After Pocket-lint's visit to the Toy Fair in London, the team sat down and mulled over the toys that they saw, and the one thing they all agreed on was that 2011 is going to be a cracking year for kids' gadgets, gizmos and playthings. In fact, so much...

Casdon, the company that specialises in making toys that are replicas of real life objects, is bringing shopping toys bang up to date with its Self-Service checkout.

The electronic checkout till will come with a light sensor, vocal prompts...

Lego has teamed up with NASA to release new space inspired Lego sets to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Space Shuttle.

Launched as apart of the company's Lego City brand, the “hero” set of the new range will be the Lego City...

After a meagre outing last time around, Wild Planet and WowWee's Electronic Test Tube Aliens are back, and this time they're even more evil. They want to enslave the human race, and kids are encouraged to interrogate them to find out the details of...

WowWee's Paper Jamz range of toy guitars were a major success in the back end of 2010. Not too expensive, they allowed wannabe rockstars the chance to strum along to some choons, without the need for the intricate gamer skillset or console equipment...

Playmobil is looking to shed its toddler roots with a new range aimed at 8- to 11-year-olds called Secret Agent. 

The range will feature a host of new toys complete with backstory for your children to get into - a new direction for the company.

With...

Bop-It is back and this time with a new feature for the new year, says Hasbro at this year’s Toy Fair in London, and Pocket-lint were on hand to have a go.

In, is a new “shake” feature, out is the need to “shout”...

There’s nothing like a great white shark munching its way toward you to speed up your game play, and that’s the hope of Hasbro with a new board game called Shark Attack.

So what do you have to do? Well roll some dice and then get...

While it may be unassuming and requires LeapFrog's Leapster Explorer handheld gaming/educational device to actually work, it's amazing just how much the tiny Camera & Video Recorder add-on actually, ahem, adds on.

No bigger than one of the...

What do you get if you combine robotics with I'm a Celebrity Get me out of Here? Well, apart from livelier hosts than Ant and Dec, Innovation First makes a good stab at recreating the experience of glaring in the eyes of a cockroach, without the smell...

Bossa Nova Robotics is continuing its push into robots in 2011 with a range of robots called Mechatars.

Following on from the company’s robot division’s previous attempt Prime-8, the new Mechatars, that incidentally go by names...

The makers of the Rubik’s Cube have brought out a two-player version called Rubik’s Race that sees you battle against another player in an attempt to solve a variation of the classic cube puzzler.

The game works by one player shaking...

Hornby, maker of both Scalextric and its eponymous toy train line, has signed up with the London 2012 Olympics for a range of officially-licensed products in stores now and coming over the next few months.

Firstly, the company has created a...

Lego is releasing a third batch of minifigs, as it continues to bring out new characters for kids of all ages to collect.

The new collection will include another 16 minifigures and feature gems such as a fisherman complete with fish and fishing...

Want a Microsoft Kinect and Xbox 360, but struggling to come up with the cash to be able to buy one? No worries, says the company that is putting a much cheaper Kinect clone on the market later this year. 

Last year it was a Sega console follow-up...