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Robots might be super effective and helpful, but they just look so un-huggable. These Biomimetic Soft-Bodied “Gummi Bots” seem so much more cuddly, and certainly more agile. Though, Gummi’s have more of a purpose then looking adorable. Metallic robots are often limited in movement by their clumsy joints. This robotics project at Tufts University is looking into a flexible, silicone ...

There’s nothing worse than throwing in your favorite movie and watching it half way through only to have it skip and freeze at the most critical point. At this point you would go and try to clean the disc, only to find deep scratches that could only be repaired by buying a new one. VenMill believes they have found the ...

You’ve got to give it to them, Chinese companies these days are just commercializing phones that we’ve all just dreamed of at some stage. We had the Nokia N73 clone — Nokir E828 that packed an even larger touch screen with a decent camera at an unbeatable price; we had a cigarette pack incorporated to a phone. Today we came ...

Back in mid-March we brought you leaked pics of the SonyEricsson M610i series. Above is a leaked photo of the Elena model, another addition to the Sofia and Maria devices. The M610i will showcase a 3.2 megapixel camera with auto-focus, QVGA 2.6″ TFT display (320×240 pixels) and 160MB of internal M2 memory. — Andrew Dobrow Link

Sources are saying that Microsoft might be giving up their dreams of the Zune posing heavy competition with the iPod and have moved on to brighter pastures. While Zune sales still remain moderately okay on the whole scheme of PMP products, the Zune has proven to be a disappointment as many predicted. It’s being rumored that Microsoft is working on ...

Here’s a gadget for anyone counting down the seconds until Bush is out of office, which is about 70% of you if recent approval rating polls are accurate. With the upcoming 2008 election looming ahead and campaigns already in full force, there’s nothing like a nice reminder to keep you chugging through the current administration. Bush has something like 600 ...

Uh oh, we all know how Microsoft loves to be in control of everything. And in VoIP and Internet telephony, Microsoft has lagged behind the likes of Skype. When it was rumored that Microsoft was working on a VoIP phone, it wasn’t a surprise, and seemed rather uneventful. Now that details are starting to appear of the Microsoft Roundtable phone, ...

Mixing the best of natural genetics and robotic technology, Thomas Edwards created this totally horrifying “Robo Baby”, which is more like a baby head on a robot. Sure, it might be “art”, but why the hell put the head on top of a weird quad-legged body? If we saw this thing crawling along our floor, we would be screaming like ...

Here is a product of an item that showcases the overuse of geekiness. The Darth Duck Fadar is a totally useless flashing rubber ducky which glorifies such habits as placing blinking electronics in water. Not a good idea under any other circumstance. Evil ducky’s seems to be the new black. The Darth Duck starts blinking LED illumination lights when the ...

Desktop PC’s have been a foundation of everyday life for most people for over a decade now. If you were to do a case study of computers and their hardware history, one fact remains a constant. Hardware just keeps increasing work capacity, while also decreasing in physical size. With the ever growing explosion of laptop sales and the ever shrinking ...