As part of the celebration of music this June in Davis, Davis Arts Center presents Speak & Spell: The Art of Repurposing, Circuit Bending and the Fashionably Retro. The exhibition will run through ...

I can’t remember when exactly the Speak & Spell first entered my life—it was sometime in the very early ‘80s when I was four or five years old—but I do remember being amazed that my parents allowed me ...

The popular kids gadget Speak & Spell commonly found in households through the 1980s is being revived by company Basic Fun!, according to a new report. The revived model brings the same iconic look as ...

While talking computers are old hat today, in 1978, a talking toy like the Speak and Spell was the height of novel tech. [Kevin] found a vintage one, but it didn’t work. It looked like someone had ...

The Speak and Spell, which was first shown at CES in 1978 and sold in 1979, was one of the first gadgets with a visual display to use interchangeable game cartridges, and it taught a whole generation ...

For some of us, the Speak ‘n Spell evokes pleasant memories of childhood as our first computer, along with one of those Merlin things. For others, it’s the ultimate circuit bending victim. For [Jeremy ...

Michael Chamy loves his new Speak and Spell. Sitting outside Recycled Books on the Denton Courthouse Square, Chamy's jittery fingers fly around the toy's letters and buttons, producing a stream of ...