But it is miniscule progress, like a toy shovel of sand being removed from a mountain.
The driver peered down at what probably looked to him like a toy windup car, and revved his engine a few times.
"I kind of want to bring him his own Santa Claus and just have like a toy store in the house, " she says.
"They treated her like a toy, " said special prosecutor Marianne Hemmeter.
Let me get this straight: Children are not allowed to have toy guns that look like the real thing, but adults are allowed to have the real thing that looks like a toy?
In the new procedure, the valve is created by inserting a surgical device that looks like a toy fishing pole into the mouth and snaking it down the throat to where the esophagus meets the stomach.
It's tough to express just how much Pentax's new Q10 mirrorless looks like a toy camera until you see it in-person, so unless you're in Cologne this week, you're going to have to take our word for it.
For instance, the Kids Money app for the iPhone teaches about saving for long-term purchases, like a new toy.
New Miniature Filter narrows the depth of focus and enhances color and contrast to convert your real-life images to look like a magical toy world.
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"It's exactly like making a toy or a sculpture, " says Donnelly.
When the concept was first shown at a 1994 Stuttgart press conference, it looked like a Euro-toy rather than a viable America commuter car.
Vudu is available on thousands of devices (including TVs and PlayStation consoles) and it can work with Wal-Mart to do things like offering a free digital copy of a movie like Toy Story 3 with every purchase of the physical DVD.
Like a shiny new toy boxed up without the batteries needed to make it go, the holiday numbers Amazon released Thursday are pretty.
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He says, "Wait, wait, " like a child about to demonstrate a new toy, and runs to get a book filled with images of the region.
Being pushed out of shape made me realize that I had a shape to return to, like my toy cat who sat on a drum and whose parts were kept in tension by elastic.
The future of the U.S. military looks a bit like a child's toy glider.
Nothing like a kid's toy to seize the attention of grown-up journalists.
Mr. Horvath: We realized that fans around the world weren't seeing us as a plush-toy company but as a brand like Paul Frank or Hello Kitty.
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There are some brushed metal accents, but the majority of the device is slightly glossy plastic that, amazingly, doesn't immediately make us feel like we're manhandling a toy.
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Toy companies like Anatex and Imaginarium --a division of Toys R Us Holdings (nyse: TOY - news - people )--still sell abaci too, since they're often used to teach mathematics to kids.
"Although, like anything else, they're a toy company, they're selling a fantasy figure, a doll for kids to play with, " he said.
Trower's second stage of robotic development includes simple, single-purpose robotic devices like the Roomba or Looj, along with toy robots like WowWee's Robosapien or Lego Mindstorms, a set of programmable robot-building pieces.
Aibo should now also recognize you, making it seem a little bit more like a real dog and a little less as if you're playing with a very expensive toy.
Among the desk decorations, the occasional conventional baby photo seems almost ridiculously un-ironic, amid other personal props like a horde of model dinosaurs riding motorcycles, cuddly toy gremlins with shocking pink fur and knobbly yellow stress balls.
Then there are more existential threats, like a digital generation that favors 99-cent iPad apps over traditional toys, a shrinking number of toy stores and the looming concern that DIY 3-D printing will render premade plastic toys obsolete.
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Toy companies like Anatex and Imaginarium --a division of Toys R Us Holdings--still sell abaci too, since they're often used to teach mathematics to kids.
The three new cameras all come equipped with Picture Effect settings that make it easy to spice up photos, movies and panoramas instantly and automatically with a range of fun, impressive artistic treatments like Toy Camera, Pop Color, Soft High Key and Partial Color.
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Just like his character Pee-wee, Reubens has a pretty impressive toy collection.
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