A Doll That Can Recognize Voices, Identify Objects and Show Emotion

by Michel Marriott New York Times, 25 Aug 2005 Judy Shackelford, who has been in the toy industry for more than 40 years, has seen a lot of dolls. But none, she says, like her latest creation, a marvel of digital technologies, including speech-recognition and memory chips, radio frequency tags and scanners, and facial robotics. She and her team have christened it Amazing Amanda. Read more