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Hottest Tech Toys of 2023: You Must See These Toys!

Bridget Carey looks at some of 2023’s best toys and big trends to show how tech influences and evolves playtime — beyond the cute robot pets. Magic Whispers: Aarons Thinking Putty: Bumpas: Furby: Tamagotchi Original: Tamagotchi Uni: Dog-E: Fingerlings: Bao Bby Fresh Beats Doll: Playmobil Wiltopia: Wild Republic Ecokins: if you need the exact one:…

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Bridget Carey looks at some of 2023’s best toys and big trends to show how tech influences and evolves playtime — beyond the cute robot pets.

Magic Whispers:
Aarons Thinking Putty:
Bumpas:
Furby:
Tamagotchi Original:
Tamagotchi Uni:
Dog-E:
Fingerlings:
Bao Bby Fresh Beats Doll:
Playmobil Wiltopia:
Wild Republic Ecokins:
if you need the exact one:
Playfoam Naturals:
Tonies Starter Set:
CloudBox:
Faction Skyfire Target Drone:
TeeTurtle Axolotl Plushie Bag:
Snoozimals:
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  1. Miguel Garcia

    November 21, 2023 at 8:22 am

    I usually like your suggestions, but this time it was very girls toys oriented. How about toys for boys or outdoorsy.

    • goldenboyx92

      November 21, 2023 at 8:34 am

      She did a whole transformers toy line. I’d recommend to watch all her toy trends videos

    • Bridget Carey

      November 21, 2023 at 9:29 am

      The most wild toy for boys this year is going to be Beast Lab by Moose Toys. A monster shark action figure comes out of a giant lab of goo and smoke — it’s one of those reveal-your-toy events. On the cheap side I also like Flat2Fast Card Racers — they are flat and you pop a button and they zoom off into car shapes. And for outside tech check out Zing’s flying RC toys like the Zing RC Deluxe Banshee or ZipString — those are good for either girls or boys.

  2. Cody Eason

    November 21, 2023 at 8:27 am

    That monkey looks just like those toy monkeys we got for our fingers

  3. Sinister Puppy

    November 21, 2023 at 8:38 am

    Neat to see how tech’s evolving toys. Good thing I’m a Toys R Us kid; I never grew up. 🙂

  4. Cody Eason

    November 21, 2023 at 8:46 am

    This was cool would like to see some more tech based toys like that dolls hair. This was neat though maybe a book as well some sort of book for kids

  5. Daniel Cook

    November 21, 2023 at 8:57 am

    Oh my she didn’t there at the end with the question piece 😂

  6. Andy Lin

    November 21, 2023 at 9:30 am

    very nice and kul toys you’ve got.

  7. s

    November 21, 2023 at 9:33 am

    and where are the links for all of the toys?

    • CNET

      November 21, 2023 at 1:01 pm

      In the description.

  8. dhirender sahani

    November 21, 2023 at 9:59 am

    So nice toys 🧸

  9. Colton Piper

    November 21, 2023 at 10:01 am

    Fun stuff!!

  10. keon

    November 21, 2023 at 10:13 am

    Maybe kids need more books instead of toys Maybe exercise more. Be outside in sunlight…

    • Mauricio de León

      November 21, 2023 at 10:56 am

      Id love to see Cnet reviewing the sun.

    • Joán Marquina

      November 21, 2023 at 11:16 am

      Ok, so this channel is intended to offer you workouts for your children or life tips? Don’t mess with Bridget! 😡

    • keon

      November 21, 2023 at 11:27 am

      @Joán Marquina Bridget is not being messed with. She did a great job reviewing these toys. There are just too many toys, too many kids not learning how to read. Too much materialistic habits developing. I can literally turn my head and see my son reading a book right now. It makes me proud that this 3 year old is reading. Oh my boy I should take his book and get him a plastic toy. Your right random person in the YouTube comments. I’ll do better. I’ll work on myself.

    • Joán Marquina

      November 21, 2023 at 11:37 am

      @keon got you, the point is that here you won’t get book recommendations or life tips like I said. Anyways, thanks for sharing your thoughts. Have a nice day. 😊

    • Bridget Carey

      November 21, 2023 at 12:51 pm

      @keon3155 I got something for you to help encourage kids to read — but it ties into the Amazon Echo speakers. It’s called Readyland, it’s bundled right now on sale with the Echo Kids Dot speaker, and it’s a physical book for kids with an audio track that plays along as an Alexa skill. My kids enjoyed it, I wrote about it on CNET. In one story you read about an Owl and a Dragon having an adventure but you also shout out loud what you want the characters to do next, and it tells you when to turn the page, so it’s interactive and you can get a different result each time.

  11. Caden Churchill

    November 21, 2023 at 11:04 am

    I loved axolotls BEFORE they were cool 😁

  12. MetaMind09

    November 21, 2023 at 11:05 am

    tbh I thought we would be way further tech-wise when it comes to kid toys etc. heck the new furby doesnt even have an animated mouth and only 5 modes/options? All of what I ve seen here still is 90s tech imo

    • Bridget Carey

      November 21, 2023 at 12:45 pm

      Well inflation makes it a weird spot for a toymaker — these companies are trying to walk this line of using tech but not making it too expensive — hence why you may see more smaller $15-$20 toys pushed this year. With tech in Furby, it’s more about adding a lot of audio content (which is pretty cute and funny and doesn’t repeat much), plus it being able to understand a few spoken phrases because kids are used to now talking to their parents smart speakers.

    • MetaMind09

      November 21, 2023 at 2:27 pm

      Hi Bridget, thank you for responding. I just fondly remember my toys back in the days like: “toymax – laser challenge” (lasergun with detector you wear at your chest) or “Shout ‘n’ Shoot 2” from captoys (a futuristic supersoaker headset you wear with an electronic waterpump added that fires when shout “fire” into the inbuild microphone) or the “Gamester Evolution – Motion Sensitive Control System” (a motion-sensing controller very similair from its functionality to the wii-remote but released 7 years before the actual Wii launch. These toys back then really blewed my mind and they werent that expensive either. Anway Bridget youre awesome, thanks for keeping us up-to-date.

  13. Ashely Meshell

    November 21, 2023 at 11:45 am

    You’ve earned a permanent subscriber.

  14. Jeffrey Weinstein

    November 21, 2023 at 1:04 pm

    I made my own nanny cam out of sand.

  15. Ahmad Eido

    November 21, 2023 at 1:11 pm

    Omg this was so great! I want all these toys

  16. Tsar Hare

    November 21, 2023 at 3:19 pm

    no fire arm toys, no nerfing it, not a good look

  17. Rob de la Hunty

    November 21, 2023 at 4:39 pm

    Oh ya Big baby…….lolol

  18. Rob de la Hunty

    November 21, 2023 at 4:43 pm

    That brown cork stuff surely has to be a choking hazard IMHO

  19. Andrew Corum

    November 21, 2023 at 5:33 pm

    I truly like your show. Not many people can make me laugh through YouTube. I lost it with the axolotl. #❤U

  20. wisanu99

    November 21, 2023 at 5:46 pm

    Your older daughter looks like you. Her eyes are like yours. Your younger one probably looks more like your husband.

  21. Milton Brady

    November 21, 2023 at 6:58 pm

    very funny

  22. Chris Hynes

    November 21, 2023 at 8:27 pm

    I still have an original furby that hasn’t been touched since touched since I got it lol I wonder if they’re ever gonna be worth anything

  23. GenreOnlinenet

    November 22, 2023 at 1:23 am

    Beautiful kids Bridget. You’re blessed. Happy Thanksgiving.

  24. Consure

    November 22, 2023 at 1:59 am

    Love your look in this video OMG. Haha! Your kids are so cute. Thanks for the tech toy tips here!

  25. Felix Five

    November 22, 2023 at 3:56 am

    I prefer my real dog.

  26. Kakki82 -Roddy M

    November 22, 2023 at 8:37 am

    OMG Cute toys, cute kids and cute Care Bears shirt, Bridget. Cute episode. I have got to get some of these for my nieces and nephews. Btw you seem like an awesome mom!

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