Article: Hasbro's Sound Bites Plays Music via Lollipop.

By Chris Reidy, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

NEW YORK--Feb. 12--It may not knock Sing & Snore Ernie off the best-selling toy charts, but Hasbro Inc. thinks it has a winner on its hands -- a lollipop that behaves like a Walkman or a private jukebox.

Introduced here yesterday at the annual American International Toy Fair, Sound Bites is a lollipop holder that plays melodies -- and rude noises -inside a person's head.

The $9.99 toy works this way: Insert a lollipop into the Sound Bites holder. Then bite down on the lollipop. A computer chip in the holder transmits vibrations through the teeth directly to the inner ...

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