Fisher-Price Recalls Children's Trikes: Details
U.S. regulators are announcing a recall of more than 10 million Fisher-Price tricycles, toys and high chairs after reports of 10 children being hurt. Here are the details of the affected toys, from the...
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View ArticleWhat to Get the Kids? High Tech Toys that Teach
These days, shopping for Christmas presents for children can be a little overwhelming.On top of the usual high-demand gadgets like tablets and smartphones, there are dozens of high-tech toys to pick...
View ArticleEverything is Awesome: How Lego Sails the Seas
In 1997, nearly five million nautical-themed Legos fell into the sea when a huge wave hit the container ship Tokio Express, washing 62 containers overboard—and they’ve been showing up on the beaches of...
View ArticleHow Gender Stereotypes Influence Developing Brains
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.It started like so many things do in 2015—with a Tweet. An Ohio mother of three was in the toy aisle at Target when she noticed that right next to...
View ArticleWhy Hoverboards Are Exploding
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.This year, the must-have gift for the holiday season appears to be the hoverboard. But there are a number of problems with this self-balancing...
View ArticleComic Book Artist Gary Panter on Toys
Kurt Andersen and Gary Panter talk about the inspired and sneaky ways artists use toys to create. Panter is a comic book artist and toy devotee. Best known for his witty set design for television's...
View ArticlePixel Vision
Fisher Price called the PXL-2000 “the first camcorder for kids." It also turned out to be the only one. Children weren’t interested, but some directors were.
View ArticleToy Piano
Margaret Leng Tan, a virtuoso of the grand piano, takes Schroeder‘s place at the plastic one.(Originally aired: July 4, 2002)
View ArticlePixelvision
Fisher Price called the PXL-2000 “the first camcorder for kids.” It also turned out to be the only one. Children weren’t interested, but some directors were. (Originally aired: July 4, 2002)
View ArticleLego Bible
Meet “Reverend” Brendan Powell Smith, a California artist who’s applied all of Lego’s variety toward telling one story — the one with gardens of forbidden fruit, and rains of fire and brimstone....
View ArticleToys, Panter, Pixelvision
Kurt Andersen and the legendary comic book artist Gary Panter look at how artists embrace the playful universe of toys. We hear from fans of the PIXEL-2000, the best and only toy camcorder. And...
View ArticleRobot Hut
The toy collector John Rigg began wiring circuits in kindergarten. He was still little when he gave his mom a cardboard robot he built with motors, electric lights, and a little candy-filled drawer....
View ArticleDesign for the Real World: Frisbee
Somewhere, right now, at a picnic or on a playing field, someone is pulling out a plate-sized plastic disk to toss around. Paola Antonelli, design curator at the Museum of Modern Art, tells us about...
View ArticleAction Figure
A lot of us grew up with GI Joe and Princess Leia action figures. But today's selection of tiny plastic dolls isn’t limited to movie and comic book characters. Super heroes worked hard to make our...
View ArticleLego Bible
Meet "Reverend" Brendan Powell Smith. He's not an ordained minister, but he's applied all his creative energies and a vast collection of Legos to telling one story — one that features rape, incest,...
View ArticleToys, Panter, Pixelvision
Kurt Andersen and the legendary comics artist Gary Panter embrace and subvert the disposable plastic junk of childhood. We hear from fans of the Pixelvision camera, the first — and only — toy...
View ArticleToy Piano
Margaret Leng Tan, a virtuoso of the grand piano, takes Schroeder's place at the plastic one. Produced by David Krasnow.
View ArticleSpecial Guest: Gary Panter
Kurt Andersen and Gary Panter talk about the inspired and sneaky ways artists use toys.Gary Panter is a legendary and highly influential comic book artist, and a devotee of toys. He is well known for...
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