I’ve always wanted to own my own set of Transformers, but who has the room to fit an entire set of massive robots in their home, let alone a tiny apartment like mine.
But hey, I can have something even cooler. My Transformers transform into individual LEGO bricks. All you have to do is bash them around a little and POW, transforming magic. And all in a limited amount of space.
I’m not driving with you anymore. No way. I’ve had enough bruises to last me a lifetime, thank you very much. Nope, I’d like you to meet AIDA, short for Affective Intelligent Driving Assistant. Basically this little guy will take my place, and hopefully take my place as your punching bag. I’m tired of dressing as a robot anyway.
AIDA uses sensors both inside and outside of the car to create “a platform comprising of a personal robot and an intelligent navigation system that aims to bring an innovative driving experience.” So yeah… basically a robotic backseat driver. Focusing less on the waypoints and more on driver behavior, AIDA gets to know you and your car on a more personal level than some might be comfortable. Check out the demo vid after the jump.
It’s hard to keep yourself well-groomed when you’re sitting in front of a computer screen all-day. Sometimes I look in the mirror and jump make in shock. “Who the hell is that grizzly hobo staring back at me?”
This $35 USB Comb Drive gives me an excuse to perform the most basic of hygienic acts, no matter how busy I might pretend to be. Now all I need is a pube trimming mouse.
You can pretend all you want that your kid is husky or big-boned, but when it takes donuts to get him interested in science, he’s straight-up fat.
Foosball might be the greatest damn game on the planet, but that doesn’t mean it can’t get boring after years of constant play. The MaruBot Table Football set replaces the old knob-and-rod foosball table, replacing man-power with robotic intelligence.
With a set of 4 robots, 2 per team, your team is now much smaller, but that’s ok, because these little guys have much more mobility then your old plastic team. The bots are controlled by individual joysticks manned by 4 different players. So one man per one robot.
Although the temptation is so hard to bear, the Bloodbot told me personally that if you’re a good boy, it’ll try not to stab you in your face with its needle.
Bloodbot was made to give nurses more time to read their gossip rag magazines and to swoon over the new hunky residents. Those five minutes of patient interaction was just a bit too hard on their feet. So, if you already have a fear of shots, get ready to add a fear of robots into the mix.
Somehow, someway, iFixIt has manged to get their hands on a iPod Nano 5th Generation (yeah, that’s the new one with the video camera announced at the “It’s Only Rock and Roll” event). And what did they do once their grasp was tight on the device? What else? They took the thing apart and photographed its innards.
Check out these excellent hardware porn photos of the guts of the new 5th Gen Nano. Warning: This is NSFW if you work in the company of robots.
None of this photo-trickery or CGI bullshit. This awesome Bumblebee costume is 100% the real deal.
Watch for yourself, about halfway through the video, the costumed dude squats down and morphs into a fricken Chevy Camaro lookalike. I’m so finding a way to get a hold of this ensemble by Halloween.
Disney has already scooped up Marvel and their massive catalog 5,000 comic book characters. But what if Disney moved onto greener pastures and started scooping up toy companies as well? If Hasbro was picked up by Disney, we might start seeing plenty of more toys like this.
The Donald Duck Transformer is both nightmarish (as you contemplate the possible future) and actually, sort of, dare we say, neat? Your second favorite animated duck (because everyone loves Daffy) starts out as an average Bug mobile. But make this duck angry and you’ll feel the unmitigated wrath of pure animated robot rage.
No, that isn’t just the work of some handy alliteration. Although, this post does happen to be brought to you by the letter “R.”
The Fuamen Ramen restaurant in Nagoya, Japan is manned by a team of robots who expertly prepare the customers’ bowls of noodles. The owner claims that the benefits of using robots are the consistency of taste and the accuracy in their timing. Just wait until they start adding nuts and bolts to the recipe. Check out a vid and the finished product after the jump.
