Etch A Sketch

President Obama’s campaign accuses Mitt Romney of Etch A Sketch moment on energy

18 May 2012

The Obama campaign on Thursday accused Mitt Romney of another Etch A Sketch moment after the Republican front-runner’s campaign told the Globe that Romney supports an “all-of-the-above energy strategy.� President Obama has used the same phrase to describe his own energy policy. “That’s the energy strategy that Governor Romney has attacked President Obama for pursuing� spokesman Ben LaBolt said ...

Etch-a-Sketch 3.0 hands-on (video)

15 May 2012

The Etch-a-Sketch . A standard bearer for childhood, and one that most of us never really mastered. While Yelizaveta Lokshina can't help you create awe-inspiring portraits from aluminum powder, she has managed to update the toy for the digital age. Using an Arduino, a few buttons and a pressure sensor crammed inside a hollowed-out Etch-a-Sketch, the 3.0 version of the doodler is able to draw in ...

Etcher brings Etch A Sketch to the iPad

14 May 2012

Even those of us who live for new technology and the wonders it brings cannot escape the power of nostalgia. Being reminded of a toy that fascinated us as children can snap us back to those heady days when stress meant not getting everything you asked for from Santa. This is the feeling that the people behind Etcher are hoping to capitalize on - it's an Etch A Sketch for the iPad... Continue ...