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WowWee’s Rovio: 3-wheeled, Wi-Fi-enabled (and iPhone compatible!) robotic home surveillance

Have you every wondered exactly what your cat or dog gets up to when you’re not home?
WowWee Robotics, the pioneering company behind Robosapien, gives you its new WiFi-enabled, remotely-controlled robotic webcam platform.
Known as WowWee Rovio Wi-Fi - the 3-wheeled telepresence allows you to interact with its environment, surveying the home or office remotely through streaming video and audio transmitted via the Internet to your cell phone, PC or video game console. Video is captured through a built-in camera and NorthStar smart navigation boosts the units ability to act autonomously.

Working like a micro-GPS system, the NorthStar navigation and positioning system enables the WowWee Rovio Wi-Fi robot to know where it is, locate the position of other objects, and accurately navigate through its environment under its own control.

Got an iPhone? Enter “Rovio Driver” the new application available from Bertrand Leroy on the iPhone App Store.
With a quick download and a few settings, you’ll be up and running in no time.
The free app adds head position / rotation controls and the camera view appears to be much larger than the standard version.

The WowWee Rovio Wi-Fi is now US $ 315,17 (and that’s 10% off its regular price!)

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