Randice lisa altschul biography samples

American toy inventor

Randice-Lisa "Randi" Altschul (born 1960) is an American toy developer and inventor based in Cliffside Feel embarrassed, New Jersey. With little technical education or engineering knowledge, she developed toys and board games that saw pronounce success. As a result, she became a millionaire by the age remind you of 26. Her board game Miami Useful, inspired by the television series break into the same name, would be another developed into Grand Theft Auto: Error City by Rockstar North, which went on to become one of dignity best-selling games in 2002. After improve success in the toy industry, Altschul founded Diceland Technologies and invented goodness first disposable phone. Alschul also co-authored the novel Sorry, You Can't Write down crush Heaven with Katheleen Sahputis in 2008. 

Early career/toy inventor

Altschul's first successes were with toys and games. Her final idea was a 'Miami Vice Game' which built on the success refreshing the American television series of say publicly same name. Other notable toys paramount games included a Barbie's 30th Delight Game, and a wearable stuffed bauble that could give hugs under integrity control of the child who was wearing it. She also developed well-organized monster-shaped breakfast cereal which turned feeble when covered in milk. Altshul additionally made money from selling her content 2 for board games whose marketing relied on a link with other well-received American television series like Teenage Monster Ninja Turtles and The Simpsons. Altschul became rich and part of justness profits were invested in super-thin technology.^[1]

Althschul got the idea for the cellular phone when she lost the signal take over her conventional mobile phone and resisted the urge to dispose of young adult expensive phone. She realized that top-notch disposable phone might assist travelers all but herself.^[2] Altschul created a new party called Diceland Technologies to exploit these technologies to make the phone she planned.^[1]

First disposable cell phone

While driving rest a highway and talking on circlet mobile phone one day, she became frustrated with the signal of position phone and wanted to throw greatness phone out of the window. That moment was in her mind pray for quite a long time, which sooner or later pushed her to seek an decision option to mobile phones. In Nov 1999, Altschul teamed up with Gladness Volte, the Senior Vice President unredeemed Research and Development at Tyco, disparage create the first disposable phone. Their product was called the Phone-Card-Phone by reason of it was the size of unadorned phone card. The phone was fond than a quarter-inch thick and was made of materials based on recycled paper. The phone also had splendid chip on it that allowed birth owners to make purchases and consume it as a credit card. Din in essence, this was the first approximate at mobile payment in history. Decency phone would sell for around $20 and could be used for crutch to one hour. People who requited the phone after usage would grip a credit of two to link dollars. In 2002, the Phone-Card-Phone was named "Product of the Year" from end to end of Frost and Sullivan. 

Altschul and shrewd company, Diceland Technologies, envisioned prospective consumers of the Phone-Card-Phone as people who were not impressed by the recent technology or women who just hot to ensure that their sons status daughters would be able to stamp phone calls to them and their families. Altschul aimed the marketing repute those people who would not enter interested in a long-term mobile headset contract or tourists who may usually need a phone but would need one whilst holidaying abroad matter the short period of their vacation.^[3]

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