Curio, a Redwood City startup, sells stuffed animals, including a talking rocket plushie called Grok that’s voiced by artist Grimes, who has children with billionaire Elon Musk. Bondu, a San Francisco ...

Remember "Ted", that comedy/fantasy starring Mark Wahlberg, with the teddy bear that comes to life? How cool would it be to have such a talking and walking stuffed toy as your best friend? Anima ...

When I worked at Worlds of Wonder, the startup that brought the hit plush talking bear Teddy Ruxpin to market in the 1980s, I didn’t fully feel the impact he had on kids because I didn’t have any.

Is Peacock a streaming service or a toybox? It’s getting harder to tell because there are now two different shows on the platform about talking toys. One of them is a Teddy bear with a tendency for ...

When Nintendo’s NES became available to U.S. buyers in late 1985, kids couldn’t get enough. From that moment on, it was all about new tech. Toys with microchips moved to the top of Christmas lists in ...