The Cheezy Blog

I remember the days when Amstrad PCs were a real contender on the pre-built market. Companies such as BSkyB relied on them for years. Nowadays they seem to do nothing but come up with cheap home electronics such as the doomed Amstrad E-Mailer.

However they’ve really fallen now, with their upcoming “Amsface”. The device is essentially an animated face of a TV character, that quotes “famous” lines of said character. It comes with 20 quotes pre-loaded, as well as the option to have one personally recorded by the actor who plays the character. Woo, with features like that and the low low price of £39 I’m sure the world will be flocking to buy one.

But wait, there’s more! Not only do you get to hear the dulcet tones of some random character no one has ever heard of, there’s also an animated hand that pops out of a little side door pointing a finger as the device says “You’re fired!”, aren’t we lucky!

That said the device IS meant for charity, but quite frankly only Sun readers would want to darken their mantlepiece with such a tacky bit of plastic, and I’m quite sure Amstrad could have spent their R&D budget on far better charity devices, not to mention wasting money on a two bit actor. It doesn’t even serve any purpose. I could let it off if it took phone messages or something, but all it appears to do is sit there looking stupid!

Take a look at the awful device.