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Tech Beat: Toys light up the holiday season
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Heading into 2012’s holiday season, even old-school toys are adding lights.
While it doesn't get much more traditional than a bike, for about $20, there's the Fuze Wheel Writer which turns a bike wheel into rolling artwork.
"Works on any bike 20-inches and larger. You pop it in your bike spokes and then as you ride pictures magically appear in your bike wheel, it has 12 different pictures that scroll through," John Ardell with Skyrocket Toys said.
Traditional building blocks are also starting to illuminate. LiteBrix come in sets you snap together to make super-bright vehicles or buildings. But those lit up elements are designed to also fit in with other sets you already own, to breathe some new life -- or in this case light -- into say, an old Lego creation you have lying around.
"Each set comes with a power pack so you have a power pack you can actually build on your power pack. You can also snap on our bricks which are basic bricks which are compatible with any other system," Larry Rosen of Cra-Z-Art said.
LiteBrix sets range from $20 to around $100.
And finally, you know Crayola from its crayons and markers but now the company is allowing kids to draw and color with light.
Called the Crayola Digital Light Designer it allows kids -- through a pen -- to manipulate, and "draw with" 96 colored LEDs inside a cone.
"Kids are able to draw digitally and get a pixelated effect and then put all their drawings to motion through special effects like color change, rotation, three panel animation,” Karen Waters of Crayola said.
The cost, for any bright young artists out there who may be interested, is around $50.