“see I love technology/ but not as much as you you see/ but still i love technology/ always and forever….”

Welcome SpykeeVox by Meccano, better known as Erector in the US. The household toy robot industry has been growing steadily for the past decade or two, but I think we’ve finally hit a turning point. First off, these things execute all the existing functions of robots like voice activation, the ability to control local electronics (dvd player, etc.), talk to you as well having some other advanced functions that may or may not already exist like play MP3’s, taking pictures/videos, and saving them to an iPod (which takes the place of its WHOO HAA). That design decision was definitely well thought-out. We’ll call it an homage of sorts to the status symbol the iPod and iPhone have become. Just leave it to those Italians to equate it to something sexual. Touche my friends. Touche. Oh, and you can also control this thing via Blutooth, Skype, and/or the internet from anywhere in the world. Sadly enough I can see the 10 year-old pervert sending this thing into his older sister’s sleepover and the 40 year-old pervert sending it into his step daughter’s sleepover.

I want one, not to be a pervert – just to replace my damned Roomba. The thing is getting annoying and isn’t nearly is interesting as Buster Bluth made it seem at the end of Season 2 of Arrested Development…

Last but not least, this thing is made by Erector, the same company that makes Erector sets! Hopefully soon enough we’ll have some 1337 add-ons like an automatic bread-in-a-can opener or Caf-fiend article reader!