A half-size replica of the Star Wars droid R2-D2 will go on sale in Britain later this year.
It is one of the top 10 toys for 2007 at London’s annual Toy Fair, opening today.
The robot, plays DVDs and CDs, has an iPod dock and uses a scale model of Han Solo’s spaceship, the Millennium Falcon, to house its remote control. It even projects movies in the same way that R2-D2 revealed the hologram of Princess Leia in the original Star Wars (1977) movie.
Peter Jenkinson, of toy consultancy Toyology, commented: "The lines between technology, gadgets and toys are becoming more and more blurred.
"It means that these bits of kit are appealing not just to kids, but to their techy older siblings, even their parents."
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