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New toy patents
December 11, 2007
The New York Times Magazine has an annual issue devoted to the best ideas of the year. The December 9, 2007 issue had an interesting “Endpaper” on “some of the year’s best patents. . . “ (I would normally give the hyperlink but none is available).
Here are the ones I found that fell (at least loosely) under the toy category with a few added comments by me:
- Combined toy bunny and hat (I knew something was missing in my life and this may be it. Frankly I, as I am sure many of you, have long felt the need to have a hat to wear while holding a toy bunny.)
- Battery charger amusement device.
- Heated stuffed animal.
- Pet helmet (I am not sure if this is a helmet for a pet to wear or a helmet in the shape of a pet or a helmet to wear while playing with a hamster or goldfish.)
- Instant snowman (I wonder how big it is?)
- Baseball bat with a window (Isn’t there something innately flawed about this concept?)
- Aquatic-surface-skipping toy device.
- Hula hoop with weights (Is this exercise device or is it designed to just make it much, much harder to keep the hula hoop up?)
- Football warming & drying device.
- Slot machine shaped toaster (this may not technically be a toy but I found it so delightfully insane that I thought I would include it.)
Posted by Richard Gottlieb on December 11, 2007 | Comments (1)
