After receiving DoS (Denial of Service) attacks from hackers and whatnot, we’ve decided to permanently place the Math Comments Plugin. Basically, robots won’t be able to waste any of our server’s precious time and bandwidth. I’ve seen almost zero SPAM comments on our other blogs such as Bedzine Mattress Store and Keetsa Mattress Store after this plugin was installed along with Trackback Verification plugin.

What does it do?

Well, you gotta be good in math or at least be able to add numbers. Until the spammers figure out how to do math, we should be okay and have less problems with our bandwidth.

Sorry for non-spammers out there, you will have to do a little math to comment but no big deal right?

For hackers, bring ‘em on! We love your challenge. We are ethical hackers and will spam, and hack you back 10 fold so… watch who u messin’ with, b**tch!  (We have a spam and DoS attacking machine here at Zedomax.com to counter-attack DoSers.)

Could this robot that has been designed to be like a servant, become the terminator of the future, we have all seen the film! However at the moment the robot is being taught to handle delicate items without damaging them.

The Twendy One robot is five feet tall and weighs 111 kg; there are four fingers on each hand, cameras for eyes and speaker for speech. It is able to take things out of the fridge, toast from a toaster and put it on a plate.

It will be available in 2015 and will cost between $100,000 and $200,000, so who wants one of these sitting in the kitchen?

Source [New Launches]

This is the future for all of those unwanted typewriters, yes that is right all those old typewriters that have been abandoned by their owners and left in cupboards and basements are evolving into terminators.

Or maybe it is just a piece of artwork which just happens to use all of the old components from a typewriter that was left lying around, it looks pretty cool and is an excellent use of an old piece of equipment.

I still prefer the first explanation!

Source [Engadget]

It’s that time of year when all of those funny Christmas ideas come out, some of which will see a whole host of gadgets that do all sorts of things, but very rarely do anything useful.

The Think Geek Snowbot Features:
USB Powered (for great justice!)
Scanning LED Robotic Eye
Rate of sweeping is controllable via knob
Selectable LED Robotic Eye Colors (Blue or Red)
Authentic Snowbot Sound (on/off switch)
Rotating, articulating metal arms
Coiled (12″) USB cable extends to 30″

This is a nice but almost useless gadget which serves not purpose other than to have a good laugh while at your desk.

Priced at $9.99

Source [Think Geek]
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/cubegoodies/854a?cpg=cj

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Cool, someone made a Lego NXT Fireworks Robot!

This autonomous NXT robot will light multiple fireworks in a sequence - while the family sits back and watch the display!!

It uses a MINDSTORMS NXT, two light sensors (one for navigation and other to detect a lighted fuse) and an Ultrasonic detector (to adjust the torch arm height depending on the height of the fireworks fuse wire. It uses three motors - two for motion and and the third for the torch arm elvator.

via HackedGadgets

Wow…. that’s kinda cool if it works without hackers like me hacking it…

The vending machine has an “adult recognition” button, and when this is pressed a tiny camera takes a photo of the customer and analyzes certain features such as wrinkles and sagging around the eyes and mouth as well as the frame of the potential buyer’s body to determine a general age.

In a test with 500 people ranging in age from their teens to their 60s, this software was able to identify adults with 90% accuracy.

Distinguishing teenagers from twenty-somethings is more difficult. So when the software cannot make a judgment call, the customer needs to insert a license to prove their age. If the machine can make a match with the license photo, it will sell cigarettes.

via HackedGadgets

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Wow, check out this instructable on HOWTO make your own 360 degrees panoramic photo-bot!

this is my 360 panoramic photo robot, the idea is shooting in 360 degrees in the smaller time as possible without errors, take the panoramic in a hard conditions and fun!.

this project i take a 1 month and i am implementing improvements, and i use parts of bad cd-roms and hard disk drives.

i hope that it serves to construct your own robot or can leave ideas for another project.

via Make

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Check out this tight ass hexapod robot from MicroMagic systems! Very cute.

The hexapod was my fourth generation robot, and took around 2 weeks to build, the hexapod locomotion engine has been developed on and off over a couple of years. The face recognition software was based on OpenCV libraries, integration of face recognition into the i.C. hexapod face tracking took around 1 week, but with several weeks of fine tuning and enhancements.

A bit of technical background:

i.C. has an on board processor I have developed called the p.Brain, this takes care of all body leg and body locomotion. The p.Brain runs on a PIC ds33F processor.

There is an off board Windows XP Mini-ITX based PC with a Pentium M 1.73Ghz processor which takes care of the face recognition and tracking. This PC is connected to the p.Brain via a serial link. Only simple commands such as X,Y and Z rotation of the head and body are sent to the p.Brain from the PC. This means that if the PC crashes (which they so often do!) The p.Brain will put i.C to sleep without damaging any of the servos.

There are 21 servos on i.C. hexapod. 3 degrees of freedom for each leg, 2 for head pan and tilt, and one which acts as a blink shutter for the main lens. i.C. blinks when a picture has been taken, pictures are stored locally with the time data and location they were taken, and also uploaded to a server for his website (still under development).

via HackedGadgets

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Check out these robotic self healing chairs. I think I’ve seen the video before but here it is again…

Kinda nifty when you are prone to breaking a lot of furniture because of your bad temper or clumsiness. (I, am on the clumsy side…)

via rafaello