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[Real Reality]

The new toys include:
Pixel Chix, from Mattel Inc., a handheld gadget in the shape of a house that lets a child interact with an animated girlfriend. The toy will retail for $29.99.

Winnie the Pooh or Elmo Knows Your Name, from Mattel's Fisher-Price, a doll that can know a child's name and other personal details, such as his or her birthday and favorite games. Using a cable connection and a CD-ROM, parents can download key information into the characters. Each will be priced at $39.99.

A new version of Furby, from Hasbro Inc., which boasts a new technology called emotronics that brings the plush toy more to life. It will be able to speak interactively with the child and reacts to words like "hungry." It will be priced at $39.99.

Amazing Amanda, from Playmates Toys Inc., a 21-inch doll that can recognize her "mommy's" voice and respond after hearing it just three times. The doll is expected to sell for $99.99.

NPD Group, a market research company, said high-tech toys are helping to stabilize the overall toy business. Although overall sales fell 3 percent to $20.1 billion in 2004 from $20.7 billion in 2003, following a 2.9 percent drop in 2003, some products showed improvement. Action figures and building sets, which suffered double-digit declines in 2003, saw minimal losses in 2004, NPD said.
Toys Getting High-Tech Bells and Whistles
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050218/ap_on_hi_te/toy_fair_high_tech_toys

[Zenpickle]

Five years ago I bought a talking Pooh doll for my kids that hooked up to the computer and could speak their names and play games. It doesn't sound like anything new, except a few dollars cheaper than in 1999.

[tzechuk]

Where can I find them?!