Light dims on cellophane lanterns

In demand: Lim showing off the modern-day lanterns sold at his shop at Carnarvon Street in George Town.

GEORGE TOWN: The tide of technology and a little out-of-the-box thinking has made the Mid-Autumn Festival lantern for children into something else.

Instead of those olden day cellophane and wire lanterns, your kids can choose figurines of robots or princesses that chime and blink.