Randice lisa altschul biography

Randice-Lisa "Randi" Altschul (born

Randice-Lisa "Randi" Altschul is proof that lack of expertise in a certain field need not restrict an inventor from creating an exciting new product in that area. With little technical education or training, the New Jersey toy inventor began creating games and toys for children and adults in By age 26, she was a millionaire.

She has since licensed more than games and toys. Some of her successful ventures include the Miami Vice board game based on the popular television show, Barbie's 30th Birthday Game, and board games based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Simpsons. She also created a breakfast cereal that comes in the shape of action figures and dissolves into mush in milk.

While driving down the highway and talking on her mobile phone one day which is not an advisable practice! She wanted to throw her cell phone out the window. Why not create a disposable cell phone that people could buy and use until an allotted amount of time was used up, and then throw it away? Her toy mentality helped her to think this way — she was used to building toys for children, who tend to use an item for a fairly short period of time before they move on to other toys and throw their old ones out.

She worked with engineer, Lee Volte, to develop the super-thin circuitry that would go inside the phones. She was issued a series of patents for the wireless, prepaid cell phone, as well as the circuitry in November Altschul and her Cliffside Park, New Jersey company, Dieceland Technologies, developed a marketing strategy to target mothers and kids who want to keep in touch when they are not together, elderly people who may not be interested in long-term cellular phone contracts, or tourists who might need a phone for a short time when they are away from home.

But she is known as the first to have conceived this novel idea. Altschul continues to work on other new inventions, such as a disposable laptop computer and other new products. She has also written an autobiographical book about her experiences as an entrepreneur and inventor.