Tamagotchi - Digital Pets

The keyboard most likely to help you get ahead doesn't belong to a computer. Flowers that detect pollution, telephones re-purposed for gloves, pendants that glow and Tamagotchi digital pets.

Picture: Tamagotchis, Credit: Getty Images

12 March 1997

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14 minutes

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BBC World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project