Microsoft's Kinect controller is rapidly becoming a hacker's favorite, but I'm pretty sure this is the first humanoid robot which uses a Kinect to follow every move you make.

Please tell us this is not the future of video game racing wheels. With motion controls becoming more popular this year thanks to Sony's PlayStation Move and Microsoft's Kinect for the Xbox 360, dedicated controllers for racing games are becoming extinct. In its place are plastic controller shells.

Too often concept gadgets remain concepts, doomed to forever stay as Photoshopped flights of fancy. Not so these shoes that double as an iPod controller. Thanks to a challenge on the U.K.'s The Gadget Show and the help of industrial...