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Another exciting piece of news from the International Toy Fair. It seems like kids are getting their own iPad! Touch-screen technology and educational toys meet on the Fisher-Price iXLand (available for $80), that comes with six preloaded programs allowing kids to read interactive story books, practice handwriting, art and music. Additional programs will be downloaded via the built-in SD slot. Tags: educational toys , Fisher-Price , Fisher-Price educational toys , iPad for kids , touch-screen for kids , touch-screen technology , Toy Fair

Nothing ruins a perfectly lovely Sunday afternoon like spending four hours folding laundry, but imagine a future where a handy housework robot folded your clothes a la the Jetsons. Well, the future is now as a new laundry folding robot has hit the scene. Unfortunately, the future doesn’t move terribly fast yet and the robot takes about thirty minutes to fold a towel, but give it a few years, and you’ll spot these laundry wizards near the washers and dryers at Home Depot.

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Dr. Dennis Hong was kind enough to give us a glimpse the CHARLI robot on The Engadget Show this weekend -- or its leg, anyway -- but he and his students have just now finally revealed the full-sized bot that's been described as a "robot teenager." As we'd heard, CHARLI is actually a series of robots that initially consists of the 5-foot tall CHARLI-L (or lightweight, pictured above), and the forthcoming CHARLI-H (or heavy), both of which are completely autonomous, with a full range of movements and gestures thanks to a series of pulleys, springs, carbon fiber rods, and actuators (not to mention some slightly more mysterious AI).

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Sony is taking a subtle marketing approach for the launch of its WiFi-enabled portable Internet viewer, the Dash. While announcing the device's availability on Thursday, Sony downplayed marketing plans, saying the device would be highlighted on shows such as "The Dr. Oz Show" and "The Martha Stewart Show" and on CNBC programming and make appearances in music videos from Sony Music artists. But the low-key approach indicates Sony doesn't have particularly high hopes for the Dash in the marketplace that is becoming increasingly crowded with Internet-enabled, touchscreen devices. "Sony hasn't had a strong marketing plan for years," John Biggs, editor in chief of the gadget blog CrunchGear.com, tells Marketing Daily . "They make amazing stuff and just push it out the door. ...

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Tokyo: Japanese electronics giant Sony said on Wednesday it had developed what it called “the world’s first” prototype flexible colour video screen that is small enough to be rolled around a pencil. The screen consists of an ultra-thin flexible material covered in organic semiconductors, potentially pointing to a future of flexible mobile devices, television, electronic newspapers and magazines. “Even after 1,000 cycles of repeatedly rolling-up and stretching the display, there was no clear degradation in the display’s ability to reproduce moving images”, Sony said of its flexible Organic Light Emitting Display (OLED). Sony is not the only Japanese firm developing long-lasting flexible displays, with public broadcaster NHK having also worked on similar techniques in recent years. Japan’s department of New Energy and Industrial Technologies (Nedo) is also leading a research programme in a bid to create a manufacturing chain for the displays similar to the way newspapers are printed.