Gift: Dave the Funky Monkey Aimed at: Boys aged 10+ (and probably men with a childish sense of humour!) You know what’s missing from daily life? A remote controlled monkey which sits on your shoulder and interacts with passers by. Well, thank God for Dave the Funky Shoulder Monkey. A cute fuzzy spider monkey with [...]

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Gift:Kung Zhu Hamsters Aimed at: Boys 5 - 10 years old. Girls will probably like them too though! Last Christmas, one of the biggest toys was the Zhu Zhu Hamster range (also known as Go Go Hamsters), fluffy robot hamsters aimed at little girls. This year, their big brothers, the Kung Zhu Hamsters, are coming out to [...]

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‘It’s not the technology. It’s what you do with it.’ That’s the tagline from Nokia’s latest ad campaign.   Sure the company has just released a trio of new Symbian phones but it’s the N8 handset that’s getting us excited. Making it clear that the smartphone, is not really a smartphone but more of a mobile [...]

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Scientists from the University of Herefordshire have today unveiled a robot which has being designed to not only show human emotion, but to actually develop them on its own.

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There’s an old stereotype that paints the quintessential geek as a spotty nobody, with trousers up to their eyebrows, an overbite bigger than his terabyte and glasses like coke bottle bottoms, doomed to never find love with a real woman and having to settle for a robot. Well, we here all know that geeks are the [...]

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So in my quest for a daily dose of cute, I’ve been lucky enough to recently acquire a Zibit, an RC robot being pitched as ‘the new must have for every child, tech-lover and toy collector’. But are they good enough for a blogger with a love of robots and all things cute? Watch the video and find out…

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Finally – a robot doll that will appeal to girls more than boys! (Well, except those boys who are just a little bit lonely…) Dorosseru is a character from ‘Fireball’, Japan’s first Disney produced CG movie. I don’t know what it’s about, but if all the characters are as cool as this one then I [...]

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Sick of getting the one trolley that doesn’t go in a straight line? Granny getting a bit old to be lifting the basket on her own when buying her weekly groceries? Or are you just a lazy student or someone who’s stocking up on the booze for New Years Eve? Enter- Robovie-ii! Well actually, exit [...]

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