Smart toys definition
Smart toys as used in this article, means toys with the ability to connect to the internet to gather information and interact with its user. These toys fall under a broader category of “intelligent” or “smart” devices designed to self-configure and connect to the existing Internet, using a wireless network such as Wi-Fi or Bluetooth technology. Collectively, these smart devices form a new ecosystem referred to as the Internet of Things (“IoT”).58 The IoT is a rapidly growing “network of physical devices (or ‘things’)” which are capable of sensing and collecting data about their environment, and transmit that data via the Internet to an online system, such as a cloud.59 The IoT allows smart devices to easily communicate and exchange data with each other or other external systems and receive commands from external sources by downloading and executing small applications, also known as apps.60