playware

Noun

1. children's toys that take the form of electronic hardware or software
   • This astonishing breakthrough into the previously dormant market for computer-based playware for girls ushers in a retooling of technology[…] - 2000, Justine Cassell, Henry Jenkins, From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender...
   • By crafting playware that not only appeals to the needs and desires of postindustrial kids but also tethers the latter to a New Age capitalist imagination, Japan is emerging as a toy maker and toy marketer of millennial...
   • What is the pedagogical potential of such so-called 'playful media' as computer games, playware, and personalised, location-based media technology (e.g. pervasive games)? - 2010, Bo Kampmann Walther, Heidi Philipsen,...