A jar that counts coins as a child drops them in and displays the total on an LED screen. iPhone apps for toddlers. A computer designed for a 2-year-old. Objects that were once viewed as tools have ...

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It’s a scene as old as humanity itself: If mommy sweeps, baby wants a tiny broom. If daddy drives an automobile, son wants a tiny pedal car. In the same vein, the late 20th century found parents ...

NEW YORK — Looking for a cool tech gift for a kid in your life? There's no shortage of fun and fairly educational items these days. New toys for the holidays include little robot friends full of ...

From beating the best human players at chess, to flying planes, to running stock market transactions, computers are now used in virtually every facet of modern-day life. But children aren't being ...

Toys don’t have to be high-tech to teach kids how to code. Take, for example, the toys from startup Learning Beautiful, featured at the newly redesigned Thomas Hughes Children’s Library at the Harold ...

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 ...