to $350, are arriving from Japan and slipping into briefcases and little market niches , in the U.S. The battery-powered machines, when moved slowly down a newspaper column or across a passage in a book, can instantly produce a copy on a strip of paper about 1 3/4-in. to 3 1/4-in. wide. They use miniaturized thermal technology to transfer images onto the special heat...