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Holiday shoppers looking for high-tech gifts may find an interesting trend developing this year, as new toys and gadgets are using technology to enhance everyday activities.

For example, the Lego game "The Life Of George" has players build as they normally would with the little plastic bricks. But to fully take advantage of the kit, players have to use an iPhone or iPod Touch as well for what Lego is calling its first fully integrated digital to physical gaming experience.

"It's a race against time. You get a 2-D image. You get to replicate, you put it on your playmat here," says Fiona Chan of Lego. "Once you've completed it, there's brick recognition software integrated into the app. So you can take a picture of it in order to determine its accuracy and based on your speed, you get a score."

The "Life Of George" kit is $30 and the app that goes with it is free.

Now, one doesn't usually think of technology when one thinks of a ball like a baseball or basketball. Sphero, though, is a robotic ball that may change all that

Users control the robotic ball with a iOS or Android device, but not simply for the novelty of rolling a ball via a phone. There are a whole bunch of different apps and games to play with the ball via a mobile device.

"So there's like 'drive,' which is the normal app, but then there's 'draw and drive,' which is like an Etch-A-Sketch. You can draw on the screen and the ball will do what you draw on the screen," says Adam Wilson of Orbotix. "There's also a game of golf."

Sphero costs about $130.

Finally, technology for keeping track of perhaps your most beloved plaything of all comes with the "Tagg," which is kind of like a cellphone for a dog.

The Tagg is attached to the canine's collar, and a computer draws a barrier around the home, called a "geo fence." If the dog then wanders somewhere he or she shouldn't be, the collar will let the owner know immediately.

"If the dog happens to wander away, someone leaves the gate open, gets out the front door and if you're at work you get a text or an email saying the dog has left home and then give you a current location so you can find him and track him down," says Dudley Fetzer of Tagg.

The Tagg unit itself is about $100, there is also though an $8 monthly service fee.