The toy was originally developed as a learning tool to help young children learn to spell and pronounce over 200 words. Antonella owned these games as a child, but lost them over time. She wanted ...

“Last but not least,” Paddock said, “the Texas Instruments Speak & Spell, an ’80s educational toy, can be sold for anywhere ...

Those of us who were around in the late 70s and into the 80s might remember the Speak & Spell, a children’s toy with a remarkable text-to-speech synthesizer. While it sounds dated by today’s ...

Before it became the darling of circuit benders the world over, the Speak & Spell was a marvel of modern technology. Complete with a microprocessor and voice synthesizer, the Speak & Spell was ...

In this genuinely diabolical plan, the kids will never know they're actually learning while playing with toys until it's too ...

Rewiring audio toys to make new sounds. It involves exposing the circuit board in a device such as a Texas Instruments "Speak & Spell" toy and short circuiting leads until an unusual sound is ...

Texas Instruments Speak & Spell toys, My First Words, and ALphabet Apples. “We tell people to look for plastic, battery-powered children’s playthings that make sounds, that sing happy little ...

a booth displaying backpacks with removable ballistic shields — riddled with bullet marks from testing — was set between booths for the textbook company McGraw Hill and the learning toy Speak ...

Ouija boards have long been a source of fascination and fear, blending curiosity with the eerie unknown. Whether you’re a ...

A dozen hits -- maybe more -- at a spell. Your hands stung at first ... baseball bat when he was a boy of 11 or 12. It was a toy, but they called it "a club." They took him for a ride just ...

How do you spell that again? The more I learned ... trafficker's kids around the corner watching TV and playing with little-kid toys. One (no joke) was holding a helium balloon in the shape ...

Trump came riding into his first term talking of "American carnage," saying the U.S. is "going to hell," that we're "a failing nation," and that violent immigrant groups would bring down the country.