Toyology

Electronic Music Machine - The Korg Kaossilator

Shift over Stylophone we've found an all new way to play to compose a work of electronic genius. The Korg Kaossilator impressed us with its name right away and then the build quality of the brightly coloured box, even before we switched it on we were hooked. Using the touchpad and a flick of a few switches you are ready to access and tweak 100 synth or percussive sounds (guitar, bass, snare, crazy sound effects, etc), manipulate various drum sounds and play in any one of 31 scales in any key. Plug your earphones in and mix it up on the 8.15, when you've master the art plug it into a bigger speaker system set and let the public lap it up. £149.95 from FIREBOX

Desktop Delorean

Grab yourself an 1/18th scale version of the iconic time-travelling car complete with light and sound effect from the film, its Back to the Future for those still wondering. $34 at Bigbadtoys

Rubik's TouchCube - Details released

 

Over at New York Toy Fair we've had a good rummage around, Mattel's Mindflex continues to impress but we told you about that over a month ago. Catching many an eye is the latest evolution in the seemingly unstoppable life of the Rubik’s Cube. The Rubik's TouchCube features touch sensor technology on all six sides, a motion-detecting accelerometer (akin to the iPhone) and colored lights in every square. It doesn't flash and beep annoyingly or offer quick fire games as many earlier efforts to expand the range may have done but mimics the movements of the original Cube. Swipe your digit over three squares in a line and marvel as the cube moves by shifting the colours around,asatisfying display. The accelerometer ensures that only moves made on the top are recognised and fingers fumbling about on the underside don't affect play. There's also a built-in solver, ask for a hint or select full solve, the internal memory lets you switch off and pick up where you let off and it's all accompanied by modern or classic sound effects. The cube is a second half of 2009 product, that's as close as we can get to a release date with a $150 price tag. Sign up HERE for updates.

Bash Street kids Alright!

This is a great spin on the mny interactive shoot-em-up games on the market right now. Using an infra-red catapult you need to restore some kind of order to the chaotic classroom as the figures pop up from behind their desks accompanied by off-putting sounds.Grab one for £19.95 from Prezzybox

Cartoon Capers

There seems to be a new found taste for the dastardly duo of late, this pair of wind-up walkers are the perfct desktop distraction for Beano fans of any age. Just £4.99 the set at PLAY - More character gear from the Beano range later.

BOLT Unleashed

The new Disney animation is fantastic, especially in 3D, which is how the Toyology team enjoyed it last night. The merchandise available to fans of the film has just arrived at the office and we're mighty impressed at whats on offer. First up is an utterly useless Hamster in a ball that just rolls around the floor, if you have any pets they'll love it and you'll become hypotised  for longer than you should as it scoots abouit the floor, its £9.99 at Thetoyshop. Next we have two versions of the superhero canine himself, give Talking Bolt a squeeze and hear one of three Super Barks or grab a Super Hero Bolt with light-up laser eyes, sonic bark, super leap and wagging tail £14.99 and £24.99 over at thetoyshop.

Writing tool - Ray Gun Style

 

The Acme company are famed for their quirky and stylish range of pens, (as well as being Coyotes favorite shop) their latest arrival is this stellar Ray Gun pen to the hands of we earthlings. This retractable rollerbal has a gun-sight clip and a stand about as good looking as the pen, a fine desktop decoration, good enough to grace the worksurfaces of business bigshots who have a sense of humour when "firing" folk. - Yours for $130 at Acme

Star Trek Toys - Part II

Collect the crew of the Starship Enterprise with these twelve detailed 3 ¾” Action Figures (RRP £6.99) each have decent character features, well they look like mini versions of the actors, which is great, oh and they are fully articulated for posing them every which way - From Captain Kirk to Spock grab your own private Starship Enterprise army. Better still, for a bit of “Beam me up”! action get a Transporter Room Playset, it has a ll the lights, sounds, working parts and accessories complete with an action figure to re-create beaming scenes from your favourite episodes – The figures disappear and reappear in front of your very eyes using technology punching well aabove it's £30 price tag. Bringing up the rear is the Bridge playset, details are a little sketchy but we think it's going to be about £25 and also treat us to a light and sound show, now if we can plug our media players and watch films on that screen it would be pretty good. See Vivid Imaginations

 

Etch A Sketch for the TV

Just plug your electronic Etch-A-Sketch in to the TV and select from one of four artistic modes - Cool Drawing Tools, Trace A Pic, Super Sketch or Connect The Dots - As well as an extra large image of your efforts surrounded on screen by and oversized fascia of the handheld you shake the controller to clear the screen. It's a US product priced at just $6.37 at Lighter Side

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Rubik's goes Round

Not content with bothering our brains with a cubed version Rubik's are launching this 360 version in the Summer, and we wager you can't pry this one apart to cheat your way to completion. The 360 consists of a transparent plastic sphere with another couple of transparent spheres inside which are both suspended on a rotating axis, and then there's the with six balls in the middle. All that you have to do is steer them  through holes in the spheres and into their coloured home slots on the outside. Sounds simple enough... we'll see.