According to Heinz, ketchup exits the company’s iconic glass bottles at an excruciatingly slow .028 miles per hour. In case you were wondering, that’s slower than a Galápagos tortoise, which, according the San Diego Zoo, creeps …
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Who Needs Walking When Honda’s ‘Personal Mobility Device’ Exists?
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.
Think of it as a Segway but smaller, perfect for navigating the halls of your office or moving …
‘Epic Tea Time with Alan Rickman’: Best Use of Super Slow Motion Yet?
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.
It’s almost calming in a way. Almost. The …
Navigate the Apocalypse in Style with the $190K Flying Hovercraft
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 …
Scientists Finally Create Robotic Buttocks That React to Human Touch
Technology has enriched our lives in so many ways. The world’s best and brightest created the Internet, cracked the human genome and landed machines on Mars. Also, someone created a robotic butt.
Nobuhiro Takahashi of the …
Finally, a Spray That Gets You Instantly Drunk for Just a Few Seconds
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.
via Finally, a Spray …
Transforming Robot Is More Than Meets the Eye, Turns into a Car
Remember when playing with Transformers took something called “imagination?” No more! Soon Transformers — err, I mean Brave Robots — will do all the work themselves.
According to the above YouTube video, this is Kenji …
Move Over, Roomba: Multilingual Cocorobo Can Vacuum and Talk
Roomba is great, I guess. I mean, it can vacuum your floor while you sit on the couch watching Perfect Strangers. But can it talk to you?
Cocorobo can. It’s the new robot from Sharp that will finally allow you to become …
LaserSabers: Like Lightsabers but No Whooshing and No Hitting People
Yes! Watch the above video!
Real lightsab—sorry, LaserSabers! They’re “not affiliated with Lucasfilm or Star Wars,” according to the product page, even though they’re “harnessing the power of the force.” And the music in the …
Videoconference like a Sith Lord with 3D Hologram Telepods
Skype? That’s so 21st Century. In the future, we’ll all communicate like Darth Sidious, ordering our minions around in the form of three-dimensional holograms.
The technology is called TeleHuman and it’s being developed by the …
Sharks with Laser Beams Attached to Their Heads: Dr. Evil’s Dream Comes True
Dr. Evil had one simple request to properly arm his lair – he wanted “sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads.” While his right-hand man Number Two couldn’t deliver on this rather simple setup (instead, …
Meet HERB, the Robot Butler That Knows How to Use a Microwave
People, we’ve been microwaving our own Hot Pockets for too long. It’s about time we delegated that responsibility to machines, so that we might spend our time doing more important things like watching re-runs of Wings and …