This cuddly lion from the WowWee “Alive” line of robot animals, displayed at CES 2008, is no available for pre-order (due to be released August 21).

Realistically textured and patterned fur combined with an animated face and advanced touch and tilt sensors deliver a highly authentic lion cub robot that is extremely sensitive to your interaction.

Pick up your lion cub by the scruff of the neck, for example, and watch your WowWee robot go limp in your hand, just like a real lion cub when its pick up by its mother. Left alone your pet lion automatically shuts off and goes to sleep.

Here’s a video clip of the WowWee Alive Lion in action:

Features:

• Realistic patterned, textured fur
• Animated mouth and blinking eyes
• Touch and tilt sensors
• Advanced interaction
• Life-like sound response include purr, mew and yowl
• Automatic sleep mode
• 1 motor
• 1 speaker
• 1 tilt sensor
• 2 touch sensors
• Micro-Controller with recorded LION CUB sounds

You can pre-order the WowWee Alive Lion from the Gizoo website for £49.95 (about $98 USD).

PC Magazine has published a The 10 Weirdest Webcams article on their website today. A lot of good stuff in there. Some which have already been featured here on GeekAlerts, like the USB Big Foot Cam.

Seen above is the adorable USB Lion Webcam ($26) with glowing LED lights for eyes. A tiny cam that you easily clip onto the screen of your laptop.

Features:

• Tiny, nice and portable
• Built-in microphone
• Lens rotation for adjusting clear image
• Excellent still image capture
• Video Conferencing
• Snap shot button
• LED light
• LED lightness adjusting switch
• Interface: USB 1.1, USB 2.0 compliant
• Size: 47×25x15mm
• Weight: 73g

Specifications:

• Image sensor: CMOS sensor 1.3M
• Resolution: VGA 1280×960
• Frame Rates: Up to 30fps@320×240, up to 15fps@640×480
• Focus: 20mm to infinity adjustable
• SNR or Signal to Noise Ratio: > 55 dB
• Manual focus
• Auto white balance
• Auto electronic exposure

(Via Gearlog)