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Word: vsmile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2004-2004
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...technologies. Mattel's Fisher-Price introduced a game system called InteracTV this year, featuring DVDs with characters like Dora the Explorer; children as young as 3 interact with the videos via a push-button controller. VTech has a new video-game platform aimed at kids 3 to 7, called VSmile--for learning, of course. "Moms aren't happy when their kids want to play video games," says Julia Fitzgerald, a VTech marketing executive. "We wanted to take this play pattern and make it work for moms." Hasbro came out with a portable color video player this year, called VideoNow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zapped! How the toy industry is being outplayed by video games this holiday season | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

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