If you want to be hip and jiggy in the months ahead, it looks as though you're going to have to pair the headset with a wearable robot tail.

Tailly ) is a faux fur robotic tail that responds to your emotions. Inside Tailly's belt, sensors monitor your heart rate; when your heart beats faster, the tail wags.

The inventor, Shota Ishiwatari, designed prototypes of the Necomimi cat ears mentioned above for Japanese company Neurowear, so he knows his responsive animal accoutrements; but Tailly, he insists, is more than a mere plaything: