Diversions
These robots aren’t just some animatronic dance troupe from an amusement park; no, these machines can actually judge if they’re a step or two behind the rest of the dancers and catch up.
Last weekend at Maker Faire Bay Area, electrical engineer Jeri Ellsworth unveiled the next revolutionary piece of technology: the Commodore 64 bass keytar.
When I woke this morning to find a funky-looking 24-key Moog synthesizer staring at me from just above Google’s homepage search box, I knew exactly what I’d be writing about.
In a boon for burger fans everywhere, impatiently tapping our ketchup bottles might be a thing of the past thanks to something called LiquiGlide.
Walking! It takes so much effort, lifting one foot after the other. That’s why the good people of Honda have developed the Uni-Cub.
Here we have nearly seven minutes of Alan Rickman preparing tea, with an irrational outburst beginning at the four-minute mark when he apparently notices that someone’s watching him.
Just think of the endless possibilities you’d have at your disposal if you owned a vehicle “that glides over land and water yet also soars in the air up to 70 mph with the aid of integrated wings.” That’s what Hammacher Schlemmer is promising with the $190,000 flying hovercraft.
The world’s best and brightest created the Internet, cracked the human genome and landed machines on Mars. Also, someone created a robotic butt.
Sometimes, getting drunk is just too much work. Thank goodness someone has finally invented a product that allows you to sit back, spray some liquid into your mouth and bam! — instant drunken stupor.
Remember when playing with Transformers took something called “imagination?” No more! Soon Transformers — err, I mean Brave Robots — will do all the work themselves.
Cocorobo is the new robot from Sharp that will finally allow you to become friends with a household appliance.
