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Sleeping while standing just became a whole lot easier, with the Vertical Bed. Plus, “the wearer can be made impervious to the effects of the outside world through the use of noise canceling headphones and mirrored glasses.” Click here for first picture in gallery.
..the ensemble comes with an umbrella for convenient use in a variety of weather conditions. Supported by a harness that is craftily secured under the clothing.
[via Engadget]
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The Rovio — one of WowWee’s finest if we should state so ourselves — is finally ready to roam around domiciles and keep baddies at bay. First announced (and spotted) at CES 2008, this long-awaited robotic sentry is up for pre-order right now, and it comes packing a 640 x 480 webcam to stream back live video in MPEG4 format. Furthermore, it can snap stills, head out on a customized patrol route and avoid obstacles with its infrared sensor. Get ready — this sheriff’s rolling into your town next Friday for $299.95.
[Via Random-Good-Stuff, thanks Juergen]
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The new Citroen C4 robot has been unveiled, which shows that the vehicle is “alive with technology.” Continue reading to watch. Click here for first picture in gallery.
With this latest clip, make that “staying alive with technology.” Roaming the streets of New York, he’s kitted out in chrome teeth and a glitter beret, jiving out to the Bee Gees while he performs style checks in any mirrored surface and poses for photos.
[via Autoblog]
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Yes, a BlackBerry Javelin sold for a hefty $17,100 on eBay. This unreleased handset boasts “Quad Band GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), 3.2MP Camera, Hotswap MicroSD and many more new BlackBerry OS features.” Auction page. Click here for first picture in gallery.
We’re anxious to check out the BlackBerry Javelin, don’t get us wrong. But even we’ve our limits.
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Priced at a hefty $19,999 on eBay, this life-sized T2 T-800 endoskeleton stands 6-feet tall and “features blue LED lights that can be left on or flashing.” Auction page. Click here for first picture in gallery.
Sideshow Collectibles produced just 40 or so of these 6-foot chromed metal and fiberglass Terminator endoskeletons, complete with futuristic blue LED lighting.
[via Gizmodo - eBay]
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This is Robot Partner 2.0 by Slovenian artist Stefan Doepner. Recently exhibited at the 2008 ARS Electronica Festival, Robot Partner is billed as a robotic “living table installation.” The table can clumsily shuffle objects around itself using an undisclosed technology (magnets, perhaps?) and is intended to showcase the “absurdity” of “service-automation.” We’re not entirely sure what that means, but you can see for yourself after the break.
[Via Make]
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If you’ve been looking for a hands-on preview of the 2G iPod Touch, we’ve got just the clip for you after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.
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Indoor flying toys aren’t hard to come by these days, but WowWee’s hoping you’ll still be willing to drop a little bit of coin on indoor aerial supremacy. First introduced at CES, the $50 FlyTech Bladestar has helicopter-like blades for hovering, and built-in infrared sensors to avoid obstacles. You can control the Bladestar with the included remote, or stick it in autopilot mode to watch it avoid obstacles and even “push” it yourself by walking up to it. If it’s war you’re after, you can put the toy in “dogfight” mode to use the infrared signal as a weapon against an unfriendly Bladestar: three hits and you’ll be testing WowWee’s claims of crash-resistance. The Bladestar is available now. Cheesy Saturday-morning advertisement is after the break.
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We’re not entirely sure that you can call a six-legged arthropod a spider, but let’s not quibble over biology: this robot looks pretty cool. At the moment about all it can do is poise for attack and track faces using a built-in webcam (and what looks like proprietary face-recognition software), but the designers (high school students David Benhaim and Owen McGarry) assure us that they will be implementing the ability to walk — and terrify your little sister — shortly. One thing’s for sure: we wish we’d done something like this in high school (they machine-lathed the parts themselves!) instead of playing Ultima and stealing beer… but you can’t win them all. Check a video of the bot in action after the break.
Continue reading High schoolers create face-tracking spiderbot, Tom Selleck comes out of retirement
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Bike Power basically “uses magnets and a dynamo to collect energy which can in turn be used to power up your phone or other chargeable device.” Click here for one more picture.
Based on electromagnetic induction, ohm harvests, stores and converts human power into usable energy.
[via Yankodesign]
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