Over at WiiWii.tv - Shiny's Nintendo Wii blog - you can now read about how to control your Robosapien (or other WowWee robot) with nothing but your wii remote and voice. This new wiimote "hack" (in the nicest sense of the word of course) is the latest in a long line of new bluetooth functionality with the controller. There's even an accompanying video to demonstrate.

Use open source software called Robodance to write custom scripts to control your robot or take control yourself using your wiimote and voice commands. You can even mix up the two techniques for more realistic actions. Best of all, it's all free. Worst of all, it's not out till February.

Head over to WiiWii now to read more about this story and other Wii-related excitements. Go on, you know want to.

And so our list (started yesterday) concludes. Here is a run-down of the top TechDigest weird gadgets of the last year... all the way to number one.

25. Solar-Powered Insect Theatre (pictured) - Okay I admit it, it's the name that got me on this one, for those of you who actually keep pet insects this won't be weird at all. For the rest of us, well we wouldn't just have one lying around that's for sure. Put the sun to good use before it collapses and warm up all your butterflies just the way you like them. Sorted.

24. In-Car Espresso Machine - We caffeine-fuelled gadget and gamer geeks all love coffee so naturally you'd want to have the option of a quick hit on long car journeys. I'm worried, however, that boiling hot liquid and driving don't mix. You can't talk on your mobile phone but making an espresso? Sure, go ahead, and make me one while you're at it.

23. Snappy Face Recogniser - I'm hopeless at remembering passwords so when I hear that I can access a computer using nothing but my pretty face I'm a happy bunny. But what if I have a bad hair day? Will it still recognise me then?

22. Power Aware Glowing Cable - I love the fact that this cable glows brighter as you use more electricity (therefore using more electricity itself) in a dire hope that you'll notice and end up using less. I'm no expert but surely there are better ways.

21. Flying Alarm Clock - Tired (pun intended) of that noisy old screech waking you every morning? Wouldn't you rather rise to the sensation of helicopter blades lashing at your eyes? Yes? Then, my friend, this is for you! The flying alarm clock sends a small propeller airborne every morning to wake you from your dreams, an accident waiting to happen.

20. Zero G Wall Climber - Hours of fun ahead with this radio controlled vehicle. When you run out of room on the floor and people are tripping over the small jumps you've fashioned from old cereal boxes then simply take to the walls! This things sticks to them better than spiderman himself. You'll be breaking picture frames and ripping wallpaper in minutes, yay!

We all love gadgets, but if there's one thing that we love MORE than gadgets it's weird gadgets. So what better way to say goodbye to 2006 than to have a run-down of the top 50 weird gadgets TechDigest brought to your attention over the last 12 months. What follows is the first part of just such a list. Enjoy.

50. The ScrollSeal Washable Mouse (pictured) - I guess my mouse gets dirty, kinda. But buying a mouse that I can then throw in the sink with the dishes isn't the first solution I'd come to for that particular problem. Besides, it's fun to scrape off the dirt when your bored waiting for your podcasts to download.

49. PC Circuit Board Lamp - This is actually quite cool and probably something I'd have in my house, but you can't argue that using discarded pieces of old computers as ornaments is a little strange.

48. Inflatable Office in a Bucket - Never leave home without your office again! Could also double as inflatable changing room, time-out area or child prison. Great.

47. Grohe Wireless Digital Shower - Our obsession with all things wireless has reached new heights when we strive to have wireless showers in our bathrooms. It's basically a remote control shower system that allows you to turn the thing on from anywhere in the house. That could really spook out any visitors actually... I want one.

46. Book Clock - Expand the look of your library and tell the time too. Why you'd want to is anyones guess but...

45. Windmill Phone Charger - I'd love to see the crazy looks you'd get from passers-by as you drunkenly hold this aloft in a desperate attempt to phone a taxi as the pubs and clubs empty. Genius.

Piled on the pounds after all those leftover Christmas turkey meals? Then you need to get yourself a pair of these. Called the Walk n' Glides, they're a set of two clip-on wheels that you can attach to any shoe and then just simply skate away. Perfect for outrunning all those folk who you missed on your card list this year.

To be honest I'm a little unsure how these on-size-fits-all skates function. The wheel-on-the-heel setup displayed makes me think that I'd fall over backwards as soon as I got on them. I'd need to see a video of someone else first (YouTube turned up no results on a quick search) but I'd definitely give them a go. Any excuse for another scar to add to the collection.

A long and weighty present sits under the tree this Christmas, you edge to it when no one's looking; they're all distracted by the Doctor Who special anyway. The gift wrap cover depicts elves and goblins, "not very festive," you think to yourself, "but I'll let it slide." The name tag dangles seductively before you eyes, you read it... it's yours! You tear away the paper and inside you find one of these: An Art.Lebedev Optimus Keyboard, just what you always wanted!

Of course, such things are fantasy. For one, we all know that you would be glued to the screen along with everyone else and, secondly, the Optimus keyboard won't be seen by you or I until Spring '07 now, despite the fact that they've been teasing us with it for some time. Shame.

As more and more gadgets are hailed as "must-own" items and sale numbers of these items grows, electricity usage is growing too. It's now estimated that electricity use - through the sales boom of such items as electric toothbrushes and cordless phones - is set to double by the year 2011. That's in just five years time.

The Energy Saving Trust, who predict this figure, are now calling for gadgets to carry warning labels, cigarette-style, detailing the amount of power each product uses in a hope that consumers will buy less electronic goods or at least more energy-efficient models. Imagine that for a minute. It can be difficult enough to chose a new mp3 player from the options already available, throw a few more values into the mix and you can just colour us confused... Then again, the eco-warrior in me thinks this is a great idea. You can never have to many numbers on a cordless phone box anyway.

As we all recover from the vast amounts of alcohol and food we all consumed over the festive period and as all our new and shiny prezzies are tidied away and put in their places (where they'll no doubt stay) we have some time to reflect on the gifts and gadgets we really, really wanted... but never got for one reason or another. Up first, the Sony PlayStation3.

If everything had gone to plan (as it is prone NOT to do in the games industry) we should all have been playing our PS3s right now; spilling mulled wine on our new blu-ray discs and realising we're out of batteries on the one day of the year when all the shops are closed. But we're not playing, and for good reason. A shortage of key components - they just can't make them fast enough - has delayed the consoles release until well into the zero seven, specifically March. Unless you're the import-type, then you'll just have to wait until then.

Geek-favourite and solar-explorer NASA has signed a deal with (also) geek-favourite and search-powerhouse Google to archive vast amounts of it's images and data online in an easy-to-search library. The plan is to make such excitement as interactive videos of the moon and Mars, as well as real-time weather visualisations readily available to the great unwashed; though it seems to be just the American public in the early stages unfortunately.

Chris C. Kemp - director of strategic business development at NASA's Ames Research Centre - says that "NASA has collected and processed more information about our planet and universe than any other entity in the history of humanity". This basically means that when the archive does launch eventually we can all expect many sleepless nights trawling though it's seemingly limitless depths... If that's your idea of a good time of course, it's certainly mine.