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Toys that communicate over a distance
Dolls communication. "PlayPals are wireless figurines with their electronic accessories that allow children aged 5-8 to communicate between remote locations. When a child at one location moves one doll’s hands, the remote synchronized doll moves its hands in the same way. The dolls alone communicate only by gestures. Each child has a set of tokens that are used as the dolls’ accessories. When a token is placed in a doll’s hands, it functions as a different communicating tool: adding a “walkie-talkie” token to the doll, enables synchronous voice communication, a microphone for asynchronous is used for voice communication, a video camera for synchronous audio-visual communication, a digital camera for asynchronous visual communication, etc."

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Posted by Richard on February 7, 2006 04:11 PM