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One Minute Interview: Christmas Predictions from BoysStuff.co.uk

We spent the evening with BoysStuff.co.uk, not only speaking to Dr Mark Tilden, but also getting their Christmas predictions for the year ahead. There's also some random footage of the next generation Robosapien shaking this thang.

RoboReptile stomps Europe

Next time you have the urge to reenact Godzilla versus Megalon you can do it in style with the RoboReptile. It screams, it stomps, it struts. To calm it down, you can hood it like a falcon, which it apparently doesn't like - inducing more unpredictable behaviour post-hood. Equipped with touch, sonic and infrared sensors. Goes for £89.95, coming soon to Boysstuff.[GT]

Catch the video of the creator of RoboReptile here.

Tetran - Cute Earphone Cable Winder

The Tetran is a cutesy, spiky, belt loop attach-y cable winder designed to keep your ear buds in check when you don't have them jammed in your ears.  These $13, plastic fellas come in pink, green, yellow, orange and luminous, can double as a stress ball, and are ridiculously cute.

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Two Food-Related Gadgets I Can't Get My Head Around

There are people in this world for whom cooking is an art, a matter of layering flavors and textures to create sublime harmony of foodstuff.  I am not one of them.  Ergo, it may  be my own culinary limitations that make me unable to comprehend why anyone would need a $15 tool like the Melon Ease melon slicer - a device with a sole purpose of slicing melons. No doubt the melon slices will always be uniform and look very pretty, but I can't imagine a world in which I would eat enough melon to make this a viable tool to add to my kitchen arsenal. 

Unless I could also use it to vanquish the hideous vegetable beasties one can create with these Vegiforms (pictured here) - plastic forms one can use to give their growing vegetables faces; because man, these things give me the major heebie jeebies.  Food should not have a face, unless it had one before it was food.  (Otherwise you end up with things like this happy face luncheon meat, which is also unnatural and unnerving.)

Melon Ease [via Slashfood] & Vegiforms [via Consume]

One Minute Video Interview: Robosapiens and the perils of being an inventor

Dr Mark Tilden is the genius behind Robosapien, the little guy that dances, prances and generally causes hilarity. He spent some time with us to explain why he's developed a Veloceraptor, what the Robosapien's big brother can do, as well as why it's difficult to convince the opposite sex that robots are friendly.

Radica's Digi Makeover

You know when you fancy changing your style and you go to the hairdressers to get the Demi Moore and come out with a Dudley Moore ala Monica from Friends? That could be a thing of the past with Radica's Digi Makeover. Use the built-in digicam to take a picture of yourself, upload it to the machine/ connect to your TV and then play about with your hair and make-up style. It's undoubtedly aimed at younger girls so steal it from your younger sister - £59.99 (Radica offer a chance to win one after the jump)

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Radica are also launching a search for 'Girl Tech Girl' which in reality has nothing to do with 'Tech' but just involves you snapping a pic of yourself, sending it in to them via the entry forms in It's Hot and Girl Talk magazines from 13th September.

Prizes include a make over, modelling shoot, clothes vouchers and a Digi Makeover.

Digital Desktop Frame with a Few Extras

As desktop toys go, this Digital Photo Frame is heads and tails above those kinetic balls (although perhaps not as cool as the desktop volcano).  Not only can it display 22 of your digital photos (in BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, or TIF format), but it can also display the time (clock comes with alarm), the temperature, and the date.

Alright, maybe not heads and tails about the traditional kinetic balls, but at the very least, heads above.  After all, it doesn't make that maddening clicking noise those things make when you bang them together.

Product Page - [via Gizmodo]

USB Aroma Geur

Forget USB lava lamps, as randomised sensory experiences go they are strictly old school.  The future of random pulsating lights powered by USB looks to be the USB Aroma Geur - a new gadget coming out this October that will not only provide a little light show, but will also emit scents that coordinate with the music playing on a specific radio station.

This gadget and service will only be available in Japan initially (to the tune of about $430), so it'll be some time before we discover just what Justin Timberlake's "Sexy Back" is meant to smell like.  Thankfully.

Digital Lifestyle [via Engadget]

Goggles to Protect Your Eyes from Onion

Do onions make passes at cook's who wear glasses?  Perhaps not, if the specs in question are these Onion Goggles from Broadway Panhandler. Stylistically, they remind me of something the fellas of Devo might have worn, but what they lack in fashion they allege to make up for in function: there's a foam seal that blocks those pesky onion emissions from making your eyes water.

Product Page [via Slashfood]

Shred Paper, Credit Cards & CDs by Hand

Linguistically speaking, I'm not certain that "shred" is the appropriate word to use in reference to turning your credit cards and CDs into unreadable bits and pieces, (although it certainly is the right word for the third bit of "media" this shredder handles - paper). I would probably have called the 3 In 1 Media/Paper Shredder for sale at Miles Kimball the "Data Destroyer" or something a bit more flash...but then, I imagine that even a more dynamic name won't disguise the fact that this shredder relies on manual power. Isn't shredding by hand just ripping (or, in the case of a CD, breaking)?
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