As for intellectual advantages, parents soak their babies in Mozart with dubious effect, put a toy computer in the crib, elbow their way into the best preschools to speed them on their path to Harvard.

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And for those cyberfans who view the computer as their favorite toy, there are real toys, like the 1966 Brainiac electric brain kit, designed by pioneering computer theoretician Edmund C.

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Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.

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Because they are bought by adults as well as children, they are sold in computer and music stores rather than toy shops.

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"Yeah, it is, " I replied, thinking about all the times I'd seen him pretend to shoot people with toy guns and with the mouse on his computer.

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Then came an 10-year hiatus during which he had high-profile successes (buying Pixar Animation Studios from George Lucas before they made it big with "Toy Story") and failures (founding NeXT Computer, whose pricey, cube-shaped computer workstations never caught on).

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At a glance you might mistake it for a toy--or, better yet, the Apple II computer, which sparked a revolution.

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Billy, the playful computer-generated baby who appears in the short film Tin Toy, helped Richmond, Calif.

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Ten years ago, "Toy Story" became the first feature-length animated film done entirely on a computer.

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Otellini's people have scoffed at the super-cheap laptop as a toy, lacking too many real-world functions to actually help poor kids learn computer skills.

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