Posts: General / Highlights from 2010 Toy Fair

I'm a Barbie cam, in a Barbie chest.



Every wonder what the world looks like from Barbie's chest. Well you sicko you chance has finally cometh. Check out Barbie cam, which records high quality video worthy of you tube.



New and improved ball in a cup....Mexico favorite toy for over 340 years



The Bounce pad senses the ball's impact and tracks how much time lapses between bounces to guestimate how high the bounce was. There are several game challenges, including how many times you can bounce the ball in one minute (our demo hit an amazing 132) or how high you can toss and recover.

But more or less it's still pretty much ball in a cup.



Not your grandmother's pogo stick



Ever wonder what would be the most efficent way to smash your skull into your brains well wonder no more. This  pogo stick in hyperdrive has 1,000 enchancements that can add up to a foot to vertical leaps, not least of which are a streamlined chassis and piston infrastructure. Which basically means you jump real high.



Reinventing the training wheel



This new take on training wheels doesn't add to a kid's bike; instead it replaces the front wheel entirely. The Gyro Wheel has an internal gyroscope that spins at up to 2,000 rpms to help steady the wheel and keep it upright. As the tike's ride gets steadier, the speed can be turned down to give a little less assistance.

I waiting for car companies to get in on this technology. I think all anyone under 25 and over 50 should be required to get these on their cars.



Carbonite-frozen Han Solo Lego figurine



It's not high tech or anything but it's pretty freakin cute.



Puppy Tweets



Literally get regular "tweets" about what your dog is doing throughout the day. I would love to make fun of this but frankly I think it's pretty freakin awesome. I would love to get one for my bird. Who I personally think would have more interesting status updates then the crap most people post



Flash Scrabble



 "Each of the five blocks displays a letter, and you have a minute to line them up and create as many three- to five-letter words as possible. Sensors on the sides of the bricks sense when they are lined up and keep a tally of your correct combos." Does anyone else notice that in the picture those scrabble blocks are not actually letters? WTF???

Toys are always getting cooler.
I heard there is a digital camera coming out that has an extra lens equipped that will allow you to take 3D photos.

I"m very curious to know how the dog Tweet thing works.   



If I had designed it, all the tweets would say nothing but "Arf! Arf arf arf!" .