Tech Toys Dominate Toy Fair 2007

Edis Krad writes "An CNN Money article previews the Hot Toys for 2007 from this past week's Toy Fair. The article is a great place to start looking through the hundreds of new products that were on display at the annual industry event. Among those featured in the article, I was particularly impressed with the Video Journal (blogging for kids?), the virtual bicycle (apparently, riding a real bicycle isn't cool enough anymore), and last but not least, the robotic parrot, that oddly reminds me of the replicant owl in Blade Runner. For more details on tech toys at the event, IEEE Spectrum has a rundown on the nerdier toys available. Artificial snow and a pre-assembled Mentos/Coke kit were two of that journalist's favorites. For different perspectives Forbes has a look at the toy business as it stands since last week, and Wired's Luddite column crabs that kids have too many techie toys nowadays. Dagnabit."

Comments

Re:To many tech toys?

[hack slash]

It is possible to have too many tech toys, you start running out of space to put them all... as I found out from experience.

Anyone wanna buy a BigTrak?

Robotic parrot

[iminplaya]

Is 'e a Norwegian Blue?

wtf?

[User 956]

Artificial snow and a pre-assembled Mentos/Coke kit were two of that journalist's favorites.

How lazy do you have to be to need the pre-assembled mentos & coke? honestly?

HONESTLY?

Re:To many tech toys?

[Der Reiseweltmeister]

You know you have too many tech toys when you forget what color the sky is.

Might be troublesome in some places

[RinzeWind]

An CNN Money article previews the Hot Toys for 2007 from this past week's Toy Fair.

Article not available for Alabama readers.

Re:Might be troublesome in some places

[dorpus]

Are you sure Alabama doesn't have adult toy stores? I live in Alabama, and my ex-girlfriend took me to one.

Plug-n-play?

[zlogic]

Fisher-Price has figured out a smart way for busy parents to keep an eye on their energetic toddler. It's called a Smart Cycle -- a stationary cycle that uses TV plug-and-play technology. Soon we'll be having plug-n-play lamps - you plug it into the wall socket, and it works instantly!
Now that's smart!

I want to know about the optimus prime helmet

[way2trivial]

will it FIT my larger than the guy in the picture head..

I would so love to carry that in my car, just to occasionally trip people up....

Re:To many tech toys?

[MindKata]

"forget what color the sky is"

I maybe be able to remember, if you tell me what level you got to?