In the basement of Rapson Hall, University of Minnesota assistant professor Barry Kudrowitz and his students come together three times a week to make toys. A lime green NERF gun he designed sits on ...

Fingerlings inventor Sydney Wiseman explains how her viral toy success inspired her to create playful medical tools for ...

For most people the process by which toys are made is often a total mystery, even more so in Japan where the complexity and sophistication of the toys themselves are often several orders above ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Remember when your parents told you to “share your toys” with others? Now, Purdue mechanical engineering students are sharing their toys with the public as part of an annual ...

Fisher-Price calls it the Batbot Xtreme. A towering 28 inches of crime-fighting hyperbole, the Batbot is a Batcave on legs, complete with tracheal elevator, the pop-out wingspan of an Airbus, giant ...

Correction, April 5, 11:44 a.m.: [An earlier version of this story stated that Bezalel Academy of Art and Design was part of Hebrew University. In fact, it is a separate entity located on the Hebrew ...

Design, at its heart, should be about making things better. Whether aesthetically or experientially, the craft should operate as a seamless bridge between a product’s function and the person ...

Dutch design graduate creates a lightweight toy car that only moves forward with the right level of concentration. He imagines it could help those with attention deficit disorders. Michelle Starr ...