 kids and letting them play with toys but we've got a lot of time with screen time but some companies are doing some interesting things to try to combine real-life toys with technology. I'm here with Jessica Lane of Pi Technologies that's PAI Technologies and I think she's going to let me play with some clay. Absolutely well what we're finding is the importance of not skipping the stage of playtime with kids so we've got traditional elements of play which is creation using your hands getting creative and building things then going into traditional story time and learning morals and values through books and also puzzle-solving skills so they're traditional play techniques that we're finding let's not skip over that let's incorporate that into then adding the screen time to it so go ahead and make me a fish. Alright so Jessica you're going to describe what I'm doing because this is audio as well and she's going to hold the mic for us here while I play. Yes okay so Alison's choosing a beautiful blue color to go ahead and create her fish now I will give you one little tip we do need to have this as the front but doing your base it's easy to turn it over so you get a nice flat front to it. So we've got a piece of plastic here that I'm shoving my my clay into so I'm going to I'm going to start by making my basic shape here then I peel it oh look it's a pretty looking fish and I think I'm going to need some orange eyeballs maybe what do you think that's gonna look good? I think that's gonna look beautiful and also to let you know that these are all safe products and peace of mind for parents knowing that their kids if they do decide to be children and eat the putty they're going to be okay of non-toxic. Of course they will. Now the one thing I asked Jessica about while when we were talking before was or the other woman I asked about this was do you also sell a disinfectant product that cleans your screen after they've been playing with clay and then and then touch the iPad? Well now that you're playing with it let me know if you feel any sticky residue on your fingers. That's a good point this is not sticky at all this feels really clean yeah I'm glad you pointed that out because I was it doesn't feel like clay or silly putty it feels completely different. Okay so now I've got a beautiful fish it's blue it's got green stripes and orange eyeballs what do I do now? You do so now I think the next stage is would you like to see your fish come to life? I would love to see my fish come to life so she tapped play on ocean pets on the iPad and she tapped a little fish and she's just that's the oh it's the number four shape that she chose from here and now am I gonna pull this up yeah now we're gonna put this on front of the camera oh look she's scanning it from the back camera and it just got it oh I've got stars and stuff going out here oh my gosh look it's my fish all right it's and she's named it oh my gosh here we go and now oh my gosh my fish is swimming around with other fish so we can touch it the Indian Ocean is the third largest ocean so I'm learning already that's right and it's important to feed your fish as well oh she just dropped some food in can we make it swim around oh he just got bigger bigger oh my gosh she I'm sorry of course she did breathing from your nose when swimming don't do that good swim around we've got more we've got goggles we can put on we've got learning lessons here oh this is so interesting so it's getting the kid engaged in there because they've done the real-life play that's right and how about would you like a little more interaction with your fish oh no now it's got on screen we're on screen with the fish so we've got AR here we've got my little fishy is swimming across I think she's just gone up my nose so that's nice looking right at me and also we can turn it around so let's say that I'm sorry perhaps you've also had your child create a mural of some kind maybe they made an aquarium and they can put that behind there and make that more interactive experience so she's using the back facing camera now so that's that would be the background where you would have the the mural we're swimming with a dog that's nice but again you can this is so open-ended you can be as creative in the initial lead up to the process before even introducing the screen as you want and then as technology should be it enhances the experience well that's fantastic so the this particular game was called ocean pets ocean pets and you have other things we can do is can we oh it looks like we might be able to sneak down the aisle there see we're maneuvering here go down okay so again story time is very important and again using the technology to bring that story to life we have this amazing adventure of TJ and TJ is going to have a lot of different adventures here and counting an ogre and also down to having to then chop down the beanstalk here so we're looking at a book where where he's got the ogre and he's got a got a chop down the beanstalk and so perhaps in the evening before bedtime you just read it as a traditional story but then during the day when you're wanting to do more stimulus little more stimulation we scan that in there oh my gosh she just she just held the book they held the scanner over the iPad over the book and we just saw the beanstalk just grow up into 3d space here and then as the story is telling me to do we can chop that stalk on down she just she just chopped it down oh that is so cool and there's a real background behind us to yes and again so parents or brothers sisters even friends can come in the back and be incorporated in there as well even down to as a fun fun interaction here with an ogre the ogre is your favorite huh the ogre is definitely my favorite you're just playing here I am I am I can't believe they're paying me to do this well the ogre is about to walk in that's a scary looking ogre on the iPad and these are also going to be released in a variety of different languages and we'll also give voice prompts and and audio prompts as well and she moves this up and down it looks like it's rotating within so it's a 3d space that we can go 360 with this as well so is he gonna listen to yes there we go his listen to me now no more fighting this is really really interesting I like I like the interaction of the two and this one is pretty amazing so again these days kids don't have as much longevity or focus perhaps because there's a lot of stimulation around so something like the Rubik's Cube where you're not going to get an instant gratification no you're not not based on how long it took me to solve it is we want it we want the Rubik's Cube to live so we've now created this app where you can go in you'll go through the process we've mixed it up and this can take a second but I'll go through and we go through and scan the middle color so she's holding the Rubik's Cube up to the to the back and the back camera and she's scanning the middle of each cube side how do you keep track of which one you're scanning oh I see I was telling you which one to show next I see I was confused because you you held it over red and it showed blue I was like no it's red okay so it's finding the orientation of each of those and now it's telling me exactly which way to hold the cube so yellow on top blue and then red this would be for slightly older kids five plus okay and then it will go through step by step how to tell you how to turn each side and it's starting to solve the puzzle solve it so if I went through it's telling me there's 31 steps currently to go through and if I went through that I would complete it it would be amazing I'd get that sense of completion but then the curiosity would be sparked and I'll go but how did I actually do this how can I do this without looking at the screen so perhaps after a few goes I then go into our learning center and it will go through the actual puzzles pathways and algorithms to learn to do oh wow this is really really interesting so are any of these products on the market yet today yes they are so the company actually started in Shanghai two years ago they are now based in Santa Monica that's their headquarters in in America and the cube tastic is available on Amazon right now and also the ocean pets are available on Amazon I might just get those ocean pets for me that was really really fun what's the price point on the the cube tastic is 1499 and the ocean pets is 2999 no way I am totally getting that I'm just gonna sit there make fish I really love that well thank you very much for your time very well I'm just good thank you and now we're gonna tell you this is actually shy Yamanese wife Jessica Lane hi we're really excited to have her here I mean shy shy shy has you know his requirements and obviously I needed to understand a little bit of technology in order to to be in his life to fit in here all right great thank you thank you just you're welcome