Author: John Connelly
Control Robosapien with your wiimote
Over at WiiWii.tv – Shiny's Nintendo Wii blog – you can now read about how to control your Robosapien with nothing but your wii remote and voice. This new wiimote "hack"
Top 50 TechDigest.tv weird gadgets of 2006 : No's 25 – 1
And so our list (started yesterday) concludes. Here is a run-down of the top TechDigest weird gadgets of the last year…
Top 50 TechDigest.tv weird gadgets of 2006 : No's 50 – 26
We all love gadgets, but if there's one thing that we love MORE than gadgets it's weird gadgets. So what better way to say goodbye to 2006 than to have a run-down of the top 50 weird gadgets TechDigest brought news of to you over the last 12 months. What follows is…
Walk and glide skates
Piled on the pounds after all those leftover Christmas turkey meals? Then you need to get yourself a pair of these. Called the Walk n' Glides, they're a set of…
What you didn't find under your tree this year: Art.Lebedev Optimus Keyboard
A long and weighty present sits under the tree this Christmas, you edge to it when no one's looking; they're all distracted by the Doctor Who special anyway. The gift wrap cover depicts elves and goblins, "not very festive," you think to yourself, "but I'll let it slide." The name tag dangles seductively before you eyes, you read it…
Electricity use for gadgets "to double"
As more and more gadgets are hailed as "must-own" items and sale numbers of these items grows, electricity usage is growing too. It's now estimated that electricity use – through the sales boom of such items as electric toothbrushes and cordless…
What you didn't find under your tree this year: Sony PlayStation3
As we all recover from the vast amounts of alcohol and food we all consumed over the festive period and as all our new and shiny prezzies are tidied away and put in their places (where they'll no doubt stay) we have some time to…
NASA and Google join forces to put data online
Geek-favourite and solar-explorer NASA has signed a deal with (also) geek-favourite and search-powerhouse Google to archive vast amounts of it's images and data online in an easy-to-search library…
Google patent search beta launches
Google Labs have done it again and this time they launch the Google Patent Search. Though currently only storing data on US patents and really pretty useless to anyone other than the budding inventor…
ASIMO robot takes a spill
It seems that even with all the major advances in technology and the billions of dollars spent Honda are no closer to creating a robot that can walk up and down stairs. The first video we have for you…
