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The strangest gadgets of 2025

Video. From robot 'girlfriends to AI lipstick': The weirdest tech of 2025

Updated: 26/12/2025 - 8:01 GMT+1

Humanoid robots that fold your laundry to fluffy wearable creatures that act shy around people – there's been plenty of marvellously eyebrow-raising gadgets this year.

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