Tag: toy
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Hasbro Battles ASUS Over “Transformer Prime” Name – Tablet Rips Off Vintage Toy Line!
Hasbro, the American makers of popular action toys, is taking computing company ASUS to court over its use of the name “Transformer” on its popular range of tablet-come-laptops. And for those who shrug that off as pure co-incidence – consider that the full name of the latest gadget in the line is “Transformer Prime”. Just when…
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Only in Japan! – Plastic ‘Cloning’ puts your face onto an Action Figure!
A Japanese company called ‘The Clone Factory’ has developed a way to make a boyhood dream come true. By using state-of-the-art photography and 3D printing techniques they turn the Average Joe into GI:JOE! Using a circle of super-sensitive cameras, snaps are taken of an applicant’s whole head – picking up every possible detail from the…
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Hasbro’s My3D viewer for iPhone and iPod Touch – fun and inexpensive accessory goes on sale.
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Amidst a marketplace of serious smartphones and 3D gadgets it’s nice to see toy-masters Hasbro throwing their efforts in to offer a little fun and games to the scene – in the eye-popping form of the iPhone and iPod Touch compatible My3D viewer! You may remember the ViewMaster that’s been around since the 40s, the optical toy…