Month: February 2006
Toy Fair 2006: Race the Stig
There's nothing like a man of mystery. Especially one with a fast car. And in all honesty, it was more the picture of the Stig on the box that attracted me to this 'interactive electronic board game' (mmm, nice…
London Toy Fair 2006: Karaoke machine with snapper
Get your kids a karaoke machine like this from Easy Karaoke and chances are, twenty years down the line they'll be sitting in a small, private booth in Soho with their mates stinking of fags and Asahi beer while…
London Toy Fair 2006: Crazy Frog mic
As if children aren't annoying enough, here comes a product to make sure your offspring grows up to be the type of person who describes themselves as 'wacky'. This karaoke mic from Nikko Toys is actually designed to make…
London Toy Fair 2006: iPal
A couple of weeks back London had its annual Toy Fair. We sent intrepid freelancer and trainee Goth Danielle Pennington to check it out, and here's her pick of what's going to be big with the kids and their…
Motorola Q date slips
We've talked at length about the Motorola Q smartphone in the past, about how slim it is, how feature-packed it is and how much of a BlackBerry beater it could be – if it ever arrives that is. The…
Laptop bags with guaranteed protection
We've covered Port's bright and arguably stylish laptop bags before – on the basis that they look so different to the usual selection of back padded cases often associated with the portable PC. Well now Port reckon their bags…
Sony's Aibo bites back!
It was a sad day indeed when Sony announced the end of its robot dog, AIBO, the Japanese giant preferring to concentrate on profitable ventures as opposed to novelty mutts with high research costs. But as AIBO supplies dry…
Genus DAB with rewind and MP3
The DAB market is something of a crowded place these days, with something a little different needed to jump out from the crowd. Nevada has made their latest model, the Genus PR1, into more of an all rounder, with…
Budget DAB from Goodmans
It wasn't that long ago that the DAB radio was seen as a luxury item. These days, the budget market is booming. Note the TRDAB2830 from Alba at less than £40. Well, from the same stable and for not…
Technology to kill off record labels?
Not long off the Brits now, lots of back slapping for the great and the good of the record industry. But will the golden years last much longer? Not if a new online service called Tunecore takes off. Tunecore…
