@The NYC Toy fair 2008 Insect Lore showed off their live butterfly, ladybug, silkworm and other insect kits for education / home use. You don’t need to catch the Butterflies, they actually ship live caterpillars. They also have an earthworm nursery, for some reason I really like the idea of kids raising worms… and of […]
@The NYC Toy fair 2008 there are a few sculpting / clay / plaster companies, one of them is Activa – they have the usual collection of sculpting and clay products, but what I think is really interesting for crafters is their air dry doll clay, the works created with these clays were really amazing […]
@The NYC Toy fair 2008 Erector was there, perhaps best known for Erector sets – but these folks had a mind blowing product line that I didn’t expect. They have a series of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth robots that work with iPhones and iPods and controllable from anywhere in the world. They had their “classic” Erector […]
@The NYC Toy fair 2008 I saw the first 360 panoramic camera for kids, but I suspect this will be popular with adults too. They set up the camera so it had an Eye-Fi wireless SD camera, so you’d take a photo and in seconds, literally – there was a 360 pano on the screen. […]
@The NYC Toy fair 2008 it was reassuring to see ViewMaster, I figured they were long gone since the TuberNet has since dominated both eyes for while – but they’re around and have a unique line of ViewMaster products. For the most part it looks like they’re promoting custom runs, makes sense – they’ll even […]
@The NYC Toy fair 2008 I met up with Roylco, they’re a paper die cut company that has tons of art-related products (like self portrait sheets shaped like people, paper of paris) but what caught my eye was their new science line. These real animal and human X-rays are meant to be used on light […]
@The NYC Toy fair 2008 I met with Elenco, they make a series of kits called “Snap circuits” we’ve featured here on MAKE before. Elenco was founded more than 30 years ago by 2 engineers, they make/made test equipment and now they have learning kits for young folks who want to learn about electronics (no […]
