Wow, Hammacher Schlemmer. Your Transforming Robot Car sure is nifty. If only your 10-inch-tall dancing robot-in-disguise had a clever one-word name that encapsulated its most appealing action. While you’re at it, maybe you could write a rockin’ theme song about this guy that he could dance along to when we either ...
Sphero’s new interactive R2-D2 replica promises to break new beeping ground like no booping Star Wars toy before. We’ve sung the praises of numerous products paying homage to the galaxy’s boldest Astromech, but they all lacked a certain sense of personality this particular little guy exhibits in spades. It speaks ...
Swimming pools are a worthwhile investment, not only because they provide an opportunity to have fun swimming, exercising, and the ability to cool down on those hot days, but they also increase a property’s value. The only negative aspect of swimming pools is the chore of keeping them clean. If you don’t have a ...
Robot vacuums aren’t anything new, however, these are getting better at navigating and vacuuming around objects autonomously. Now, using Wi-Fi and an app, you can have your floors cleaned anytime you want, with the iRobot Roomba 690. The app lets you program the small vacuum robot to clean your floors anytime you ...
If you are like most people who enjoy throwing darts, you are probably not hitting anywhere near the “bulls eye” - the center of the dartboard, consistently. To do that takes a lot of practice, and a steady hand, which is not so easy when you’ve had a few drinks. Well, honestly, it feels good to hit the bulls-eye ...
Amazing new medical device can keep your heart pumping, even when it stops beating. Usually, when heart trouble strikes, and hearts fail to pump blood, very complex solutions require the use of traditional ventricular assist devices (VADs), that surgically attach to the heart to help pump blood. But, now, there is ...
Today’s children are growing up around technology like never before, and when it comes toys, anything having to do with robots is a huge ‘hit’ with kids. One toy company that is very familiar with what children like to play with is melding the old with the new, to create an educational toy that is relevant today with ...
Wonderful. Giant mech robots are here to to enslave mankind. While the world's most innovative software engineers have been making groundbreaking leaps toward increasingly intuitive artificial intelligence that evokes Skynet more unsettlingly with every breakthrough, South Korea has been pouring the rough equivalent ...
When we look at Kobi, we abandon all doubts previously held toward the ethical implications of humans marrying robots. We never truly understood what it meant to love until we met an adorable autonomous robot that mulches our garden, clears dead leaves, and blows snow into a wintery oblivion. Consider this: the ...
When we were growing up in the Halcyon toyetic days of the 1980s, we revered the kid who could perfectly imitate the noise a Transformer made when shifting from car to giant robot and back again. If our seven-year-old selves could hijack a nuclear fusion-powered DeLorean, zip ahead to 2016, and catch a glimpse of a ...
People are used to the idea of ‘traditional’ robots, even human-like robots portrayed in movies, but now, with new technologies such as micro 3D printing and pneumatic pumps, the days of the traditional robot may be over? The octobot robot, with it’s internal components built with 3D printing, is modeled after the ...
Ladies and Gentlemen, feast your eyes upon the most Japanese thing of all Japanese things. Micah Moore and Long Thai of Beatdown Boogie journeyed to Japan, courtesy of "Cloud Riders" publisher Hashtag Comics, and ventured into Robot Restaurant, an establishment that's as much an explosion of sensory overload as it ...
Prepare to add a new layer of strategy to the most pucker-inducing N-Strike missions with the only command-and-control attack unit made to make Jon Peters weep blissful tears, the TerraDrone dart launcher. Nothing quite takes the place of a supremely staged ambush. When the foam flies, we live for that moment when ...
The end to a long week brings more than just rest, it also includes chores around the house like moving the lawn. Not something to look forward too, that's for sure. If only someone could do it for your; mow the lawn. Well, thankfully, we live in a time where robots abound to do tasks we don't won't to do, or have ...
Look, if Paradise Entertainment Ltd. wants to kick-start the obsolesence of human casino card dealers, that's between the gaming dens, gaming commissions, and possibly a few employee unions. However, if you're all so intent on staffing tables with robots, JUST MAKE THEM LOOK LIKE ROBOTS, OK? I would rather get ...
Movie robots have come a very long way since their popular appearance in the mid 1950’s, but real robots like the ones so commonly seen today – drones, they’re everywhere, and their awesome fun to play with. Drone quadcopters and planes in the sky, drone boats and submersibles in the water, drones with wheal and now, ...
The superficial excitement behind Professor Heinrich Bülthoff's cable-driven parallel robot simulator may mostly surround the implications to modern film and video game production, but the product of Tübingen's Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics may yield much farther-reaching breakthroughs to ...
We strongly recommend not strapping an iPod speaker dock to the Roomba 980. This cloud-connected iRobot revolution in hands-free housekeeping may very well be just smart enough somehow call down a strategic missile strike on your prized azaleas. Look, could anyone out there really blame us for letting our ...
Force inspired folks are drooling over the latest addition to the Star Wars saga, and if the trailer shines any light on what the movie promises to be, it’s bound to be force-full of awesomeness! One of the currently trending characters in the upcoming flick - Star Wars: The Force Awakens™, is the adorable BB-8 ...
We don't dare try to account for the sum of bleeding-edge technologies that Cyberdyne wove together to give rise to SkyNet, but we really like to think that nabbing our very own heavily used, battle-scarred T-850 for somewhere in the USD$2,800 neighborhood is an utter steal. Yeah, the big guy has taken a kicking ...
If you don't snakes, charging your car is going to be a terrifying experience. Tesla Motors has become a well know company that produces innovative products such as premium electric vehicles. Electric cars need to be recharged when their batteries get low, and while most people who own electric cars don’t seem to have ...
In 1973, there was an awesome movie called ‘Westworld’, it was a sci-fi movie about a special amusement park where people could go to play cowboy for real, against android villains. It was a great movie for its time, and it’s a definite logical step to make a remake of the movie, especially now that the technology to ...
Everyone’s favorite group of robots has been portrayed in Optimus Prime and his Autobots. Whether you’re an auto enthusiast or just love some bad-ass epic robot battles, you’ve probably been blown away by the cataclysmic struggle in the latest set of films. Lucky for Transformers geeks, you won’t be seeing any end ...
Fully automated robots may not be a thing of the present, but surely when you think of robotic icons like WALL-E, KITT from Knight Rider, or the Energizer Bunny, surely your heart melts. These robots aren’t known for being perfect, they’re just cute. You’ve probably seen ads for our own versions of home-cleaning ...
Arnold Schwarzenegger may not have been the best governor of all time, but surely you remember him for his various roles. Sure he was a frozen badass in Batman & Robin. He’s even the first man to give birth on the silver screen, but you’re most likely to remember him as being the Terminator. With the fifth ...
You’re an ambassador of evergreen, the duke of dung fertilizer, the Gurkhan of grass. Everyone loves the mastery you exhibit of your lawn, so why are you still using that decades-old hose that’s detracting from the allure that is your summer paradise? Avoid unnecessary manual labor bending and fighting that old ...
Avid collector of Star Wars memorabilia? Maybe you’re just a lover of robots. Regardless of your fetish, Sideshow collectibles is creating Star Wars robots on a new scale. This R5-D4 is a sixth scale figure and measures 8.6 inches from his treads to antenna. You may not remember the glitch relative of R2-D2, but he ...
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