WowWee is one of the world's best-known manufacturers of toy-robots, its numerous products being found in just about any respectable toy store around the world. And that's also the case with one of the company's latest released, a robot dubber Mr. Personality, which arrived on the market in October 2008 and could prove to be a very good companion for children and grown-ups alike.The device can carry out a large number of functions, as for example sell jokes and stories, read one's daily fortunes, answer questions regarding their future with either “yes” or “no”. Furthermore, by using the content playback control functions on the remote controller, one can affect the outcome of branching interactive stories and can pause, rewind and fast-forward through all on-board content.
Also on the subject of control, it's interesting to mention that Mr. Personality features a couple of Function Control buttons, which can be used in order to access the alarm clock feature, the time function, the greet mode, the stand-by mode, the Meny, the Memo function and, finally, the Demo function.
In order to help it better interact with humans, the device has been equipped with several sensors, namely a sonic sensor, four IR sensors for detecting and avoiding obstacles, flinch response, and Greet Mode, 1 light sensor used in order to detect and respond to changes in ambient light levels as well as a tilt sensor that allows Mr. Personality to know exactly when it's fallen down and when it's been picked up.
Furthermore, the robot features no less than 7 different built-in electric motors, which help it carry out all of the functions mentioned above. Plus, the robot also packs a microphone, SD memory card slot, 64 MB of internal memory, all of these components being powered by a rechargeable battery that can be juiced-up via an AC adaptor.
WowWee Mr. Personality retails for just around 300 US dollars, which is quite an OK price point, given just how cool this thing could prove to be around the house.
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