Chicago-based toy designer also had a hand in creating Lite-Brite and Mouse Trap. It wasn’t all fun and games.

The hottest toy this holiday season may be a robot dog that whimpers, blinks its eyes, wags its tail and responds to a rub on the head. The only thing Dog-E won’t do is soil that expensive rug – ...

Let’s say you love the world of Pixar’s Toy Story but also are cool with letting asentient robot live in your home that seems like it could, hypothetically, one day decide to kill you. If so, well, we ...

We are at a new frontier of toy danger,” a U.S. senator warned at Connecticut Children’s in Hartford. He stood at a podium beside a collection of toys including a pair of robotic companions, one a ...

Transformers: Cyberworld Chomp & Battle Grimlock have landed in South Africa.

Toys under the tree on Christmas morning weren't always made at the North Pole. For a half-century, until 1980, many were made in Erie and Girard by Marx Toys. The company founded by "Toy King" Louis ...

The tasks taken on by the Armatron aren’t so different from the ones AI is tackling today. As a child of an electronic engineer, I spent a lot of time in our local Radio Shack as a kid. While my dad ...