Not So Simple.

In a recent television news discussion, one of the announcers mentioned how many toys being advertised this year were electronic, the idea being that electronics is the new element in everything we do -- even in children's toys. For some reason, these types of profound announcements always sound a little odd and perhaps misinformed to me. I've seldom heard - never actually -- anyone speak of the mechanical nature of toys. And, of course, the more accurate language would be that the majority of toys are electromechanical in nature, since the electronic element is typically only a b