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- uncountablechildren's toys that take the form of electronic hardware or software
This astonishing breakthrough into the previously dormant market for computer-based playware for girls ushers in a retooling of technology[…]
2000, Justine Cassell, Henry Jenkins, From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games2 more examples
By crafting playware that not only appeals to the needs and desires of postindustrial kids but also tethers the latter to a New Age capitalist imagination, Japan is emerging as a toy maker and toy marketer of millennial times.
2006, Anne Allison, Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global ImaginationWhat is the pedagogical potential of such so-called 'playful media' as computer games, playware, and personalised, location-based media technology (e.g. pervasive games)?
2010, Bo Kampmann Walther, Heidi Philipsen, Lise Agerbæk, Norbert Wildermuth, Lars Bo Løfgreen, Anette Grønning, Cynthia Grund, Jesper Pilegaard, Designing New Media, page 9
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playware. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/playware
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