Fans love Mimobots because they combine pop culture with functionality: they hold 2 GB to 16 GB of data, and they look stylish sitting on your desk or plugged into your laptop.
The seams of a bodice traced the window frames of a view from a stylish sitting room onto a Hockney-blue swimming pool, while the steps and columns of a veranda, printed onto a miniskirt, suggested the outline of stockings and suspenders.
The stylish dude sitting opposite me in a restaurant booth off Union Square in Manhattan looks as if he has stepped out of a Seventies film by Martin Scorsese: black patent leather loafers, red flares, paisley shirt, short Afro.
Now girls can finally see themselves reflected in the toys, can imagine their own beautiful brown eyed, blue haired, curvy, stylish selves sitting in the Ferrari and pulling up next to their dream home in a climate where many women are being more mindful of what imagery they pass on to their daughters, and rejecting the kind of beauty that Barbie has come to represent and "reflect".
You can see them walking the sandy corniche by the sea, enjoying the park-like beauty of the recently completed canal, or sitting at any stylish café.
In a rapidly gentrifying area such as Hackney, next to the Walker's crisps you might see the appearance of lentil chips, wholegrain crispbreads competing for space with McVitie's biscuits, and tall cans of Polish lager sitting above the stylish labels of east London micro-breweries.
Bournemouth The redeveloped Boscombe pier opened in 2008, sitting alongside a string of stylish "surf pods" (formerly beach huts).
Orwell and Goode Badger Round Pouffe: £115, notonthehighstreet.com The kids will love Orwell and Goode's animal print pouffes, but they're stylish enough to go in an adults' sitting room, too.
Pick out the one you want from the window or ask the attendants – whose diligent service matches the 1940s atmosphere – and you'll have a stylish, exquisitely made, and reasonably priced creation sitting atop your head in no time.
A pair of independent monitors just sitting side by side look functional but hardly stylish, and their separate bases occupy a lot of desk space.
The stylish B&B rooms are divided between two village houses, each with communal sitting and dining room plus large kitchen where breakfast is prepared.
