The burping robot who gave Mars a miss
‘In a hotel room in Hong Kong the maid walks in to find a large, bearded man under a tent made out of pillows and a duvet, clutching a torch and burping into a voice recorder.
The man is Mark Tilden, 6ft 3in and weighing 350lb, who has consumed huge quantities of Thai food and Pepsi (’because Chinese and Coca-Cola doesn’t make you burp very well’) to help him bring up wind. What the maid, in her shock, does not realise is that she is witnessing the birth of the most sought-after toy in the world.
Robosapien, a remote-controlled walking, talking, burping robot that stands 14in tall, has seized the coveted number one spot on children’s want list this Christmas, following Tamagotchis and Furbies in keeping parents awake at night as shops run out of stocks.’
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