14 Amazing Toys You'll Want to Keep For Yourself

How do you make the venerable toy car even better? First, make it modular. [Modarri](https://modarri.com/)’s chassis and dope rims are interchangeable, letting kids create their own designs. Second, require some assembly with a little screwdriver. And third, add suspension. Driving these little cars around with your finger in the driver's seat is a blast. [$19 and up](https://modarri.com/).

Imagination is a good thing, but [Wilson’s sensor-packed football](https://www.wired.com/2016/08/wilson-just-made-smartest-football-time/) keeps it in check with a built-in ref. The ball connects to an iOS app via Bluetooth to track throwing speed, distance, and how tight your spiral is. For backyard two-minute drills, it gets even better: Game mode features play-by-play by announcer Gus Johnson, and the sensors are smart enough to gauge completions and dropped passes. [$200](http://www.wilson.com/en-us/explore/football/wx.html).

Osmo has spent a few years finding ways of making an iPad more than just another screen. With a clip-on mirror attachment, the company’s games use the iPad camera and computer vision to help real toys and drawings interact with onscreen objects. In [Coding](https://www.wired.com/2016/05/osmo-turns-blocks-code-teach-kids-programming/), kids snap together blocks to make a digital monster perform actions. It’s a first crack at programming for the Kindergarten set. [$49, plus $79 for the Osmo Starter Kit](https://www.playosmo.com/en/shopping/).

Think of [Cubetto](https://www.primotoys.com/) as Osmo Coding without the iPad. Children as young as 3 can program a little wooden box of a robot using tiles that correspond to simple actions. To make the bot roll forward, turn left, and turn right, kids place the corresponding colored block in the wooden control board, press a button, and watch it scoot along. They’ll be running NASA in no time. [$225](https://www.primotoys.com/shop/).