Toy Insider’s Chief Toy Officer Laurie Schacht joined NBC’s Early Today to show off some top picks from the Toy Insider’s annual STEM 10 toys list. For more on the items featured in this segment, check out the product notes below, and for the complete rundown of the best gifts of the holiday season, check out our complete Toy Insider Holiday Gift Guide.
VR DINOSAURS, OCEANS, & ANIMALS GIFT SETS
Kids can learn about oceans, animals, or dinosaurs with three separate gift sets. Each set comes with an interactive book from DK publishing, virtual reality goggles for educational experiences, and scratch art or fossil activities.
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PYXEL A CODER’S BEST FRIEND
Kids can use a tablet to code Pyxel to perform tricks, make sounds, and more. Pyxel and its companion app will help kids learn the basics of two coding languages: Blockly and Python.
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KAI: THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ROBOT
Kids can build an app-enabled robot that can react to gestures and sounds, and program its face display to show expressions and scrolling messages. The robot can walk on six legs and rotate its upper body 360 degrees. 10+
