Which toy computers are best? In the past few decades, laptops have become an indispensable tool for work and a device for play. Unfortunately, because they are so technical, so fragile and so ...

Our more youthful readers are fairly likely to have owned some incarnation of a VTech educational computer. From the mid-1980s and right up to the present day, VTech has been producing vaguely laptop ...

In the mid-1960s, most children had never seen an electronic computer. However, they had heard stories of the power of these giant instruments and knew that they were associated with space flight.

K’NEX, the colorful plastic construction toy known for roller coasters and towers, has taken on a new identity. It has become the frame of a fully functioning 8-bit mechanical computer. Built by an ...

Does anyone remember these? They were white plastic and metal springs. My Dad had one back in the '70's. I'd love to track one down now but I can't even spell it right... Letraset is a company that ...

A lot of talk is devoted to how other industries are , but here's one that usually isn't mentioned in the same vein: toys. Fisher-Price, for example, has seen little or no sales growth for the last ...

If you’ve ever eyed up a kids laptop and wondered whether it could take an upgrade with a single board computer, you’re not alone. [Labz] have taken a couple of Brazilian Max Steel toy computers from ...