If you were a kid in the 1980s you might have been lucky enough to score a Big Trak — a robotic toy you could program using a membrane keyboard to do 16 different motions. [Howard] has one, but not ...

Roboscooper: a cute little toy or an exercise in excruciating frustration? You decide. The six-wheeled robot is like a cross between Wall-E and the 1980s "favorite" Big Trak. In fact, the product page ...

8.65 litres/100km. The SUV craze of the last decade shows no sign of abating. Car companies continue to queue like 747's over Stansted to land their poshed-up Jeeps on our driveways. To judge from ...

Toy robots are nothing new. In the 1980s, the R2D2-like Tomy Verbot or the clunky Milton Bradley Big Trak let kids program their movements or actions using voice commands or a keypad. The marketing ...