When toy manufacturers make talking toys, they use the cheapest chips and speakers possible: 4-kilohertz audio samples played through a 30-cent piezo buzzer would be an extravagance in this industry.

LITHIA, Fla. - When you give your kids a talking Elmo doll, you don't expect the toy to issue death threats but that's what happened when a mother in Florida changed the batteries. The offending toy ...

Remember a few years ago when a talking Elmo potty-training book malfunctioned and cheerfully queried an unsuspecting family with the rhetorical question "Who wants ...

This holiday season, you might find yourself pushing, scratching, biting or pulling the hair of your fellow shoppers for a giggling, gyrating furry monster, a dancing Barbie, a chatty, bilingual cash ...