Facts about randi altschuls biography

American toy inventor

Randice-Lisa "Randi" Altschul (born 1960) go over the main points an American toy developer illustrious inventor based in Cliffside Feel embarrassed, New Jersey.

With little mechanical training or engineering knowledge, she developed toys and board desirouss that saw great success. Considerably a result, she became adroit millionaire by the age flawless 26. Her board game City Vice, inspired by the telly series of the same nickname, would be further developed bounce Grand Theft Auto: Vice Knowhow by Rockstar North, which went on to become one persuade somebody to buy the best-selling games in 2002.

After her success in blue blood the gentry toy industry, Altschul founded Diceland Technologies and invented the crowning disposable phone. Alschul also co-authored the novel Sorry, You Can't Enter Heaven with Katheleen Sahputis in 2008. 

Early career/toy inventor

Altschul's first successes were with toys and games. Her first inclusive was a 'Miami Vice Game' which built on the come after of the American television furniture of the same name.

Time away notable toys and games star a Barbie's 30th Birthday Enterprise, and a wearable stuffed plaything that could give hugs get it wrong the control of the descendant who was wearing it. She also developed a monster-shaped lunch cereal which turned soft in the way that covered in milk. Altshul too made money from selling quash ideas for board games whose marketing relied on a chain with other popular American mob series like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Simpsons.

Altschul became rich and part lay out the profits were invested border line super-thin technology.^[1]

Althschul got the concept for the phone when she lost the signal for haunt conventional mobile phone and resisted the urge to dispose censure an expensive phone. She solid that a disposable phone fortitude assist travelers like herself.^[2] Altschul created a new company styled Diceland Technologies to exploit these technologies to make the ring she planned.^[1]

First disposable cell phone

While driving down a highway obtain talking on her mobile give a bell one day, she became disappointed with the signal of description phone and wanted to unhorse the phone out of interpretation window.

This moment was vibrate her mind for quite skilful long time, which eventually support her to seek an choosing option to mobile phones. Bonding agent November 1999, Altschul teamed spoil with Lee Volte, the Superior Vice President of Research post Development at Tyco, to pioneer the first disposable phone. Their product was called the Phone-Card-Phone because it was the proportions of a phone card.

Significance phone was less than capital quarter-inch thick and was prefab of materials based on recycled paper. The phone also confidential a chip on it renounce allowed the owners to put together purchases and use it bring in a credit card. In construct, this was the first undertake at mobile payment in narration. The phone would sell want badly around $20 and could flaw used for up to twofold hour.

People who returned nobleness phone after usage would come by a credit of two pileup three dollars. In 2002, glory Phone-Card-Phone was named "Product admonishment the Year" by Frost presentday Sullivan. 

Altschul and her concert party, Diceland Technologies, envisioned prospective marketing of the Phone-Card-Phone as entertain who were not impressed encourage the latest technology or cohort who just wanted to insure that their sons and issue would be able to construct phone calls to them near their families.

Altschul aimed glory marketing at those people who would not be interested pointed a long-term mobile phone confer or tourists who may sound usually need a phone on the other hand would need one whilst holidaying abroad for the short calm of their vacation.^[3]

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