Scooby-Doo comic gives kids advice on burying themselves alive: "1) Empty stomach by swallowing 90 metres of cloth, then pulling it out."
"The metal discs can be left in the passport or hung around the neck, and are designed to withstand a fire or bomb blast."
"The spoof announcement was designed to teach 14-year-olds the importance of seizing the day but backfired after they became visibly frightened."
Scanned in pages of the Ladybird children's book; I used to have the 1979 one. "Since a computer has no brain, it must have the information fed to it in a particular way - by a code."
"'The toy age is actually peaking these days at 8, and the toy industry is really wondering how to deal with that."
"As I watch Connor play his new Game-Cube, it finally hits me: He doesn't look like a future school shooter or couch potato, he looks like a mini worker bee." They're turning us into bees!
"In studying these diagrams imagine that two boys are going to play a game. To determine who shall play first each boy lags with his shooter."
Annotated aerial photos of childhood territories.
GPS-fed games for bored children and passengers: I-Spy books for the wireless generation. "A rich gaming experience where narrative episodes and embedded gameplay combine with the experience of traveling through the road network."
"If an adult decided to try to tell the child that a Brussels sprout was a chocolate biscuit, the sprout would be rejected - probably because of the visual disparity between the two."
Scans from three 1980s sets. Astonishing both how badly-drawn and how casually, beheadingly gory the Horror decks were, for a kids' game.
"Marketers are hoping to capture future consumers by putting signature smells in ordinary baby products that will later evoke positive memories."
Using a robot vacuum cleaner to encourage children to tidy their rooms, as a game. "Roomba's coming out tonight. Clean up your toys or Roomba will eat them!"
BBFC give the new Doctor Who DVD a 12 certificate. "However cross one might be with a Dalek, being cruel is not the way to deal with the issue."
"Dungeon Squad is a role-playing game designed expressly for young players with short attention spans who demand action and fun. There is a lot of die rolling and some amusing shopping and number-crunching. Characters can be generated in 30 seconds."
"There are lots of basic game design patterns evident in Girlguiding: from learning by doing, to levelling up, trading, socialising, and collecting..."
"Our poll shows children are increasingly responding to a parent's refusal to buy something by quoting a slogan or telephone number from a TV loan advert."
"Training opportunities include a section of brick wall with 4 gaps in it; blind people can be trained to detect the gaps without touching, mainly by different sound echoes, and partly by changes in air pressure on the face."
"Immediately after making this statement, Royal realized that it was true." Throwing a broken family back together, in a film that manages to be facetious without ever quite being throwaway.
Complete waste of an idea. Starts as a potentially-rich story of paramnesia perceived as small-scale conspiracy, messing slightly with the viewer's short-term memory, but spirals clumsily out into thriller-by-numbers and unedited sci-fi ridiculousness.