We've all labored over an Etch A Sketch at some point in our lives, painstakingly turning the two knobs to create a single-line black drawing on the gray screen. It's a classic toy that hasn't changed ...

(CNN) — While tinkering in his garage, French electrician Andre Cassagnes dreamed up a drawing toy that kids could shake up and start over. Little did he know that more than 50 years later, the toy ...

Remember Etch A Sketch? Remember spending hours honing your fine motor skills in turning the knobs and dials, trying to perfect tracing over the lines? Remember never letting anyone into your room ...

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 ...

To a 7-year-old, it’s practically magic. And while you may grow up and become a little more skeptical about supernatural powers creating whatever you doodle on that red rectangle, it’s still not ...

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 ...

Etch a Sketch View Slideshow 1960: The Etch a Sketch goes on sale. The technology behind this children's toy is both simple and complex. Simple, in that an internal stylus is used, manipulated by ...

Audie Cornish and Robert Siegel have a remembrance of Andre Cassagnes, the inventor of the Etch A Sketch. Cassagnes died Jan. 16 at the age of 86. And I'm Audie Cornish. We're going to take a moment ...

You may not have heard of André Cassagnes — in fact, I'd only come across his name briefly before without knowing much more about him — but you are surely familiar with his most famous invention: the ...

Invented in Paris in the late 1950s, the mechanical drawing toy that would eventually be marketed as “the world’s first laptop” became wildly popular soon after an Ohio company introduced it under a ...