At first glance a robot that looks like 2 fury tennis balls stuck together may not seem all that special, but this little fury wonder has just been named in the top 10 robots of all time! No the awards officials haven’t completely lost the plot. My Keepon has a huge following with hundreds upon thousands of YouTube videos, amassing over 4 million views! So how did such a simple looking robot find such fame amongst the more technologically advanced robots available on the market, the story behind it is somewhat special indeed.

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Epicness in a plenty, the you guide the ball-bearing through the tracks, through tubes and down falls as you try to complete the puzzle. You need to twist and turn the Perplexus Epic 360 degree’s in order to work your way around the maze. Taking the obstacles and concepts that other 3D mazes introduced to an extreme you’ll need your wits about you to complete the puzzle and make your way through no less than 125 different stages, all designed to challenge your dexterity.

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The game is one where you defend your position and man the stonghold against a swarm of aliens who have invaded earth and probably want to eat your brains. Nothing unusual or novel about a good old fashioned alien shoot em up we know, but here comes the clever bit. Through the use of augmented reality the appBlaster allows you to play the game on your iPhone and using the accelerometer of your iPhone/iPod touch, the game rotates as you do, meaning you truly enter the gaming environment.

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The Super Soaker Scatter Blast does exactly what it says on the tin. Firing 5 jets of water in a trademarked “scatter blast” motion. This pump action water blaster fires at distances of up to 7.6 metres meaning you don’t have to increase the risks of you yourself getting a soaking, you can pick your targets off at some distance and we don’t know if you’ve tried it (we did), but throwing a bucket of water 7.6 metres isn’t going to soak your target unfortunately making this the water fight snipers gun of choice this summer.

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Gone are the tiny one handed pistol guns that hold little more than a dribble of water and now we’ve gotten serious. There is of course nothing wrong with taking water fights seriously, there is a matter of pride at stake and you should arm yourselves with the best possible equipment possible. The AK47 Aqua fire should simply be billed as the daddy of all water-guns, and the daddy of water guns is what you shall be requiring for your water war.

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They say dolphins are pretty intelligent creatures, though sadly we are going to have to disagree. See If dolphins were indeed that intelligent, they’d have got themselves one of these nifty Bladefish Sea Scooters by now.. giving us the dolphin version of a couch potato we imagine, as it lazes it’s way through the ocean taking in the scenery. Diving is great, taking in the ocean from underwater is a magical experience, but all that exercise making us healthy as we swim down to depths of sea monsters? That’s just not for us.

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What’s a Waboba we hear you cry? It’s a question we asked ourselves long and hard. Simply this years must have beach accessory, the Waboba Balls are made of polyurethane and have a Lycra coating which allows them to bounce off the water at great speed once you have perfected the technique. The Waboba ball pro succeeds the Waboba ball extreme and bounces much higher, further and faster than its predecessor.

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These days everybody has a secret talent. Whether it’s the girl in the office who can fit her whole fist in her mouth, the window cleaner that whistles the theme tune to Dallas on every visit (maybe it’s just ours?) or the guy who you play football with that can head the ball up to a thousand times, which gets a little boring after about the 20th if we’re honest. The Britain’s Got talent Judges Buzzer allows you to show what you think to all of these weird and wonderful “talents” in a way they are really going to understand.

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A puzzle that has no solution? We give you the NeoCube Alpha, the puzzle that has literally billions of combinations to aim for, but no actual purpose. Even without a purpose we found the NeoCube Alpha completely impossible to put down, so head our warning, this little puzzle is extremely addictive.Composed of 216 individual high-energy rare-earth magnets, the NeoCube Alpha allows you to create literally hundreds of shapes and patterns.

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If Carlsberg made puzzles, they’d make the best puzzles in the world we imagine and they would look something very similar to the Addictaball. A labyrinth style game where you have to guide your ball along the passageways, twisting and turning the Addictaball anywhere up to 360 degrees in order to achieve the ultimate aim of getting your ball to the end of the puzzle, which isn’t easy.

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Golfers… Bless them, always losing their balls. Well not if they have these super cool Golf Ball Finder Glasses with their specially tinted lenses which filter out the foliage and grass making the white golf balls stand out and easier to find, which means you spend less time hunting about for golf balls and more time enjoying the game you love. We’re also told by one of our golfing buddies that simply using these golf ball finding glasses he managed to save the amount he spent on them within just a couple of games.

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Are you the type of person that can construct an Ikea desk without looking at the instructions or are you the type of person that calls in help from your dad? It’s an important question to ask yourself before opening the box to the Space Coaster Marble Run because depending on your answer, it’s going to take you either 20 minutes or 2 hours to construct. So after donning your Bob The Builder hat and somewhat rewardingly figuring out how to put it together, the fun really starts.

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Just what are Chatimals? Imagine for a moment if you will an experiment involving a hamster, a parrot and a truck load of helium… well you won’t be too far wrong. If when you were young (or even now your older…) you ever played that little game where you somewhat frustratingly repeat exactly what someone says to you continuously, then we would like to introduce you to your new best friend. The Chatimal is tipped by the toy experts to be a contender for toy of the year.

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Dave The Monkey literally interacts with the people around him through the clever use of a remote control that you can keep hidden away in your hand out of sight, making Dave look like a very clever Monkey indeed. He has a gesture, an emotion or a sound for every occasion and you can literally make it look like he is communicating with the people around him. He laughs, he cries, he sleeps, he nods his head and so much more, Dave literally takes on a personality of his own.

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The Parrot AR.Drone is a major step forward in gaming. Featuring gyroscopes, accelerometers, ultrasounds and visual input from downward facing cameras it is capable of maintaining its position and hovering at a height of up to three metres, stabalising itself and remaining hovering even if you let go of the controls! It has a range of up to 50 metres, offers a generous 12 minutes flight time and can work in winds of up to 9mph, meaning you don’t need a perfectly sunny day (which is a rarity in the UK) to run it.

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