Word: toying
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...gifts. If he had a TV in his room, says the National Institute on Media and the Family, he'd spend an additional 5.5 hours a week watching it. That's about 45 minutes a day that he could be looking at books, playing with his sisters or singing toy commercials...
...their waking moments among Britney, Christina and 'N Sync, Trendmasters' three C-Watches ($20) could be timely stocking stuffers. Push a button, and video snippets appear, with the fave pop star pulling slick dance moves to an overplayed (but catchy) tune. The sound and picture quality of the $20 toy is far from good, but it's still fun--the first 20 times. Parents who suffer psychic damage from prolonged exposure should blame Trendmasters...
Even so, by the age of five the classical holiday commercials depicting Santa crawling down a chimney with a sack full of toys began to grate on my developing rationality. I enumerated a number of problems with the "Santa Hypothesis" ordered by degree of disquietude created: 1) The Logistical Problem: Too many houses existed to visit them all in one night. Counter-argument: Santa might have been able to slowdown or stop time. 2) The Production Problem: The availability of raw materials at the North Pole seemed fairly limited. Also, Santa Inc. did not seem like a viable business, what...
...deception had the desired effect. I withheld judgement on the existence of Santa for another year, and my parents could revel in my naivete. But the next Christmas "Santa" gave my sister a toy that I remembered seeing before in our house. Either Santa was having an economically trying year and had helped himself to some of our older toys, or my parents had misled me all along. Learning the truth was a disappointment, but even more disturbing was the belittlement and the manipulation that previous "evidences" implied. The world had connived to pull one over on me, and that...
Both Gold and Card have this aim in mind, but there the similarities end. Gold is deeply tanned, ponytailed and fast talking, with a background in experimental music and toy design. His group has spent the past couple of years dreaming up utterly outlandish text-display inventions like Speeder Reader. There's the Tilty Table, a vast and thin computer screen on shock absorbers that you tilt in any direction to scroll through a document that would in real life be 30 ft. across; Listen Reader, which uses tiny embedded computer chips to produce different ambient sounds on each page...