Starting with Thursday, the 13^th of September, and till Sunday, the 16^th of September, the worldwide famous Wired Magazine’s annual Wired NextFest exhibition will be showcasing the new brilliant ideas and technologies, as well as their creators, that will someday change our world in a positive way, hopefully. Through this exhibition inventors from all fields, such as communications, security, robotics, health, transportation, security, energy and sustainability or entertainment, are able to present in from of the interested people their new emergent ideas.

But till now, it appears that the most amazing thing from this year’s NextFest is represented by a very realistic robot. It has already attracted hundreds of people during the three days of the exhibition that takes place at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The robot, which has been already described by the Times magazine as “one of the best inventions of 2006”, has been called and even resembles Zou Renti, its inventor and the founder of the Xi’an Superman Sculpture Research Council. It can move its face and even speak, although its most impressive feature remains the skin, which has been made of silica gel and seems very lifelike.

The NextFest event has been opened on Thursday by Los Angeles’ Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa with the attendance of the entire Endeavor space shuttle’s crew and 9,000 school children. The opening has been followed by the X Prize Foundation’s announcement of being joined by Google, which will sponsor with $30 million a new lunar exploration program.