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Now, we’ve never been to this “Hall of Presidents” at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida (our parents instead taking us to real, disused dungeons and battlefields for family entertainment), but we’re thinking about heading down there today — not because the newest animatronic addition — President Barack Obama — has just been unveiled, but because his likeness is so… unlike him, so incredibly, terrifyingly creepy (and yet still impressive all the same). Yes, we’ll pop all of our closest friends’ children into the van and take a fantastic voyage down to the southern tip of our great nation just to see their reactions to this horrifying robotic educational presentation. What better way to celebrate our nation’s independence? Come to think of it… maybe our parents weren’t so bad after all. Videos of Obamatron and of the President himself recording audio for it after the break.
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Walt Disney World unveils incredibly scary, robotic version of President Obama originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Amazon has the Archos 5 250GB World wide web Media Tablet for just $279.99 shipped, originally priced at $449.99. Featuring an “ultra-thin design and a black stainless steel body, a high-resolution 5″ touch screen, combined with the horsepower of a laptop from the world’s first implementation of the ARM Cortex superscalar microprocessor.” Product page.
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As gadgets have grown more plentiful, many have developed reputations for putting novelty over function. These creations, like the Condiment Gun (above), aim to add some innovation. Click here to see more.
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Drawing faces is hard; and as kids suckled at the teat of MTV we posses neither the patience nor the discipline required to learn the skill. So envision our surprise to discover the Self-Portrait Machine, a device that snaps your photo and then forces you to draw your own face by dragging your bound hands around until the portrait is complete. Jen Hui Liao’s project is the result of an observation that “our personal identities are represented by the products of the man-machine relationship.” So it’s like art and the intersection of philosophy… only it’s not — it’s just a robot too lazy to make the portrait itself. See the video after the break.
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Video: Self-Portrait Machine binds your hands then bends your will originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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UAVs (or NAVs — Nano Aerial Automobiles — as they’re also known), but none quite like the robo-hummingbird that’s been in development at DARPA-contractor AeroVironment for the past couple of years. While we haven’t heard much about it during that time, the company recently finished its most advanced prototype to date, dubbed Mercury, and it’s taken advantage of the opportunity to show off all the progress it has made. As you can see in the video after the break, the bot is able to fly about and hover in place by mimicking the wing movement of a real hummingbird and, of course, be controlled absolutely untethered. What’s more, the firm states that the final version will actually look like a real hummingbird as well, and be able to be controlled from up to a kilometer away — even inside buildings, where a hummingbird won’t look at all out of place.
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DARPA contractor shows off tiny robo-hummingbird UAV originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Landline Television brings us “the story of the life of a First-Person-Shooter.” Most notably, trying to accomplish everyday tasks using just one hand and walking in place — there’s even a support group to boot. Continue reading to watch the video.
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Sure, these gadgets may not be the most technologically advanced, but they most certainly are bigger than their real-life counterparts. To begin, we’ve the crashed paper airplane. Click here to see more.
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Designed for search and rescue missions - which, let’s face it, are only ever one loose word away from “search and destroy” - the SCRATCHbot uses its whiskers to detect disaster survivors in inhospitable or hazardous areas. The Bristol Robotics Laboratory developed the rat-inspired people searcher over the past 6 years and now hopes to find interest for it in underground and underwater projects where vision may be impaired. Far less heroic uses are also being contemplated, such as textile inspection and implementation inside intelligent vacuum cleaners that would be able to adjust their cleaning to the particular surface they sense. Video of the new bot coming to life is after the break.
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Video: SCRATCHbot hunts like a rat for those trapped like one originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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It doesn’t have the most stylish design, but the Bagel-to-Go does make good use of an old CD spindle. It fits nicely in any bag and is perfect for the mobile warrior that loves bagels.
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