With just a small wireless headset and a lot of concentration, Haier’s BrainWave TV lets users play mind-controlled video …
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WATCH: The Creepiest Singing Robot Mouth of All Time
This is not what you think it is. It’s a talking robot, modeled on the human vocal system. And hey, check it out: it can sing! Kinda.
Wait, you say. Robots can already talk. Hell, even my laptop can talk, and I got it at Walmart.
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Yes, those things can talk, but only using software and …
Parents Name Their Kid ‘Like,’ After Facebook
In a Seinfeldian example of weird baby names, a couple in Israel has taken inspiration from Facebook and named their baby daughter “Like.”
Lior and Vardit Adler fancied the idea of giving their child a unique name, Haaretz reports. Like had a nice ring to it, they decided, while also representing the age of social networking. “If once …
Time to Put Your Robot Cat Ears On
At last! Finally someone has come up with a pair of brain-controlled furry robot cat ears for the masses.
This crazy contraption is necomimi, the first experimental prototype from a team in Japan calling themselves neurowear.
It’s not just decorative. Under those fuzzy ears are sensors that monitor your brain activity. When you …
Japanese Lab Develops E-Kissing Device
Apparently not content with e-mails and video chat, a Japanese lab is trying to enhance long-distance relationships with electronic kissing.
Yeah, Kajimoto Research Laboratory’s Kiss Transmission Device looks as gross as it sounds. As demonstrated in a video from Diginfo.tv, both users hunker down in front of their respective devices, …
China Decides to Ban Time Travel
In China… well, in China, many weird things happen. The Chinese government, in another strange episode, has decided to ban time travel. Well, at least when it comes to television shows and movies.
With the way things are run, the state controls and monitors everything shown on your television or your computer. So yeah, China can …
Political Superheroes? The Bio Comics of Capital Hill
I’m not sure the world needs Al Gore: The Comic Book. But you know what, world? You’ve got it anyway.
Yesterday, Bluewater Productions rolled out more politically-themed titles of their new biography comic book series that feature political big-wigs Rush Limbaugh, Nancy Pelosi, Sonia Sotomayor and Al Gore.
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