This humanoid robot offers educators, students and robotic hobbyists a complete robot package. The stable Huroi-II can walk, run, and do flips, cartwheels and dance moves. Once programmed, it is ready to compete in any Robo One Class “J” competition. It is available as a kit or a pre-assembled, ready-to-walk instant gratification robot.

This hand-held game lets kids have fun while learning to multiply. Kids can choose from five different pre-programmed games specially designed to teach kids skills that will help them master the art of multiplying. Lighting and sound effects enhance the fun, while the included headphone jack allows the games to be played quietly anywhere.

The Hot Wheels Accelerator laptop is both exciting and educational.  While immersing themselves in a world of racecar driving, kids will engage in math, logic, memory and spelling activities — 30 activities available in English and 30 available in Spanish.  To add to the fun, Hot Wheels racetracks can be mounted to the laptop and kids can test the speed of their cars right on the laptop.  Launch date:  August 2007.

The American Idol Digital Camcorder allows everyone to shoot and edit videos as if they were on the set of American Idol. The American Idol Digital Camcorder has a new flip-out LCD screen, clear 640 x 680 resolution and 32 MB of memory that records six minutes of video when not connected to the PC and unlimited recording when connected to the PC. The camcorder is small enough to carry around conveniently.

A desktop in the form of a Transformer will get any child excited about computers. The computer is initially the head and shoulders of a Transformer; when opened up in the center, a screen emerges and a keyboard pulls down. The computer can quickly and easily be folded back into its original Transformer shape. The computer comes with 48 learning activities, playable in eight different modes.

This highly versatile game allows for many different playing options: Optimus Prime and Megatron can battle, an individual can play alone, or multiple individuals can play in succession and then compare scores.  The game features a double LCD display that keeps score and lights up.  Accompanying Transformers sound effects and music helps to capture the entire Transformers experience.

This mini guitar allows users to jam with digital music devices such as iPods and MP3 players. It features a selection of background rhythms and sounds that can be played on their own or combined with other music. It requires two AAA batteries (included). “The iPod market is very hot right now, [and] what sets us apart from other iPod accessories is that we are a musical instrument line that is small enough to fit in your pocket and perfect for traveling,” Junior Account Executive Jennifer Romer of Bender Hammerling Group told TDmonthly. Launch date: January 2007.

Fulfill your destiny with the Darth Vader Power Laptop. Explore the galaxy with Jedi Masters, Sith Lords, Creatures, Droids and many more. 50 adventurous activities challenge your skills in word, math, spelling, logic, memory, music and games. Once you open your Star Wars Laptop, you can choose different options of play by touching the Light Saber pointer to the specially designed touch sensitive LCD screen. Pick up the interactive Light Saber and join Darth Vader on a secret mission. Qwerty keyboard and easy to read large LCD screen is backlit for low light conditions. This laptop includes over 20 minutes of intergalactic audio learning entertainment. Games designed especially for the 1st and 2nd grade Jedi. Use the carry handle for easy portability. With the Darth Vader Laptop, you can take learning to a whole new galaxy.

Join Barbie® for some learning fun in this super stylish B-Smart™ Learning Laptop. A total of 80 fun-filled activities are all designed especially for the 1st and 2nd grade levels. Reinforce math, spelling, logic, memory, keyboarding skills and sequencing in fun and enjoyable ways with Barbie® as your host. 10 activities in Spanish also help teach language skills.

Dirt, Snow, Rain or Shine…..Capture all the action with the ultimate all-terrain digital video camera! This hands-free, wireless designed camera is both shock resistant and waterproof for use in challenging conditions. Wipeouts in a white-out or an unexpected barrel roll? No worries, the ATC-2K is waterproof up to 10 feet! Designed for skating, BMX, water sports, mountain biking, climbing, skiing, snowboarding, motor sports, paintball and more! This compact camera goes with you, yet stays out of your way, quietly capturing all your best moves. Weighing in at half a pound (with batteries), this hands-free action cam delivers full color digital video in 640 x 480 VGA at 30 frames per second. The ATC-2K works seamlessly with most video editing software and the SD card slot supports card sizes up to 2GB for 60 minutes of full 30 fps VGA resolution. The ATC-2K has a simple three-button design and LCD display control recording start/stop, shooting modes and resolution, date/time, file deletion and microphone. The ATC-2K mounts easily onto helmets, bikes, and a wide range of sports equipment. Package includes: camera, handlebar mount, helmet mount, silicon rubber helmet strap, quick-release clip, short and long hook-and-loop straps, USB cable, AV cable, and rubber adhesive patches, silicon grease for O-rings. The camera operates on only two AA batteries.

This Fender Squier is a Sanrio best-seller.  The 21-fret electronic guitar features a Hello Kitty face pickguard, a pink dot inlay, a hard maple neck, an Agathis wood body, die-cast chrome machine heads, a fixed bridge, and a single Humbucking pickup. The guitar measures 25.5” in scale length and is available in either a pink or black gloss body.

This product tests logic skills with more than 2 million accessible puzzles. It features a puzzle input option that allows players to input any Sudoku puzzle from their favorite newspaper or book and solve it with ease on the Mega Screen. It even provides the answers. Full illumination and an extra-large screen make the game easy to read and ready to play anytime, anywhere. In January 2007, this product was announced as 2006 Best Toy of the Year in the Parent to Parent Adding Wisdom Awards. Launch date: April 2006.

This doll-shaped music player can hold as many as 120 MP3 or 240 WMA-file songs and links up to the Barbie Girls website, a virtual world in which the player acts as a real character. The site gives girls the opportunity to tailor their characters' styles, shop for clothing, decorate their online room and adopt a pet. For safety purposes, the website features information filters and only allows a 2,000-word limited vocabulary.

Tamagotchi Connection is the world’s first and most popular virtual pet toy, and the V4 lets kids “live the Tamagotchi life 24/7.” Children can guide their Tamagotchi characters through life’s daily adventures by playing games, going to school, and choosing a fun career, such as rock star, fashion designer, scientist or doctor. V4 also offers fans the ability to continue visiting the interactive online world of Tamagotchi Town, where kids can shop at the mall and go to school and work. Launch date: January 2007.

This system features three wireless traps connected by radio frequency to form one infallible alarm system. It includes one touch-sensor sound and light alarm, one motion-detecting dual dart launcher, one invisible-beam siren and four foam darts. When trap number one (the sound and light alarm) is triggered, it arms the other two traps. Enemies entering a protected room will not set off any alarms on their way in, but will be bombarded during their attempt to escape. Launch date: Fall 2007.

This electronic version of the popular fortune-telling game often referred to as MASH (Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House) or Cootie Catcher is shaped like a palm-sized make-up compact and opens to reveal a scrolling LCD screen and entry keys. The screen prompts players to select information in nine categories, including desired city of residence, type of housing, species of pet and future profession. There are nine options within each category, plus a bonus feature in the LOVE fortune that allows players to type in the names of current crushes. Once selections are complete, the game automatically eliminates all but one choice in each category. Launch date: July 2007.

VTech’s new portable Whiz Kid Learning System lets kids choose from 40 activity pages, place the page into the Whiz Pad, and it comes to life with more than 120 activities. The Whiz Kid grows with young readers through a series of learning curriculum that meets the user’s skill level. The “Story Bytes” activity, for instance, encourages beginning readers to read along with the story and sound out words.  Kids can also connect the Whiz Pad to their computer to play activities, track their progress or replace lost or damaged activity pages by printing out new ones.  Whiz Kid includes the Wondertown Whizware™ (software) title, which features a focused reading program and activities that help teach counting and encourage creativity.  Older kids can even transform the Whiz Pad into a piano keyboard or typing keyboard. Additional Whizware titles include character favorites such as Bob the Builder, Dora the Explorer, Spider-Man and Friends, Scooby-Doo, and Thomas & Friends (ERP: $19.99 each).  Launch date: Fall 2007.

This wonderful 22-1/2" scale Juba Clownfish guitar with a built-in speaker and volume control knob requires a 9-volt battery.  It also can be plugged into an amplifier (sold separately).  Perfect for children and adults alike, it has 20 frets, a rosewood fretboard and quality tuners.  Goldfish kids’ guitars are twice the quality of toy-store guitars at the same price.  This guitar may also be enjoyed by teens and adults as a travel instrument.

The NS-1200 (Translating Bear) integrates flexible, multilingual (English, Spanish, and French) content with speech recognition technology in a child-friendly design. The language content (vocabulary) programmed into the NS-1200 is aligned with pre-kindergarten and kindergarten curriculum guidelines. Briefly, the product translates spoken words from one language to another, pronounces the translated speech, and shows the correct spelling in both languages. There is no other solution remotely similar to this groundbreaking product.

The NS-1100 (Counting Bear) is an electronic multilingual tool that supports development of math skills and math-related language acquisition by early childhood users. The NS-1100 teaches and reinforces the counting process from 1 to 100. It allows sequential counting, as well as skip counting by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s. The NS-1100 also teaches written and symbolic representation of numbers. The NS-1100 allows users to select English, Spanish, or French as the language for the audio output. .

Computers, cameras, game consoles and USB flash drives have become part of a kid’s life. Now Disney (another part of a kid’s life) has licensed some of their classic (and soon-to-be classic) characters including Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh to digital/computer wiz Buffalo Technology, resulting in the cutest, most cartoonable flash drives ever. Storing 512 MBs per animated character, they can be collected, traded, or just used happily on the desk. According to Morikazu Sano of Buffalo Technology Inc., their “deal with Disney is limited to Japan at the moment.” But this could be in the process of change, according to sources at Disney Marketing.

Eyes jiggle, legs wiggle and antennae sway to-and-fro in the combo tango-jitterbug-Frightened Grasshopper dance. This little kit is an attention-grabber. Pint-sized and powered to pack a punch, this enticing amusing solar bug will capture kids’ hearts while demonstrating an alternative energy principle. No batteries or tools are required, and there are fewer than 10 parts to assemble. This product received a 2007 Seal of Excellence from Creative Child Magazine. Launch date: February 2007.
— For promoting the use of solar energy in a hoppin’ way, this cute, little grasshopper received a TDmonthly Innovations 2007 award. It is simple to assemble and reacts immediately when placed under sunlight, clicking its legs across the ground as it rattles around, shivering with fear.

This product turns any TV into a child’s first computer, featuring a desktop experience that looks and works like a grown-up PC. It delivers a safe, age-appropriate computing experience through engaging games that help children build important preschool and basic computing skills. The system features a cartridge console that plugs into the TV and a working desktop, as well as a child-sized, wireless keyboard and convertible mouse for righties and lefties. Friendly green puppy Scout guides children through leveled-learning activities involving keyboard navigation, mousing, phonics skills, simple math, shapes and more. “The ClickStart system is a welcome tool for parents who want their children to benefit from using a computer, but would rather spare their high-end desktops the task,” Erin Nelson of LeapFrog told TDmonthly. Launch date: Fall 2007.

This toy features touch-screen technology that puts personality quizzes at kids’ fingertips, and can also connect to a computer with its USB drive. Tweens can log onto the Girlz Connect web community to create, share and download their own quizzes. Destiny comes in various colors and can be attached to purses, backpacks or belt loops, or worn around the neck. Cliff Jin of The Rogers Group said the youth electronics category grew 22 percent in 2006, according to NPD Group. “Bandai America is leveraging its success in the category — with the top selling “virtual pet” Tamagotchi Connection — to launch the new Girlz Connect brand,” he added. Launch date: July 2007.

This omni-directional stereo speaker set features “flex and shape” design and is compatible with iPod or other MP3 players. Curvy white tubes lead the two round speakers in opposite directions, and the shape and flexibility can make for a fun listening experience. “The Tangle Tronics speakers' unique shape and flexibility allow them to stand out from all other speakers on the market. [They] allow you to express your own creativity and make your music look as good as it sounds!” Scott Masline, senior vice president of marketing at Tangle Toys, told TDmonthly. Launch date: February 2007.