For doodlers who can't get enough etching and sketching at home, Etch-A-Sketch is coming to a cell phone. The nearly 50-year-old classic toy, adapted for the mobile phone by a company named In-Fusio, ...

'It draws and writes like magic!" says the announcer, in the eager tones of early sixties TV advertising. "No crayons, no chalks, never any mess!" The key word in that early pitch for the Etch A ...

When people want to be nasty about Apple’s iPad, calling it a glorified Etch A Sketch is a common insult. Although given the warm glow of nostalgia that engulfs many people at the thought of the retro ...

BRYAN, Ohio (AP) – The Ohio company that has produced or owned the Etch A Sketch for decades has sold the classic toy to a toy firm in Toronto. FILE – In this June 26, 2008 file photo, an ...

Users will son be able to draw on their mobile phone screens using keypads. The drawings can be saved on the phone. To delete the drawings, users press '0 and the phone vibrates — mimicking the ...

Etch A Sketch will draw a new path for itself after its first shakeup in a half century. The Bryan, Ohio-based metal lithography firm that owned the famously rectangular, red, mechanical drawing toy ...

Daneeca Medina didn’t see what the big deal was. Until her friends were standing around the kitchen table in that dumbfounded way. Until classmates started hovering over her shoulders. Until strangers ...

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It was spring, 1960, and 21-year-old Bill Killgallon was mesmerized by a toy that his dad, Ohio Art Co. executive William Casley Killgallon, got at a toy fair in Nuremberg, Germany. “My father had ...

This Kickstarter project for the iPad isn't your usual digital-only app re-creation of a phenomenon from yesteryear. It's a remarkable facsimile. Ed is a many-year veteran of the writing and editing ...

[Photo: Ari Krupnik] Before tablets, MS Paint, computers, or heck, even paper (ok, that last part is a flat-out lie), the only cool way to draw a picture was with an Etch-a-Sketch. Now, the minds ...