We were fairly impressed with Computer Engineer Barbie's Linux laptop and cellphone when we last saw her at the Toy Fair in New York City. Well, the doll is available now, and her gear has gotten an ...

The impossibly proportioned, looks-obsessed Barbie is hardly a feminist icon, but a book about the doll becoming a computer programmer has taken gender stereotypes to a new level. The book, titled ...

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- A new Barbie book for young kids is causing controversy because shows Barbie venturing into computer engineering, but a few pages in, she needs tech support from her male friends ...

(CBS SF) -- Mattel Inc. is under fire for botching Barbie's latest attempt to empower girls in a new book titled I Can Be a Computer Engineer. In it, Barbie is cast as a would-be computer engineer, ...

Toy laptops and talking dolls may be at the top of many children's Christmas lists, but they come with security warnings. An expert has claimed Mattel's Wi-Fi enabled Barbie can be hacked and the toy ...

Back in the days before kids could be placated with a $50 Android burner phone, many a youngster was gifted a so-called “educational computer” to keep them occupied. Invariably looking like a fever ...

Our more youthful readers are fairly likely to have owned some incarnation of a VTech educational computer. From the mid-1980s and right up to the present day, VTech has been producing vaguely laptop ...