Gadgetry is synonymous with bells and whistles, but sometimes it’s the personal approach that stands out.

What possible benefit is there to recording a child’s intimacies, storing them in the cloud and making them available to unidentified third parties?

A digger, a pick-up truck, a sports car and a beach buggy make up ­Dokter and Misses’ new range of self-assembly toy cars.

Rooti dolls claim to be the first fashion dolls to speak languages from countries ranging from Ghana to Zimbabwe.

Forget the metric system — vinyl always sounds cooler when it’s measured in inches.

The Pekoppa toy, which looks like a small plant just starting to sprout from a pot, flutters its two leaves when it senses someone is speaking nearby.

It’s not child’s play to showcase "toys" made by artists reflecting on a changing world in African countries.

It is a classic tale of industrial espionage: top employees secretly speak to rival firms; computer files are destroyed; billions are at stake.