36 toys pick up honours across 12 categories. The winners of the Toy Fair Best New Toy Awards have been announced for the seventh year at Toy Fair, predicting some of the top new toys for 2015. Winners range from household names such as ...
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Love it or hate it, technology in toys is here to stay – January's Toy Fair was testament to that. There's a growing market for app toys but it's a tricky path to navigate. We're still a few years off parents giving their ...
A trio of toy companies are on the hunt for distribution partners to help get their products in more stores. UK-based Rainbow Colours, which uses coloured guitar strings, books and more to teach kids how to learn an instrument in a fun ...
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Remember when Mattel used a giant iPad to showcase its app toys? Now it's gone one step further - the firm's Fisher-Price label showed off a Giant Baby Bouncer at the 2013 Baby Show this weekend. It also had its new Apptivity app ...
I should have known better. After all, I’m the former managing editor of Mobile Entertainment, I can boast a long stint as editor of video games publication MCV, and I’m now publisher of B2B titles covering PC, tech and ...
Tags: in-App Purchases, Mobile Entertainment, mobile games, app toys, tablets
My three-year-old niece has an iPad. Ok, so it’s the family iPad, but she uses it frequently. As do her parents and her 12-year-old brother. Although they like the idea of kids’ tablets, for whatever reason her parents ...
A range of Disney DreamPlay Toys that come to life when using a tablet or smartphone have been revealed. The Augmented Reality products, made by Jakks Pacific, were shown off for the first time at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las ...
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Despite a recent backlash by play purists who argue that electronic toys stifle imagination and are environmentally-unfriendly, electronic toys are very popular with children and are taking an increasing share of the toy market. So what ...
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It's the most wonderful time of the year. In the toy business, it's the time when we get to see which lines live up to the hype and go on to become best-sellers. But with 2013 now not too far away, you might be looking foward to what ...
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