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The Elvinator: One Man's Quest to Merge Singing Elvis Robot with Terminator Killing Machine

I thought I had seen the last of the WowWee singing Elvis robot last summer when Wilson skinned the thing and gave me nightmares. I was wrong. Instructables user GW Jax has put his Elvinator on display, which combines "The King" with T101, the king of death. More »

8:02 PM on Fri Jun 27 2008
By Adrian Covert
4,894 views, 20 comments

Latest by bbfreak: Snugglator. Terrifying. more »

robots

Insider Vid Shows WowWee Femisapien Fembot Knows All the Moves

The Sega E.M.A. fembot we showed you on the weekend is really the WowWee Femisapien, and WowWee has just popped up a couple of "insider videos" of it in action. They show the cleverer parts of the tech, and get Femisapien doing a little swashbuckling: though the two 'bots are just going through a set of scripted moves, the end result fencing match is impressive. In the second video, WowWee inventor Mark Tilden shows exactly how smart Femisapien is at learning moves as you pose it. More »

11:00 AM on Wed Jun 18 2008
By Kit Eaton
3,810 views, 46 comments

Latest by n/a: Wait, so this is from WowWee? Odd. MSNBC kept calling these "Robot Girlfriends"! more »

fairies

Disney RC Tinkerbell Ornithopter Redefines the Term "Flying Fairy"

This Disney RC Tinker Bell is one seriously sweet flying fairy. As you see in the video, it's using WowWee's FlyTech ornithopter-type vertical flying system to flutter, glide and dive around this Waldorf-Astoria suite. It'll be out in the fall for $40. [Disney]

7:07 PM on Tue Jun 17 2008
By Benny Goldman
12,229 views, 23 comments

robots

WowWee Wrex the Dawg Bot Gets Video Review

The guys over at RobotsRule.com have just come up with this review of WowWee's new Wrex the Dawg toy robot. And sure, it's no Aibo, or even the robot dog from yesterday, but it's got a certain something. It's remote-controllable, programmable and has a suite of 18 tricks to act out, depending on its mood. And you can leave it in Guard mode, ready to stir itself and terrify your cats with some very strange noises. Check out those worryingly hypnotic rotating, flashing eyeballs too. If this 'bot tickles your fancy, you'll have to wait, as there's no info on release date— but it'll cost about $170. [Geek Alerts]

6:22 AM on Wed Jun 4 2008
By Kit Eaton
990 views, 10 comments

Latest by n/a: Amusing little bot! I'm surprised WowWee decided to do a Acme style jury-rigged design for once! more »

robots

WowWee Chatterbot Looks Like Robot Hell-Hound, Does Friendly Banter

Move over iBuddy and Availbot, the masters of robo-companionship toys have arrived on scene. This is a WowWee Chatterbot, a USB-powered desktop companion that reacts with some motion and a bit of chattering to "trigger" words typed into emails, IM, calendar entries and the like. It's not as smart as Robosapien, of course: basically it just spouts out jokes and bits of commentary. Because we all like hellish dogs with eerie eyes responding to our typing, don't we? The video reveals the toy in action. More »

11:40 AM on Fri May 9 2008
By Kit Eaton
2,898 views, 13 comments

Latest by VENAT0R: @Munch: i'd blend that. shits as creepy as it is stoopid more »

toys

Wall-E Robot Toy In Action

We just saw the Wall-E toy in action, and it's a pretty interesting toy (although not $190 worth of interesting). The best features include fully articulating tank treads, 10 motors, audio and vision sensors, remote control by both joystick and touchpad, individual shutters on each eye, and collision detection. Wall-E also has a "follow me" mode that'll allow a Wall-E to stick to a kid or dog and track it around the house. (We would have tried it out, but it was far too noisy and crowded at Maker Faire for Wall-E to track anything or anyone reliably.) [Maker Faire and Wall-E]

2:38 PM on Sun May 4 2008
By Brian Lam
39,413 views, 26 comments

Latest by n/a: Their's actually I another version out of Wall-e called U Command Wall-e and it's only 39.99 a bit on the cheaper side for people who don't want to break the bank buying this one. I picked mine up at Toys more »

toys

Ultimate Wall-E Robot Being Brought to Life by Disney, Thinkway Toys

Disney is teaming up with Thinkway Toys to make Wall-E into a real robot. The toy, titled Ultimate Wall-E, will retail at a stonking $189.99 and will ship this summer. The robot will feature 10 motors for movement, remote control, programming mode and obstacle, sound and touch detection sensors for basic environment interactions. More »

4:14 AM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Haroon Malik
15,396 views, 41 comments

Latest by n/a: Here is a nice safe looking robot for all you parents to buy for your kiddies!! [www.yankodesign.com] more »

dealzmodo

Dealzmodo: Talking Elvis Robot Only $99

The Talking Elvis robot is on sale at the WowWee store for just $99. Depending on how you look at it, that's either $200 less than it should be, or $99 too much. Either way, if you can't make room for a creepy hunk o' burning love in your living room, then... you're probably smarter than us. [WowWee]

4:30 PM on Tue Mar 18 2008
By Benny Goldman
1,831 views, 13 comments

birds of prey

Hawks Agree: WowWee's Dragonfly Tastes Delicious

It appears that hawks the world over are not Giz readers, because they would have known that WowWee's Dragonfly is for high flying fun—not eating. Apparently, one such technologically impaired hawk in Long Island learned this the hard way after it snatched a boy's Dragonfly out of mid air. More »

7:00 PM on Thu Feb 21 2008
By Sean Fallon
8,848 views, 19 comments

robots

CES 2008: Comprehensive Robot Roundup


We had a wail of a time at CES 2008, but we were not the only ones. The various robots on display were also going nuts at the convention. We have rounded them all up in this excellent video, showing you the neat robotics that we thought were worthy of a video shout out. Hit the clip to see them in action, and then read on for a full breakdown of all the droids featured. More »

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2:00 AM on Mon Jan 14 2008
By Haroon Malik
4,110 views, 5 comments

Latest by liquidsoapdispenser: @roschler: I'm all over the Rovio too! more »

clips

Justify Your Gadget: WowWee FemiSapien


The FemiSapien is WowWee's new female robot, a RoboSapien with a hot-ish, Barbiesque figure. For now the FemiSapien is just a toy for children, but we know what you're thinking: "Cylon companion."

So can WowWee justify their gadget? (Or, maybe more importantly, do female robots really need any justification at all?)

3:26 PM on Tue Jan 8 2008
By Mark Wilson
9,583 views, 19 comments

ces 2008

CES 2008: What You Missed So Far

We arrived at CES yesterday, and despite being separated into bloggers and press, and watching the game in standard def, we've had a great time so far. If you've missed the coverage, let's catch you up to speed: More »

2:00 PM on Sun Jan 6 2008
By Benny Goldman
4,467 views, 2 comments

wowwee rovio

WowWee Rovio, Everything the Aibo Should Be


WowWee, makers of such fine products as cat-hunting dragonflies, have unveiled a new, fairly badass three-wheeling robot for home use that's not all the different from the specs we've seen in Sony's new rumored AIBO. A webcam-enabled robot featuring a Northstar GPS system, you can spy on anyone in your house from anywhere in the world.

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7:58 PM on Sat Jan 5 2008
By Mark Wilson
7,157 views, 14 comments

robots

WowWee Replaces the Robosapien with the Tribot Friend-Replacement Robot


This WowWee Tribot is the replacement for last year's Robosapien, a fun-loving, (probably cheesy) joke-telling robofriend to fill the voids of your lonely nights. It plays games that require you to move it around in certain patterns, and its three wheels give it a pretty decent range of movement. It also has a motion-sensing controller, allowing you to move it forwards and backwards by simply tilting it where you want to go. The price for companionship will be $99.99 when the Tribot goes on sale this summer.

7:57 PM on Sat Jan 5 2008
By Adam Frucci
2,790 views, 9 comments

Latest by Z: @REILAOS : The wheel system is generally known as a Killough platform so that you can achieve holonomic movement. OK I have no idea what it means either I copied that bit from wikipedioa. They work well as 3 or 4 more »

death from above

WowWee Bladestar Autonomous Helicopter and Waiter-Decapitation Device


This is the new WowWee FlyTech Bladestar, an R/C helicopter-type toy that can also fly around "autonomously," avoiding walls and faces using an IR beam. You still need to pay attention to it, however, as it'll keep flying higher and higher unless you tell it to stay low, otherwise it'll fly too close to the sun and melt its delicate, delicate blades. If you're flying it manually you've gotta be careful or you might take out a waiter or two, as our friend from WowWee managed to do pretty quickly. It'll be on sale next month at Target (and only at Target, for some reason) for $50.

7:38 PM on Sat Jan 5 2008
By Adam Frucci
6,597 views, 16 comments

Latest by HJTravels: BALANCE_IN_LIFE is right they are like those things in Half-Life 2, Man-Hacks or something, only smaller. When does Half-Life 3 come out? more »

clips

Homer Simpson Robosapien Caught on Video

In the realm of horrible Simpsons knockoff toys, this Homer Simpson Robosapien has to be one of the worst ever. Shall we count the things wrong with it? First, it's not even the real Homer's voice. Second, well, it's a piece of crap. Watch the video to see Shiny Shiny struggle to get the thing to work. [Shiny Shiny]

4:00 PM on Fri Aug 3 2007
By Jason Chen
4,181 views, 23 comments

elvis lives

All-Singing All-Dancing Skinned WowWee Elvis Video


You remember last Friday's Elvis robot from WowWee Alive? You remember how our unboxing got extra creepy when we decided to see what was under the skin of the replicant King? If you didn't think it could get any weirder, watch our video, in which the faceless Elvis robot sings, wiggles and banters with unseen lovely ladies.

2:20 PM on Mon Jul 23 2007
By Wilson Rothman
13,141 views, 18 comments

elvis lives

WowWee Alive Elvis Robot Unboxed... and Skinned

There was no need to perform a Voight-Kampff test on this skin job. It came from the folks who introduced the world to the Robosapien—and besides, it had infrared vision sensors and no arms or legs. Since we showed you the first glimpse of robot Elvis at CES, we realized that now that it's out, the only direction to go was a full-on skinning in the name of technical appreciation.
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8:18 PM on Fri Jul 20 2007
By Wilson Rothman
14,104 views, 35 comments

Latest by Whammo: Wow, It's... Elvis... without a... face? more »

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