Despite appearances, [This Old Tony]’s latest series has little to do with CNC-ifying an Etch A Sketch. Although he certainly achieves that, more or less, automating the classic toy is just the hook ...

The Etch A Sketch controversy continues to (wait for it) draw itself out this week. Amazon says sales of the toy is up 1,556 percent. Shares of stock in Ohio Arts, the company that makes the toy, have ...

The iconic Etch A Sketch is one of the few remaining analog toys that can capture a child's attention for hours on end. You could probably swap a kid's tablet with one of these, and he or she would ...

Mitt Romney's press aide, Eric Fehrnstrom, has made headlines for his now-infamous television gaffe in which he said that: "I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It ...

When Tim Gallenbeck saw an Etch A Sketch at a thrift store for 99 cents in 2013, he picked it up for his daughters. He ended up being the one to play with it, and now he creates intricate art using ...

One of the best things about the iPad is its ability to become an entirely new gadget every time you open a new app, or even connect it to an accessory. We've seen arcade-style cabinet docks that turn ...

It was spring, 1960, and 21-year-old Bill Killgallon was mesmerized by a toy that his dad, Ohio Art Co. executive William Casley Killgallon, got at a toy fair in Nuremberg, Germany. “My father had ...

Sixty-five years after it first hit store shelves, the iconic, red-framed drawing toy continues to enchant kids, artists, and collectors alike Aurora Martínez - Staff Contributor The Smithsonian’s own ...

Daneeca Medina didn’t see what the big deal was. Until her friends were standing around the kitchen table in that dumbfounded way. Until classmates started hovering over her shoulders. Until strangers ...

In Netflix's 2022 psychological thriller, Spiderhead, Miles Teller’s character, Jeff, is often seen tinkering with an Etch A Sketch and making incredible pieces of art. In reality, those pieces, all ...

The Etch A Sketch was never supposed to meet a Raspberry Pi, a camera, or a mathematical algorithm, but here we are. [Tekavou]’s Teka-Cam and TekaSketch are a two-part hack that transforms real photos ...