Activision proved there was a market for small, real-world items interacting with a virtual environment with its toy-based video game Skylanders. Now a French technology company is hoping to expand on that idea.

ePawn is demonstrating a new technology — called the Arena — at this week’s Las Vegas-based Consumer Electronics Show, which it hopes to ship to retail by this holiday. And it’s something of a doozy.

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