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Strategic Space Runs the Race
Mark Salzwedel, president and CEO of Strategic Space, Inc., reflects on the history of his game design and his first year publishing...

Getting Kids to Talk, One Card at a Time
Glad you’re not a kid in this hooked-in, constant-access, grow-up-now world? If you were, wouldn’t you need a little help wading through...

Investing in Time
In 2004 stay-at-home mom Maureen Farinella, a former district manager for Barnes & Noble's software division, realized timing her elementary school-aged children’s...


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Sand-Goh! Offers Better Way to Build
Watching his children build sand castles with buckets and shovels during a 2006 vacation in Anguilla, real estate attorney Jerry Taufield figured...

ZEN™ Challenges Players’ Concentration
Jerrett Metzger, founder of Silly Willy Toys, hopes ZEN, his fortuitous creation, becomes one of those celebrated stories about accidental inventions that...

NITON Has the Edge
After the recall of millions of lead-contaminated toys last summer and fall — some of which had been purchased as far back...

Sport Technology Goes with the Flow
Want to snowboard in the summer? Ten years ago the answer would have been, “Yes, but…” Now, the answer is the...


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Webkinz Knows What Kids Want
Sales of Webkinz, the plush pet toys with virtual online lives, have topped the one-million mark after only 14 months on the...

Mini Motorcycles: The Latest Colossal Thrill
Welcome to the Mini-Moto craze. Also called “Pocket Bikes,” Mini-Motos have truly become a global phenomenon...

The Road to Damascus: A Whole New Fashion Doll for the Middle East
Fulla has taken the Middle East like a wind of change. Will she be coming to America next?...

Scoubiloop: A Craze Jumps an Ocean
Everyone in Europe knows that “cool” is just another word for Scoubidou...

A Few Words About Bratz
Enormous sales have indicated that kids can’t get enough Bratz merchandise. Now, MGA Entertainment has teamed up with publisher, Grosset & Dunlap,...

Urban Vinyl Toys from Kidrobot: Pop Art for a New Generation
The Urban Vinyl Toy scene has exploded in the U.S. and Kidrobot has been on the cutting edge of a wave that...