'It draws and writes like magic!" says the announcer, in the eager tones of early sixties TV advertising. "No crayons, no chalks, never any mess!" The key word in that early pitch for the Etch A ...

Unless you’re a savant born with unnatural abilities for using two knobs to create artistic masterpieces, the Etch A Sketch drawing toy gets less appealing the older you get. I was surprised to find ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In 1960 every western child wanted an Etch-A- Sketch. It wasn't so much a toy as a link to the future.

Etch A Sketch celebrates its 60th birthday this year, and the makers of the classic drawing toy has some Marvel-ous presents for budding illustrators everywhere. Spin Master — which took over the Etch ...

A Canadian toy company is drawing up new plans for a classic children's plaything after buying the rights to the Etch A Sketch brand from its U.S. owners. The Ohio Art Company announced Thursday that ...

Andre Cassagnes launched the toy, with its grey screen, red frame and two white knobs that are twisted back and forth to create drawings, in 1960 You can save this article by registering for free here ...

The once-magic Etch A Sketch meets the now-magical iPad in what can only be termed as a magicsplosion of magicnanimous magicsticism. The Etch A Sketch iPad Case costs $39, is "made of impact resistant ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When the Etch A Sketch debuted for sale in 1960, NASA was still sketching out plans for how to ...

Last Saturday, in a little-noticed event fraught with cosmic significance, Etch A Sketch became the first children's plaything ever to inspire a question on a presidential primary exit poll. (Had ...

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. — Psalm 103:12 The little red rectangular box was magical. As a kid, I could play with it for hours. When I ...