Apple to Change How Your Kids Play

A growing number of companies are pairing Apple and Android apps with physical objects including board games, guns, radio-control vehicles and trading cards to create "augmented reality" activities. Here are some of the best app-object combinations from this week's annual Toy Fair.

By: Stewart Wolpin

February 14, 2012

Apple To Change Toys: Bicycle Jacked Up!

Source: Stewart Wolpin

Sure you could just pull out a normal deck of 51 cards (old decks always seem to have one card missing) to play War or Solitaire of Hearts. Or you can spice up these pedantic pasteboard pastimes with a Bicycle iPhone/iPad app. A QR code on these special Bicycle-brand cards ($6 each, April) activates the app, and special cards in each deck printed with a QR code are held up to the phone to introduce new game-play wrinkles or rule changes.

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