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WowWee's MiP revisited: the dance of the robot fairies
You might remember the MiP from such posts as Meet WowWee's MiP: A gesture and app-controlled robot with moves like Jagger and Live from the Engadget CES Stage: WowWee CTO Davin Sufer. Well, if you happened to catch the latter of those two, you might also remember that the demo gremlins made a bit of an appearance while Davin Sufer was on stage. So, we followed the company's CTO back to the WowWee booth where he promised a special treat, and boy did he deliver. Turns out you can control more than one MiP from a single phone. So he connected to six of his little bots, picked out a song from his library and started the charismatic little buggers on an epic synchronized dance. We don't want to bore you by repeating the details we already offered in our previous hands-on, just enjoy the video below.
Meet WowWee's MiP: A gesture and app-controlled robot with moves like Jagger
They see me rollin', they hatin'...
Mercedes' new Media Interface Plus is smartphone-friendly, Bluetooth-equipped, and Pandora-ready
Mercedes has a new $298 accessory available now that adds another level of smartphone compatibility to its existing in-vehicle controls of iPods and aux audio. The Media Interface Plus allows the car to stream audio from an iPhone, BlackBerry, or any other compatible Bluetooth music player (we're guessing A2DP, though Mercedes doesn't specify). The MIP can also control the Pandora app on the iPhone and BlackBerry, and other features like SMS and email reading / writing are forthcoming. There are iPod / iPhone and Mini-USB plugs for charging, and an optional cable can pull video from your iPhone as well and display it on your in-dash screen -- when the car is at a standstill, of course.
