Hehehe!! Believe it or not! the "Jetsons" era is here!!

Bluetooth enabled, it uses infrared to project a clear and crisp keyboard onto your desktop, and then transfers your keystrokes via wireless networking to your PDA, Pocket PC or smart phone - it sounds far too futuristic to be true. But it's very much for real, and it's awesome.

This 22nd Century gadget is about half the size of your average deck of cards, sits wirelessly on any flat surface, and projects a red standard QWERTY-layout keyboard on any flat opaque surface. Using detection technology it "watches" your fingers hit the key locations it has projected, and then sends the keystrokes through to your PDA, smart phone or pocket PC via Bluetooth.

The projected keyboard is highly visible even in strong light (though it does of course look spectacularly cool in the dark). It's highly portable as well, though it will make you look a bit of a lunatic at the local, as you will look like you're typing on nothing more than the pub table (which also raises some serious health and safety concerns), and you will of course be interrupted every fourteen seconds with someone coming over and wanting to know where they can get one.

There is no cooler keyboard in the known universe.

Robosapien V2

If you ask me what I want for my next birthday, I'd say "Robosapein V2" (btw, my b'day is 14th Sept, incase you're kind enough!).

It is the brainchild of NASA scientist Mark Tilden, its friendly, its rude, but its outright cute and intelligent!!

Compared to V1, Robosapien V2 is a mighty 2ft (60cm) tall and towers over his earlier incarnation, but of course not only is he butcher (not a real butcher, it would be inadvisable to let him lose with sharp objects), he's had a massive brain implant. He now has a multi-sensory, interactive humanoid personality and is now capable of autonomous behaviour - reacting to things he sees, sounds he hears, (as well as people and objects), which is a lot more interaction than you get from your boss!!

The main features (of course, except the endless possibilities of "hacking") of Robosapien V2 are:

Features

• Humanoid body movement, including bending, sitting and standing, lying down and getting up, waving, martial arts etc.
• True bi-pedal walking with multiple gaits.
• Precision gripping, articulated fingers.
• Realistic 2-axis turning head with animated LED eyes.
• Interactive sensors.
• Reactive movement - will get up if knocked down.
• Speech: responds verbally to environmental stimuli and to controller commands.
• Colour vision system: recognizes colours and skin tones: interacts with objects and people.
• IR vision: detects and avoids obstacles and table edges: tracks moving objects.

• Actions and Programming:
• Has the ability to perform over 80 actions with programming.
• Actions: Walks / Kicks / Picks up and throws objects / Responds to commands / Dances / Rap routine / Kung-fu moves / Farts / Belches / Whistle / Listens for sounds / Reacts to your touch.
• Three demo modes: Disco; Rude behaviour and Kung Fu Kata.
• Wakes up on start with a yawn and says uh-huh.
• After a time of non-use he goes to sleep and snores
• He will stop when he bumps into walls
• He can pick up objects and throw them, lean forwards, backwards and take steps
• Bulldoze through clutter
• Knocks things over with sweeping arm action
• Can high 5
• Left and right sensor programme - he can follow up to 6 commands on each side, after programming touch one of the left or the right sensors on his body and he will perform the programme.
• Sonic sensor programme - he can follow up to 6 commands - after programming Robosapien will remember and perform this programme when he is in listen mode.
• Master programme - can follow up to 14 commands - having entered 14 actions he will go through each one automatically

• Size: 61cm tall
• Requires 6 x D cell batteries and 3 x AAA batteries(not included)
• Batteries last for about 15 hours of play.
• Ages 5+ (add 25 to that pls)