Toy Fair 2015 features high-tech diversions for kids

NEW YORK -- With 13,000 international buyers and the equivalent of seven football fields full of exhibitor booths, Toy Fair 2015 looks and sounds like the best-behaved children's party ever. Without the young ones in attendance, of course.

Because this party is serious business. Buyers come to see new products and place orders for stores, family restaurants and schools around the globe.

Here's a look at some of the top trends this year:

This photo shows SnapPets, whose cameras send photos wirelessly to an app via Bluetooth and also can work as a remote for a camera phone. Selfies can be taken by pressing on one of the little ears. (WowWee)

• High-tech toys on display included wireless remote-control vehicles, teach-and-play tablets, mini cameras and speakers, 3D-printed toys, and building and shooting games equipped with lasers and apps.
• Bluetooth technology has been a boon to toy makers. Slap on a bracelet by Moff that's synced to an app and shoot your arm around to make sounds like animals, vehicles or musical instruments.
• Sync Snap Pets --cute, keychain-size, animal-shaped cameras -- to your phone to capture selfies or group photos.
• Tiggly showed several tablet apps for preschoolers that include plastic shapes, numbers and letters that can be tapped on the screen.
• Lego's Fusion won the award for e-connected toy of the year from the Toy Industry Association. You begin constructing a town, scan your building facades onto a device, and then interact with your avatar and the virtual townsfolk as they finish your projects.
• Spin Master's Zoomer Dino won the overall toy of the year award at the fair. You can train the remote-controlled dinosaur to follow you, dance, chase and roar. He rolls along on two ball-like legs using proprietary balance technology.
• Sphero had a little rolling toy called Ollie, equipped with rubber tires and hubcaps. Controlled via iPad, Ollie can race outdoors on sidewalks, ramps or more rugged terrain, or whiz and whirl indoors.
• Ozobot can perform color-coded commands: Draw a few lines on a piece of paper in different colors, and program your bot to execute the moves.
• Drone-type toys were also plentiful, with action-film names like Sky Viper, Nebula Cruiser and Quad Zone.