The blonde My Special Baby looks outwardly like a normal doll with pretty flaxen hair, large blue eyes, painted lips and a charming pink and yellow outfit. This cute facade hides a number of sensors and computer chips making it an extraordinary voice-activated toy that can do everything from laughing and crawling to singing, walking and even growing a few centimetres in height.

The comprehensive setup and operational instructions need to be followed carefully by an adult, with the child..

Soldier of Fortune steers the first-person shooter genre away from the supernatural weaponry of Unreal Tournament and Quake 3, and towards the realistic tactical combat of Rainbow Six and SWAT 3. In Soldier of Fortune, stealth, caution and cover carry as much importance as accuracy and firepower.

Players assume the role of John Mullins (also the name of the games real-life mercenary consultant), a soldier for hire who accepts the most dangerous missions the U..

Heres a welcome twist to the usual stackable toy, offered by Lamaze as part of its Imagining and Discovering collection of products for children aged 12 months to three years.

There are four soft and scrunchy round containers of varying sizes to nest inside each other, or stack one on top of another. The entire presentation is bright and appealing--classic Lamaze--with the vibrantly coloured, contrasting fabrics and materials that have become its signature.

One of the containers has a ..

For advanced digital photographers, Minoltas large and powerful Dimage 7i offers a broad range of features and tools for any type of still photography. With the cameras five-megapixel resolution, images can be outputted at poster sizes, while the excellent 7x optical zoom gets you extremely close to your subjects.

Its definitely not a camera that youre going to be slipping into a pocket. The Dimage 7i is professional class in terms of both performance and size, weighing in at over a pound wi..

If youre uninspired by the idea of buying cards and invitations from shops, why not create your own? Invitations for Dummies enables you to mark all the key events in your life by creating original invitations and notes.

There are no complicated page layouts and with just a few simple clicks of your mouse you can choose an event, such as a birthday or party, select your template and give it your own personal touch.

This package offers you a good mix of templates for all kinds of occ..

Key Creative Stationery is a software factory for cards, envelopes, posters, letters and signs, designed to be installed on a PC running under Windows 3.1, 95 or 98. It provides you with templates, basic themes, and thousands of resizable graphics (called "stamps") with which to supplement your creative work.

The package is simplicity itself to operate. To begin to create an item (e.g. a greeting card) you select a category, in which you see miniature representations of the basic backgr..