Gadgetory

at Toy Fair in New York City it's all about the tech I'm Bridget Carey we'd seen a TV and it's time to play we all know Barbie is the queen of fashion and they're sure to take this to a whole new tech level this is the Barbie photo fashion doll and here on her shirt is an LCD screen on the back is a camera and using her belt you can take photos and turn them into whatever she's wearing on her shirt she's gonna be about $50 and available in the fall fisher-price has the Kids Huff portable DVD this is just for kids it's covered in rubber so it could take a beating it records 2 hours of video content and expandable to two more hours if you have an SD card slot it connects to the TV and kids can set it up to 24 hours in advance to record their favorite shows and take it on the go this is the Yip it the new pet for fidget this is by Mattel it's gonna be available in the fall for about thirty to forty dollars and these are dynamic interactive pets you can train them you can sing along with them and you can play games with them but what's really cool is they also interact with sounds and they interact with other fidgets so if I clap this little guy will interact toys that work with iPad apps are the big trend this year and Mattel is getting involved with a new line called activity whether it's Barbie Hot Wheels these toys for about $10 each will interact with their own apps on the iPad and it's more than just Barbie and Hot Wheels they're even going into existing apps like Angry Birds cut the rope and fruit ninja' and you're going to start to see these around July the app craze has even gotten to babies this is the last and learn activity monkey by Mattel he's $30 available in July and what you do is you put an iPhone or iPod touch in here and whenever you press his foot or his hands he'll interact now it's this is glove force technology and this is the force Flyer it's an RC helicopter completely controlled by this tool oh it's going to be available in May it's $50 and also comes in bugle for now the Activision booth Skylanders are the focus there's a new game coming out called Skylanders Giants these characters are much bigger than the original Skylanders were they have glow light-up technology so when they get close to the base station they start to glow now the whole point of the base station is that once you put them on he's in the game so if you go to a friend's house whether they have a Playstation a Wii or Xbox 360 that same data goes with you if you're not quite ready to get your child their own iPad how about a tablet of their own it's just a curio it's $200 and it's made for kids because it's fully customizable for parents so they can control what apps are on here how many profiles for different kids to trade back and forth it's going to be available in September so although tech and apps are playing a big role in this toy fair you can tell we're only at the I'm Krystina TV I'm Bridget Carey