Tag: TOY

Augmented reality is fun but -- let's face it -- kinda gimmicky. Kids, though, they love gimmicky. The 'Helicopter Taxi' iPhone app lets children fly a virtual 3-D helicopter around the real world, picking up and dropping off virtual passengers along the way. It should be said that 'Helicopter Taxi' is not a game, as there are no points to earn or goals to achieve. This is a $1.99 digital ...

Have you bought yourself a Slinky, but just can't find the time to play with it? Or, are you an obsessive compulsive Slinky-er, and absolutely can't stand the thought of your precious toy going to waste? Or maybe a high-paid executive whose Newton's Cradle has lost the thrill it once had? Well, inventor Jim Sellers has you covered. Sellers has created the Slink-O-Matic, a machine that will ...

Perhaps it's just the video arcade generation, but playing a racing game like 'Mario Kart' without actually being behind the wheel of a car has always left us feeling a bit empty inside. Fortunately, though, electronics accessories manufacturer CTA has finally scratched our hard-to-reach itch. As Joystiq reports, the company has just unveiled a life-changing Wii accessory -- in the form of a ...

Share Well, we should've seen this one coming. If you want to prime your toddler for a life of sitting in a cubicle, please go out and immediately purchase the Little Explorer computer workstation. Seriously, this $2,600 toy is available now and, although it wouldn't look spectacular with the rest of our home design scheme, it is bright and Fisher-Price-y in the way youngins love. The Little ...

A New Zealand toddler gave her parents a shock (to say the least) when she purchased a $12,000 Kobelco digger on an auction Web site. According to Australian newspaper The Age, Three-year-old Pipi Quinlan woke up before the rest of her family and made her way to the family computer. After booting up Internet Explorer, Pipi navigated to an online auction site called Trade Me. Since her mother's ...

Bandai, the company that makes Tamagotchi and Power Ranger toys, is targeting a slightly more mature audience (we hope) with its newest novelty item: a beer can simulator. The $9 toy is a plastic recreation of the top of a beer can, complete with a pop top that plays an electronic sound simulating the opening of a beer can every time you pull it. Every 30 times you pull the tab, it plays what ...

We spent a week at the 2009 New York Toy Fair a couple of weeks ago and came away with a renewed desire to be ten-years old again. This episode of our Toy Fair series showcases four new high-tech toys: Ollo Bug Kits: This miniature build-it-yourself kits are meant to introduce kids to simple robotics, but we couldn't resist their charming design aesthetic. These little guys can ...

Mattel was on hand showing off a pile of new toys at CES to be released in the fall. Easily the most intriguing is the Mind Flex, the perfect toy for someone who loves puzzles but hates themselves. With the Mind Flex, you guide a foam ball through a completely customizable obstacle course, using your mind to levitate it along the way. We got a little hands-on time with it and put it through its ...

We can't wait to get our hands on the Duck Hunter from Interactive Toy Concepts, the same company that brought us last year's favorite, the RC Cooler. The Duck Hunter takes the Nintendo classic 'Duck Hunt' and moves it into the physical world... minus the real fire arms and bloody carcasses that would normally be involved. A small version of their iFly line of robotic fliers is painted up to ...

Come on folks, say it in unison with us: "Finally!" At long last, a company with a little clout has stood up and questioned the necessity of those ridiculous hard plastic containers that hold minuscule flash cards and the like (along with plastic twist-ties), and better still, it's already doing something about it. Beginning today, consumers who are tired of borrowing the fire department's Jaws ...

We're going out on a limb here and assuming that the Haute Diggity Dog iBone comes jailbroken and ready to rock, or at least that's the impression we get from checking out that heretofore unseen bevy of icons. Customized for the "tech savvy dog on the go," this here iPhone chew toy gives dear Fido access to bark / hand-shake training, posture lessons, Washington Huskies sports updates (it's the ...

Kids say the darndest things sometimes -- real or plastic. Just take Fisher-Price's twenty-dollar Cuddle & Coo doll, for instance. As seen in the linked video, one Texas mother's Cuddle & Coo doll clearly says, "Islam is the light!" in a creepy uplifting voice, no less. Now, as Colin Powell reminded us last Sunday, there's absolutely nothing wrong with being a follower of Islam (or any ...

After the whole Tickle Me Elmo craze a few years back, you just knew Fisher-Price was going to ride this wave until it simply couldn't stay afloat any longer. Elmo Live!, hailed as the "most innovative and engaging Elmo toy ever," will officially hit store shelves tomorrow (October 14th) for $59.99, though we suspect the first batch will be snapped up in no time flat. Of course, those of you ...

Playskool's Kota the Triceratops is a robot dinosaur that uses 11 sensors to respond to touch and sound by wiggling its horns, wagging its tail and turning its head. It also plays a few "adventure themed songs." Best of all, it can't stampede or impale anyone; like the animatronic Triceratops in 'Jurassic Park,' Kota can't get up and move around. That won't stop kids from adoring it though. Like ...

Move over Aibo, take a seat, creepy humanoid robot doll, Pekoppa has arrived! Sega's eagerly anticipated nodding robotic plant is finally here, at least in Japan, though we expect that it will soon be turning up in children's bedrooms and on the window sills of retirement homes stateside, delighting the immature and the elderly with its fantastic capacity to acknowledge that it is listening/ ...