Toys and Creativity

Food and toys.

Following preliminary approval by the Committee on the Environment and Consumer Defense, the Brazilian Senate is currently analyzing a bill of law with a pedagogical, political, and ethical scope and implications that could ensure it an important role in consolidating principles, standards , and practical measures in the process of food and nutritional security for the Brazilian population. The...

Toxic Toys

principal investigator for the team. His collaborators were Jean-Pierre Kinet, a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School who first cloned the gene for the IgE receptor in 1986, and Scott Garman, a postdoctoral fellow in the Northwestern Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology. About 50 million people in the United States have some form of allergy. Many allergies...

Mobile Robotic Toys and Autism

To help children with autism develop social skills, we are investigating the use of mobile robotic toys that can move autonomously in the environment and interact in various manners (vocal messages, music, visual cues, movement, etc.), in a more predictable and less intimidating way. These interactions are designed to build up their self-esteem by reinforcing what they do well. We report tests ...

Smartphones, Teddy Bears, and Toys

Creativity. Creativity! Creativity?

Once we accept that there is something called creativity we are led to wonder how are the creative people and what are the creative acts. This wonderment compels us to understand the underlying cognitive process in a creative act and the hardware requirements for this process to go on. We then arrive at a position for seeking an implementable model of and the paradoxicalness involved therein. T...