WowWee Rovio Robot with GPS & Wi-Fi

WowWee introduced Rovio, a new robot with GPS technology from Evolution Robotics. Rovio has a Wi-Fi-enabled Web-cam that allows you to patrol your home while you’re away, via an Internet-enabled PC, console or mobile phone. You can drive the robot with shortcut “go-to” commands. For instance, “go to the dining room”. It also has what they call a “patrol mode” where it automatically sends you pictures of locations you want to check.

It also can also guide itself back on course if, say your kids pick it up and move it and it can navigate to its charging station from anywhere in the home, and dock with pinpoint accuracy.

[Wowwee]

Iona Wi-Fi Internet Radio Cube

Cambridge Consultants' Iona Cube concept, a Wi-Fi enabled internet radio with a simple and intuitive new design.

By simply turning the Cube onto one of its four available sides, it will change to the desired radio station. A fifth side is dedicated to the speaker and the final remaining side is dedicated to switching the radio to the ‘off’ position. The Cube can be quickly and easily customised to play a listener’s top four stations.
The designers involved in this new concept wanted to keep simplicity to the maximum. Accordingly, even the volume button has been removed. Instead, the listener just twists the Cube to the right to increase the volume and twists to the left to decrease it.

[Slashgear]