@NYC Toy Fair 2009 – many of us know Erector as the iconic metal building “toy” for kids.
Erector Set is the trade name of a toy construction set that was wildly popular in the United States during much of the 20th century. Like Meccano that was patented in 1901, it consists of collections of small metal beams with regular holes for nuts, bolts, screws, and mechanical parts such as pulleys, gears, and small electric motors. The Erector Set was invented by A.C. Gilbert in 1911, and was manufactured by the A. C. Gilbert Company at the Erector Square factory in New Haven, Connecticut, from 1913 until its bankruptcy in 1967.
That was then and this is now… In the USA “Erector” is now the SPYKEE an iPod dock robot that can talk and turn off TVs, it’s also a WiFi spy robot that can make me very depressed it seems, amazing!
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