Basically, the idea is to build components for a doll house that include the wires: you can, literally, wire the doll house up for electronics.

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First up is Robopanda, a Teddy Ruxpin-like doll for tots four-and-up that sports "many advanced sensors" along with a head-mounted IR sensor and stereo sound.

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To keep demand up, the Tamagotchi, like the Barbie doll, continually emerges in new colors and designs.

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And the little girl in the wheelchair shows up as the China Girl, a small porcelain doll that talks.

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He's rigged up a catapult to his mini-fridge, a tiny elevator to carry the beers activate a doll with a remote control - and voila, a beer-tossing machine.

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Lying on the dirt floor of my room looking up at the night sky, I would pray, "Please let me have a pretty doll, " whenever I spotted a shooting star.

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But my older brother James found the lamp under my seat and had to be stopped dashing to the front of the auditorium running up to the stage to claim the spoils which, unbeknown to him, was a great big doll.

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