Hexbug

Yes, not only he caught the flu bug, Idlan caught the Hexbug as well. It was basically a smart toy, mimicking an insect wiggling through their habitat. I bought them from Toys'r'us yesterday, and we couldn't stop staring at them. I was pretty sure we would be running out of batteries soon.

After we changed the habitat layoutThe habitat could be customised by adding on accessories. They were not exactly cheap. It came with a couple of bugs - which were coded, and apparently unique. We bought the smallest unit, called the Nano. Spent the afternoon having a look at more information about them from the Net. Rather interesting ….

You can watch the video here.

Bakugan = bersepah!

Nowadays, I can't walk around my living room without stepping onto one of these. It's a craze that my children have been having for the last few months, collecting these little round things, called Bakugan.

Buying some more in the bag!They have a magnetic mechanism which releases the spring to make the round ball pop into the various characters when they land on metal surfaces. Quite neat trick. The original ones last a long time and have really robust mechanism. The problem is, they go for RM20 each! Not cheap! So far, they have not destroyed many and over the last 6 months, I think we accumulated more than 30 of these!