Bible Stack-O! is a challenging card game with multiple levels of play for younger and older players.
If you play your cards right, you'll learn the books of the Bible and a content summary of each of the books too. (For ages 8-Adult
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Saturday, December 2, 2006
Bandai and Evolution Robotics Partner on Breakthrough Telepresence Robot
The NetTansor is an excellent example of how fast the consumer robotics market is advancing,” said Paolo Pirjanian, CEO of Evolution Robotics. “We see a growing demand for innovative solutions like ViPR that enable companies like Bandai, WowWee and Sharper Image to deliver breakthrough new products at consumer-friendly prices.”
User-friendly software powered by the ViPR vision system lets hobbyists and families create their own programs for NetTansor for a broad range of purposes, from practical to pure fun. Examples include programming NetTansor to automatically take and send a picture each time the robot drives by a pet’s bowl to show how much food is left, creating a flash card game to help a student practice his/her vocabulary skills, or having NetTansor dance and play a song each time a child holds up one of the picture command cards included with the kit.
Bandai will begin taking orders for the NetTansor robot kit for sale in Japan on December 16, 2006. The complete kit will sell for roughly $415. (US$)
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User-friendly software powered by the ViPR vision system lets hobbyists and families create their own programs for NetTansor for a broad range of purposes, from practical to pure fun. Examples include programming NetTansor to automatically take and send a picture each time the robot drives by a pet’s bowl to show how much food is left, creating a flash card game to help a student practice his/her vocabulary skills, or having NetTansor dance and play a song each time a child holds up one of the picture command cards included with the kit.
Bandai will begin taking orders for the NetTansor robot kit for sale in Japan on December 16, 2006. The complete kit will sell for roughly $415. (US$)
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Professor says toys are the futur
Hong Rongshao, a professor at Taipei Education University and founder of the country's first Toy Research Institute, is confident about the future of the toy industry. Many university students are worried about not being able to find work when they graduate, but Hong proclaims, "Kids, adults, old people, sick people, and even pets love toys. This is one career path that has a great future, and you can be your own boss and make good money, too."
I believe that the domestic market's current difficulties are due to an inability to design good toys, and not because there is no money to be made in toys
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I believe that the domestic market's current difficulties are due to an inability to design good toys, and not because there is no money to be made in toys
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National toy chains are not playing games in fight for survival
National toy chains are not playing games in fight for survival
Consumers are expected to spend on average $153 on toys this season, about 12 percent more than last year, according to market research firm NPD Group of Port Washington, N.Y.
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Consumers are expected to spend on average $153 on toys this season, about 12 percent more than last year, according to market research firm NPD Group of Port Washington, N.Y.
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The Hard Truth About The Hard Truth About Hated 'Clamshell' Packaging
In an effort to keep toys intact and music players from being pilfered, the consumer products industry has moved en masse into a style of wrapping that's more prison than package. The hard plastic clamshell container, with its fused seams, is so impenetrable it has even spawned its own safecracking tools: razor-sharp gadgets designed to slash through all that stuff.
"You want the virgin product -- the product that's untouched by human hands," Hine said. "Yet when you get it home, the very thing that kept the product pristine is what's keeping you from actually experiencing it. We want it both ways."
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"You want the virgin product -- the product that's untouched by human hands," Hine said. "Yet when you get it home, the very thing that kept the product pristine is what's keeping you from actually experiencing it. We want it both ways."
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Toy industry could face 2006 sales decline
The U.S. toy industry rang up $12.7 billion in sales this year through October -- down 2.4 percent from a year ago, according to market research firm NPD Group.
That puts November and December on the hot seat to pull in $9.1 billion in sales if the industry hopes to at least match last year's total of $21.8 billion.
That could be a stretch since NPD said November and December usually account for 33 to 37 percent of total year sales -- not the 42 percent needed to match last year's numbers.
"It definitely looks like the industry might be down again this year," said NPD
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That puts November and December on the hot seat to pull in $9.1 billion in sales if the industry hopes to at least match last year's total of $21.8 billion.
That could be a stretch since NPD said November and December usually account for 33 to 37 percent of total year sales -- not the 42 percent needed to match last year's numbers.
"It definitely looks like the industry might be down again this year," said NPD
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