In 2013, I co-founded a connected toy company called Retoy. We develop technologies that turn low-cost plastic into fully interactive objects.

We've invented everything from NERF basketball hoops that "talk" to iPhones when you score to augmented reality Lazer Tag rifles. Our most successful invention to date is Telepods, the world's lowest cost "toys to life" platform. 

The Telepods platform turns everyday action figures into toys that can be scanned into videogames, Skylanders-style. We partnered with Hasbro and Rovio to produce several lines of Angry Birds-related Telepods, including Angry Birds Star Wars and Angry Birds Transformers.

In only 3 months, Telepods became Hasbro's best-selling 3rd party invention of 2013. And since their release, more than 60 million Angry Birds Telepods have been digitally scanned into mobile videogames.