International Toy Fair in New York showcases products claiming AI and tech innovations

(4 Mar 2025)
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New York – 3 March 2025
1. Tight of Snorble toy, UPSOUND (English) "What’s the name of this color?"
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ed Gershowitz, EVP of Snorble:
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"Snorble is an award-winning, AI-powered children’s development system."
3. Snorble toy
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ed Gershowitz, EVP of Snorble:
"You engage with Snorble by just saying, ‘Hey, Snorble,’ and then you go into the different routines that you want."
5. Push of Snorble toy
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ed Gershowitz, EVP of Snorble:
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"We have a bedtime routine, so it’s not mom and dad telling the child, ‘You need to go to sleep and you need to stay in your own room,’ this is your friend, your companion."
7. Tight of Snorble toy
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ed Gershowitz, EVP of Snorble:
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"I like to call this a parent-directed, child-activated product. Utilizing the Snorble app, mom and dad can control what routines, what software programs they want their child to actually utilize."
9. Wide of Toy Fair entrance with visitors and security
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ed Gershowitz, EVP of Snorble:
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"The product that’s been out there so far has basically been ChatGPT with Wi-Fi connections and cameras, and there are inherent problems with ChatGPT with products for young kids. Wi-Fi connected product with cameras also add privacy and security issues. We’ve avoided all that. Everything with Snorble is on device."
10. Low wide of Javits center
11. Wide of show floor
12. Walking shot on show floor
13. Tight of Pixicade in operation
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Rad, Pixicade partner:
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"The technology in Pixicade is unlike anything anyone’s ever seen, right? I mean, every time we do a demo, there’s a jaw dropping wow moment that takes place in the consumer and the buyer, be it retail or the end user."
15. Tight of Pixicade and hands
16. Extreme tight of Pixicade in operation
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Rad, Pixicade partner:
"You can draw anything on paper, take a picture of it, and turn it into a playable video game."
18. Drawing alongside Pixicade
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Rad, Pixicade partner:
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"So, in the back-end community you can draw a game, and I could play. Grandma can draw a game, that we can play together. We can go head to head."
20. Detail of drawing
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Rad, Pixicade partner:
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"As adults, as parents, we’re going to give kids AI, right? We’re going to have to try to find a way to give them AI in a way that’s not going to be limiting at the same time, where are the safeguards? This is the era right now of parents and adults learning what is going to be the guardrails that we can impose on, on kids and how much we want to give them creative freedom versus how safe and how protected do we want to keep them."
22. Pixicade in operation
23. Pixicade show pavilion
24. Pixicade product boxes
25. Pixicade show space
STORYLINE:
The International Toy Fair in New York featured thousands of new toys, games, and interactive experiences from around the world, with a few claiming AI-powered innovations.

One highlight was an childrenโ€™s device designed to help with routines while operating entirely without Wi-Fi or cameras.

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