Fran Rabuck, Futurist Is it a just a toy or is it serious technology?

1. Toys for Techies
Fran Rabuck – Futurist
Rabuck Associates
11/11/2015

2. Toys for Techies – 2015
9th Annual Event (A Special UK Preview)
Not to be confused with Toys for Tots,
No need to shop-til-you drop,
Including the Trends and History of Toys,
Batteries – get electric,
Lots of assembly required,
And a other trends in our industry.
Tech is always IN
Tweet along with me now.
Email me with questions:frabuck@att.net
@frabuck

3. Back To The Future (BTTF) – Doc Brown’s Brain Idea Hat
Stolen from ME!

4. Back to The Future – Books and History for Fans

5. Adobe Predicts Online Holiday Sales to Hit Record $83B, Cyber Monday -
$3B
Adobe Predicts Online Holiday Sales
To Hit Record $83B, Cyber Monday
To Generate $3B After last year’s
record-breaking holiday season,
Adobe predicts 2015 will grow.
Adobe says online shoppers will
have the best chance of finding
discounts this holiday season via
display ads and social media. Search
will be the least effective channel

6. AR for Kids in Crayola Coloring Books (DAQRI)

7. Dear Santa,
I need your help. I always listen to
your annual toys 4 techies and
find your ideas helpful.
None of my friends are talking to
me now, because I’m always so
smart and listen to your annual
broadcast, and most of the time to
my mom and dad.
I’m a talkative type of person, any
ideas on how I can get everyone
talking to me again.
Thanks,
Little Stewy

8. Talking Toys – Some History- Back to 1985 - WoW

9. Hacking Teddy - 2015
http://arstechnica.com/information-
technology/2013/07/bearduino-hacking-
teddy-ruxpin-with-arduino/

10. Watson – and the Talking Dino – 2015. Cognitoys

11. Talking Barbie is Real – 2015 and available now!
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/playing-talking-barbie/story?id=33806499

12. Smart Toys
Extend Voice and Image Recognition Technology

13. Is this a Social Problem of the Future?

14. Bladebuilder Jedi Master Lightsabre by Hasbro

15. Command Shuttle by Lego

16. National Toy Hall of Fame (www.museumofplay.org)
Question: Was a Star Wars Toy ever inducted into the Toy
Hall of Fame?

17. Yes, Star Wars Action Figures -

18. National Toy Hall of Fame

19. National Toy Hall of Fame – 2015 Inductees
1.Twister
2.Puppets
3.Supersoaker

20. Silly Putty -2015 – Goes Magnetic

21. ViewMaster - 2015 – Updated for VR/360 Experience

22. VTech Toot Toot Friends Busy Sounds Discovery House

24. Rocket Skates Take off in 2015

25. OZOBOT – The Pocket Robot
Best Bot of the Year – Returns as 2.0
OZOBOT – BIT. Now Programmable

26. MOFF – The Imagination Machine for Your Ears

27. Wow-Wee R.E.V. Race Cars

29. If you’re bored with your Hot Wheels cars…
You might want a $95,000 limited edition Mustang

30. If your Beer Holster & beer doesn’t wet your whistle…
Stitzel-Weller Distillery in
Lexington, Kentucky.
Orphan Barrel Project is to
unearth previously
undiscovered bottles of
bourbon and release them
to the public.
A tour of the distillery, a
bourbon barrel hunt and
tasting, plus 24 bottles of
eight different kinds of
Orphan Barrel bourbons.
…and a hand-crafted
whiskey cabinet and a
leather-bound book that
describes your collection.
All for $125,000

31. If you’re kids are bored with that crappy, old blanket for
a cape and trash can shield…
They might want his and hers costume trunks at $5,000 each.

32. If you’re bored with exploring the
Space in your backyard on the
weekends …
You will love this 2-for. In 2016, go
behind the scenes of a test flight with
World Views, a company that is
planning balloon rides to nearspace,
more than 100,000 feet above the
Earth's surface.
In 2017, you'll get to take a ride in the
luxury pressurized balloon, hundreds
of thousands of feet off the ground.
For the low, low price of $90,000

33. Time to Get Serious About Our Health
• FitBits that bite, Watches you don’t watch,
Heart rate that don’t rate…
BUT now there’s BodiMetrics…

34. A Personal Perspective on Toys and Children

35. Just a Preview Here Today, Stay Tuned For More…
• Top 100 Toys from Dr. Toy
• Worst Toys of the Year
• Yummy things
• Wearables
• Cameras
• Drones for Fun
• Video Games and New
Platforms
• Books
• And so much more fun
things with toys and facts
• And Next Year Will Be a
th

36. Thank You…
What’s your favorite Toy?
Email: frabuck@att.net
Twitter: @frabuck
(FIATECH, Target, Ozobot, Tiggly, SoHa, Graham, and many others)