 Even though the series was a potential boon for Teddy Ruxpin salesmen like himself, Todd decided to pursue other career options.In the mid-1990s he invented one of the earliest vocalizing email clients, "Email2Phone," which allowed subscribers to call a 1-900 number to hear a woman's voice reading the subscriber's emails using computer-enabled electrolarynx technology which was cutting-edge at the time.The technology was later acquired by Prodigy.