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What distinguishes the latest crop of robots from their strictly mechanical forebears is their ability to react to their environment (rather than dumbly obey the whims of their five-year-old masters). For example, Hasbro's B.I.O. Bugs send out radio and infrared signals to sense who or what is in the room. If it's a predator, the bug might decide to fight, gaining strength with each match it wins. Touch its antenna, and it will scurry away to flock with other bugs. "You can train them, but you can't tame them," says creator Richard Yanofsky, who claims...
VIRTUAL BABY SITTERS A new report suggests that as family playtime continues to shrink, parents who once used their televisions as baby sitters are now doing the same with their home computers. More than half the British parents polled in the study (commissioned by toymaker Hasbro) spend four hours or less each week playing with their children. Only a third of the adults restrict the time their kids spend on computers, and a third say they have no concern for their children's safety while they are online...
...NAME, TEAM] Meg Whitman, eBay [SOLD*] $46 million [CURRENT**] $921 million [INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS] With Net auctions hot, ex-Hasbro exec bids up her portfolio...
PSSSST!!! Kids love to share secrets, and now they can do it in high-tech style with a new line of personal communicators. Hasbro's Talkin'acha ($30 in August) is a handheld-size mini-recorder that lets kids create voice messages as long as 8 sec. and pass them to similarly equipped friends three ways: through removable "buzz cards," by holding up two communicators together or simply by touching each other on the arm. Shown here is Girl Tech's Laser Chat ($15 this spring), which can record a message and send it wirelessly as far away...