TOYS AND TECHNOLOGY

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...

Change and Learning in Technology Management: Totems, Toys, Traps, and Transmogrification

Technology management is both a planned strategy and an emergent process. To integrate both, technology and the management of technology may be contemplated from a four-point metaphorical structure technology as totem, technology as toy, technology as trap, and technology as transmogrtjkation. A totem is an emblem held in respect and symbolizing hope; a toy is an object for play, entertainment,...

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