WowWee has been releasing a lot of programmable robots. From sapiens to dinosaurs, they have many, many little droids in training on the market. This holiday season, they’re going to take it one step further by introducing their very first female robot.

The Femisapien is pretty much like the Robosapien except its designed for girls, and has features like singing and dancing. What I find particularly disturbing is the gratuitous butt shot of the thing as its walking down the red carpet in the intro video on its official site.

This young robot that is surely part of a future invasion that will rule over us all will only set you back $99.

3 has revealed the Skypephpone S2 which includes much more than just your average wi-fi phone. This bad boy sports HSDPA data, a 3.2 megapixel camera, 50MB of memory, and a microSD slot of adding more, and - of course - integrated Skype support.

Of course, Skype-to-Skype calls on the phone are completely free, and you can keep your Skype count working with standard phone lines as well for about $19 a month on a pay-as-you-go option. If you sign up for a plan, however, you can actually get the phone for free.

If you’re going the pay as you go route, the phone will cost you £69 according to Tech Digest.

The Palm Treo Pro is coming soon…and even though Palm hasn’t officially announced it, some nice, professional photography has popped up online. I have to say, this is a good looking Palm. It’s been a while since I’ve really paid attention to Palm. The Treo line has been ok, but nothing that really blew me away. Certainly not in a post-iPhone world.

This, however, has a nice look to it. It looks slimmer than the previous Treos, has a touch screen, and runs Windows Mobile. If that’s what you’re looking for, the Treo Pro may be the thing for you.

We’ll have more info on pricing and specs later in the week when the device is officially announced.

Toshiba was the driving and creative force behind HD-DVD. You may remember that didn’t go so well. Now they have released their newest disk player - and they’re apparently not planning on going Blu-ray anytime soon.

This new player features their “eXtended Detail Enhancement (XDE) technology”. Basically its a super-upconverting tech that is meant to fill the void between normal DVD players and Blu-Ray machines.

Unfortunately, it looks like the up-converting here only offers a “subtle but noticeable sharpening of the image” - which may not be enough to justify its $150 price tag when a standard up-converting DVD player only costs $70.

Breathalyzers should be a more common feature on cars than they are. This new Geosat 6 from AvMap aims to make that a little more common with one being built right into the GPS. Now, granted, the driver has to be willing to take the test to see if they’re safe to drive…but one would hope that there are more people in the world that would be willing to do that than not.

This unit looks like it will be Europe only, but hopefully we’ll see more units like these state side as well in the near future.

via engadget, coolest gadgets

The Touch Sight camera may be one of the most original ideas for a portable device that I’ve ever seen. It is designed to be held against the forehead. The camera doesn’t have a traditional disply, instead it displays a three-dimensional representation of the image on a built-in Braille screen. It also records 3 seconds of audio to assist users in locating and managing their shots.

It’s only a concept design for now, but wouldn’t this be an amazing tool if it ever went into production?

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I don’t know how many times I’ve been driving to work thinking “man, it would be AWESOME if I could microwave some Bagel Bites right now!” Fortunately, those days of Bagel Bite induced dreaming are over - because Maplin (think Radio Shack…but in the UK) has released this bad boy.

It’s a 12 Volt DC power portable Microwave! Sure, it’s probably intended for tailgate parties and for heating up your lunch while the car is safely parked - but I prefer to think that we’re becoming a world so desperately in need of fast food that we’re going to warm to make our own in-car Taco Bells.

This puppy can be yours for only $180.

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If you’ve ever wanted to walk around looking like you had a piece of new technology that was actually secretly created in the 1950s - well, my friend, then you’re going to want to check out the Zivio Boom.

This retro looking Bluetooth headset offers up over 10 hours of talk time, and features an extending boom that looks like it fell straight out of a long time ago.

The device is available now, and can be yours for the not-so-retro price of $130.

If you’re not a fan of being rustled from sleep with a loud noise then this concept by designer Alfie Lake. It’s called the Osim Nioi Alarm Clock and it has three slots that you can load with different smells - both to help wake you up - and put you to sleep.

You can put a fresh flower scent cartridge in one slot for drifting off to slumberland, and have another cartridge wake you up to the smell of fresh bread in the morning.

Of course, it would really suck to wake up to the smell of fresh bread and not actually have fresh bread there to eat…but maybe that’s just me.

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Kodak is releasing their Zi6 HD pocket video camera in both pink and black - and you can pre-order them now.

Of course, you’ll be buying sight unseen - without so much as a single review to guide you on your way, and there is no word yet on when it’ll ship…but you can grab it for $179.95.

via engadget