WowWee's Roboquad gets reviewed

Although you may expect all of WowWee's creations to start to bleed together at some point, reviewers over at PC Mag would be quick to deny such a claim, as it deemed the Roboquad a creature "unlike any toy or robot it had seen before." In a few hours of at-home testing (you know, with rambunctious children), it managed to get everyone involved and keep them from bouncing off the walls, and while controlling the critter wasn't always simple, it's "Autonomy" mode proved most exciting anyway. Overall, the Roboquad fits best into families where unusual and unique are commonplace occurrences, and if you think your offspring (or yourself, it's okay) could spend hours on end tinkering with a robot akin to a "drunken crab," WowWee's latest just might be worth your $99.

[Chris @ Jul 6th 2007 1:29PM]

I for one welcome our ... (oh enough already)

[Crayola @ Jul 6th 2007 1:47PM]

As what Borat would say... Wow Wow Wee Waa!

[Bachus @ Jul 6th 2007 1:47PM]

i got a crab drunk once...

[jmani @ Jul 6th 2007 2:05PM]

I like to play with a bearded clam...is that close enough?

[Trevor @ Jul 6th 2007 2:23PM]

Typo: it's "Autonomy" mode --> its "Autonomy" mode

[joe @ Jul 6th 2007 8:00PM]

dang, you couldn't have put parenthesis in the correction? had me reading that sentence like 7 times! jeez

[Ellianth @ Jul 6th 2007 11:05PM]

First of all.. WTF man!! I read that for 2 minutes straight. I counted the letters and it over and over again, trying to figure out what you were talking about. You wasted two minutes of my life! Stupid quotation marks. And unless the article has been edited, the way it's written is correct.

But congrats. I'm sure me and the guy above me weren't the only one who spent a while trying to figure out what you were saying. You made a fool out of me, without even trying. ;)

[Trevor @ Jul 7th 2007 12:08AM]

"And unless the article has been edited, the way it's written is correct."

No, it's not correct. "It's" is a contraction meaning "it is". But if you replace the contraction with its expansion, you get "It is 'Autonomy' mode proved most exciting anyway," which doesn't make sense.

[Error404 @ Jul 6th 2007 2:43PM]

Bleed together, or breed together?

[Baseer @ Jul 6th 2007 3:51PM]

testing, testing 1, 2 , 3....testies, testies 1, 2, 3....mic check...check 1

that is one creeping looking robot

[Jonathan @ Jul 6th 2007 4:51PM]

It's looks like a Ravager from World of Warcraft.

[Kenny @ Jul 6th 2007 5:19PM]

Its a remote control Dragoon!

[Joey @ Jul 6th 2007 6:30PM]

TRANSFORMERS! Robots in disguise.

[tekdroid @ Jul 7th 2007 12:08AM]

Using these sensors, the Roboquad, which runs on four C batteries...
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At last!
Removable batteries.

Might be time to buy those AA-to-C adaptors for the Eneloops http://www.eneloop.info

[Ernman @ Jul 8th 2007 8:59PM]

So which one was this in the Transformers movie? Was it the X Box 360 that turned in to the robot-thingy or was this a Corvette or some other GM car? A truck? Maybe it was a truck? Do you have a clip of it from the movie transforming? Was it a Decepticon?

Wait, it's just a robot? That's all it does? Huh.

[Albert van Breemen @ Jul 21st 2007 10:10AM]

What can you do with this robot? Just drive it around? Is it programmable?

Albert

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