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Retro-lookin’ robots!

Posted on April 11, 2007 by max

Check out some of these cool retro-lookin’ robots. Although they don’t really seem all that functional, they kinda have the cool “retro” look to them.

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Color Changing Showers!

Posted on April 10, 2007 by max

Wow, check out these color changing shower heads! It seems pretty basic (probably just high intensity LEDs on top), regardless, we like the overall design and originality! I’d love to have one of these showers, it’d be really cool… (well, maybe we can hack one easy…)

Perfect for creating a dramatic accent color, or merely for it’s therapeutic effect the lighted shower head embraces contemporary style. Created by Signorini Design, the Ultra Slim show

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Cleaning Robot from Japan that even apologizes

Posted on April 10, 2007 by max

Check out this really cool robot that will even apologize to you if he/she bumps into you!

This cleaning robot from Japan can scoot around on its own, cleaning up, and features WiFi and a video camera to keep it connected to home base. It can even apologize when it detects that it’s bumped into a person. Yes, that’s good; train the robots young to fear and revere their human masters. We’ve got to watch our backs, after all.

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Tofu Robot from Japan!

Posted on April 10, 2007 by max

Check out the hilarious tofu robot. The original pictures of the tofu robots are on Flickr too. Although it’s non-functional, you can get it at spicybrown for $20. Maybe someone can hack this tofu robot to be functional… maybe serve up some tofu soup…(talking about tofu

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DIY UNDERWATER HACK – Shark Cam

Posted on April 9, 2007 by max

Check out this cool DIY on making a submersible shark camera! I’ve never gone shark fishing, well I don’t fish anything I can’t eat and big sharks don’t look like they would taste good. (But I like Tuna and all the other cool edible fish in the big ocean…)  Here’s a cool cheap way to make a submersible cam also…

Last year while shark fis

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DIY HACK – AVR Ethernet Weather Station

Posted on April 9, 2007 by max

Wow, check out this cool AVR ethernet weather station!

My original plan was to have sensors for temperature, air pressure and wind. I started a prototype and it worked very well except for the wind measurement part. I have written a separate article about it: wind-vane-ver01.shtml. I plan to improve the wind measurement hardware and add it at a later point in time.

For no

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Google bought the WHOLE country!

Posted on April 9, 2007 by max

Google buys a European country Luxemburg for 37 billion dollars! Wow, I wonder what country they will be buying next. Well, eventually a lot of small countries will have to be renamed to Googleburg, Googlece, Googland, Googrea, Googpan, Googmerica…  This is much greater than Google buying a search algorithm from an Israeli student.

This is what Larry Page told us about it: “We were looking for a new place for our Europe Headquarter

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Technological Breakthrough Sculptures

Posted on April 9, 2007 by max

Check out some of these really cool Terminator-like technological breakthrough sculptures. Although none of them are really functional, it’s a really great artwork… (I’d want one in my livingroom…) Actually, the bug robots seem like they can do stuff…

via microbotic

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David Copperfield makes Statue of Liberty Disappear!

Posted on April 9, 2007 by max

video://www.metacafe.com/watch/106318/statue_of_liberty/

This is very old but cool!

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Humanoid Robot Platforms

Posted on April 9, 2007 by max

Check out these funny lookin’ Humanoid Robot Platforms from Hubo Lab at Kaist(Korean Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, kinda like MIT of Korea).

HUBO-FX1 is the human-riding robot having 12 DOF. The development concept is that the robot can walk naturally with carrying a person or a load of 100kg, so the lower body takes after legs of human and the upper body ta

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