New Plugged-In Toys Follow Kids Online

Girlz Connect's Destiny, left, and Girlz Connect Locket Pal are displayed in the Bandai America showroom Monday, Feb. 12, 2007 at the American International Toy Fair in New York. As kids keep getting plugged into the Internet, toy makers are following them online. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

(AP) -- As kids keep getting plugged into the Internet, toy makers are following them online. At the annual American International Toy Fair this week, toy makers showed playthings like Power Rangers helmets which store secret missions found online, plenty of online games and even devices that take kids to secure Web sites where they can play activities without wandering into the darker corners of the Internet.

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