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Thomas Edison's talking dolls in 1890 became nightmare fuel due to creepy voice recordings. Its eerie sound earned it the name ‘little monsters’Thomas Edison’s talking dolls were designed to delight children with recorded nursery rhymes, but their strange voices made the toys far le...- In 1966, Ralph Baer proposed using a television for interactive games; his experiments led to the Brown Box and the Magnavox Odyssey, released in 1972Ralph Baer, an engineer at Sanders Associates, conceptualized a video game system connected to televisions in 1966. His efforts led to the ...
- Pandas then, pandas now: Trump and Xi are well past Nixon-era magicDonald Trump and Xi Jinping recently met in Washington to symbolize cooperation in US-China relations. The summit featured the announcement...
- An American village had a population of just one person left in 2004. That only resident also became its mayor, clerk and bartenderMonowi, a tiny village in Nebraska, was left with just one resident after Elsie Eiler’s husband died in 2004. Instead of leaving, Eiler sta...
- Raksha Bandhan special: From fighting over TV remote to late-night secrets and sharing snacks, 7 nostalgic childhood sibling memories you’ll relate toBefore smartphones, streaming and endless reels, Indian siblings created their own entertainment and memories. From fighting over the TV re...
- Inside Mexico’s haunting Island of the Dolls: A girl drowned here. Then hundreds of dolls began appearing. The haunting story behind this mysterious placeMexico’s Island of the Dolls, located in the Xochimilco canals, is covered with hundreds of weathered, broken dolls linked to a haunting lo...
- In 1943, he was trying to solve a World War II crisis, but a failed experiment accidentally created one of the most famous toys ever madeSilly Putty invention: A wartime effort to develop synthetic rubber accidentally led to the invention of Silly Putty. Although the stretchy...
- Your Dog Might Understand Conversations You Never Meant For Them To HearNew research reveals dogs can learn new words just by listening to conversations. This passive learning mirrors how human toddlers acquire ...
- Are Lafufus a bigger hit than Labubus? Here’s the difference and why they are so popularThe "ugly-cute" Labubu plush toys by Pop Mart are highly sought after, but a surge of affordable knockoffs called Lafufu has emerged, produ...
- “Woke up to Labubu closer to my bed”: eerie doll incidents spark fear; influencers burn their LabubusLabubu, a toy from Hong Kong, became popular in India. Celebrities like Ananya Panday were seen with it. Soon, people linked it to bad luck...
- The Simpsons predicted it again? Fans claim mysterious rise of Labubu doll has demonic ties, and the internet can’t unsee itA viral Simpsons clip has sparked eerie comparisons to Labubu, a popular plush toy now at the centre of internet conspiracy theories. Origi...
- Not Republic Day, it's show weaponry dayWhat a K-9 Vajra self-propelled howitzer gun has to do with India's republic status, only the military-industrial-patriotic complex will be...
- Hollywood veteran Tim Allen to return as Buzz Lightyear in 'Toy Story 5'Allen has been the voice of the popular animated character Buzz Lightyear since the 1995.
- It's Republic Day, not 'Rmament DayIn an age when representative democracies seem fragile, when republics often fail to encapsulate the best of us, it is essential that we ce...
- Tom Hanks asks why Pixar replaced Tim Allen as the voice of Buzz LightyearRecently, Pixar replaced Tim Allen for the voiceover of Buzz Lightyear. They appointed Chris Evans in his place, making Tom Hanks question ...
- JK Rowling releases Christmas book about 'being lost and found' inspired by son's toy pigs'The Christmas Pig' is a story about "loving and being loved."
- Things to keep in mind when getting intimate on a holidayThis holiday season whether you’re headed to a beach or mountains, it’s also when you’re most likely to be relaxed with your girlfriend.
- Movie Review: RoyRoy prides in a happy ending, but you come back with a feeling that there is so much more that could have been done.
- What You SeeWe read that one of the world's leading primatologists, Jane Goodall, used to say that every time she looked into the eyes of a chimpanzee,...
- Cutlass codeIn the flood of sepia-tinted memories from childhood, one lingers in blood-red crimson. It involves the watchman of our society, Rang-Bahad...
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