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Live: Toy Fair 2009

Not stopping to grab our coats or brush our teeth, we ran down to the 2009 Toy Fair at London’s Excel Centre. Pushing small children aside, we found f

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Meccano are finally releasing Spykee’s younger siblings, Spykee Vox (£140) and Spykee Cell (£160). Vox is controllable by voice commands while cousin Cell can be controlled through your mobile. They’re also both iPod docks with built-in speakers.

Character have developed one of the fastest robots around. Prime-8 is a mechanoid gorilla with a bad ‘tude, slingshot arms and the ability to roll around on his arms. Check back soon for video footage of him running on a treadmill. Terrifying.

And finally, the surprise hit of the Toy Fair for us Stuffers was Nerf‘s Wiimote holder (£13) to accompany their upcoming EA shoot ‘em up and their bad-ass Havok Fire machine gun (£50).

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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