Decades ago japanese companies produced heaps of cheap , plastic playthings .
几十年前，日本的公司还在生产着大量的廉价塑料玩具。
One way to find out is to look to the animal kingdom , where there are no gender-specific playthings .
有一种方法可以探寻答案，就是转向动物王国，那里没有针对特定性别的玩具。
For western consumers , the lost lives were an invitation to consider the real cost of their electronic playthings .
对于西方的消费者来说，他们的电子玩具包含了生命失去的成本。
In the 1980s nobody foresaw that mobile phones would become anything more than executive playthings ; and the runaway success of text-messaging took the entire industry by surprise .
The toy industry is tapping into children 's fascination with tablets and smartphones by rolling out new playthings that connect with touch-screen devices .
