WowWee Rovio Enabled Robotic WebCam

Rovio is currently $159 at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/WowWee-Rovio-Enabled-Robotic-WebCam/dp...

I don't know how much longer I can hold out before clicking the buy button.

[Edit:] After reading the product reviews, the Rovio appears to have a number of issues (i.e. poor battery life, poor video) Does anyone on HN have one of these?

I got three of these. I need controllers like I need a hole in my head but hey, they are really really cute. A bit of trouble with the release that was on them but downloaded and burned in the latest and they were fine. Sadly no, I have not yet put them on a meter but will when they are near such a setup.

Something that sets these apart from the Raspberry Pi are that they full of easy access I/O, and two the Cloud9 IDE.

It is insanely fun to write javascript code in a browser talking to this thing wirelessly and have it do stuff. For me who likes to do mobile robots this is the really really great. I've got one of the old Rovio telepresence [1] things (its a mobile base with a Web cam and a WiFi link) and this board is going to be its new brain. The angstrom distro on it is very similar to the distro that the Chumby came with only a bit more stuff (Python, yay!).

The HDMI output is ok (its not 1080p so don't even think you're going to do XMBC on this thing) but nothing to write home about.

One USB port so get a hub, but on the plus side you can provide you own 5V power supply and that means you don't need a powered hub (unless you're trying to run high power peripherals). The Logitech Unifying receiver works well if you want to add a keyboard and mouse in one plug. (Now if that Unifying Reciever did WiFi it would kick butt)

All in all I think its a really good board. Nice mix of features. It will put pricing pressure on the Arduino Due I suspect.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/WowWee-Rovio-Enabled-Robotic-WebCam/dp...