And why not? Cardboard boxes have long been a blank canvas for children's imagination. Markers, stickers, tape and some scissors, and they can easily be turned into cars, cribs, fairy houses and even ...

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Nintendo is no stranger to thinking outside the box. That’s how projects such as “Mario Paint,” Game Boy Camera and the Wii Fit are created. The Japanese company takes risks, and they’re sometimes ...

Talk to any parent, and you’ll sooner or later hear a story that goes like this: Someone bought their child an amazing gift, and then the kid spent the rest of the day playing with the box it came in.