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Amazon is selling the Audio Technica ATH-AD700 for only $86.63 shipped, originally priced at $249.95. Featuring “a lightweight honeycomb aluminum casing and magnesium frame structure, these open-air headphones produce no sense of pressure on the ears, offering a completely natural listening experience.” Product page.
The sound is smooth and relaxed, with deep resonating bass and vocal projection. The self-adjusting wing support automatically adjusts to your head size for easy-wearing listening comfort. A straight cord at the left earpiece terminates to a mini plug with included 1/4″ adapter.
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The Blood Energy Potion, available now from ThinkGeek, “has many of the same nutrients of the rubicund liquid we love to consume (iron, protein, electrolytes, and caffeine) and has a delectable fruit punch flavor.” Continue reading for a stomp test, testing the packaging’s durability.
And it comes in resealable, transfusion-style pouches to remind us of the real substance we all lust for (and for fun). Blood Caffeinated Energy Potion - drinking blood isn’t just for the undead anymore!
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Why confine your nerdy sloth to your living room, where huge robots mime fake guitar and serve you sloppy mixed drinks? Take that zest for the sedentary life with you on the road by having one of your robot ninjas steal this iPhone Rock Band robot from its ingenious creator, Joe Bowers. The Arduino-based device uses ambient light sensors to detect the falling notes and then taps out the music with some conductive foam attached to some squeaky fake fingers. Joe did a fairly detailed write-up, and even uploaded his code, so there’s presumably nothing stopping you from actually doing something with your life and building one of these with all that free time you’ve saved up by hacking your way through all the console-based guitar games. Video is after the break.
[Via Daily Mobile]
Continue reading Laziness on the move: robot plays Rock Band on the iPhone
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Laziness on the move: robot plays Rock Band on the iPhone originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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If we’ve said it once, we’ve stated it a thousand times, stop trying to make robots into “friendly companions!” MIT must have some hubris stuck in its ears, as its labs are back at it with what looks like Clippy gone 3D, with an extra dash of Knight Rider-inspired personality. What we’re talking about here is a dashboard-mounted AI system that collects environmental data, such as local events, traffic and gas stations, and combines it with a careful analysis of your driving habits and style to make helpful suggestions and note points of interest. By careful analysis we mean it snoops on your every move, and by helpful suggestions we mean it probably nags you to death (its own death). Then again, the thing’s been designed to communicate with those big Audi eyes, making even our hardened hearts warm just a tiny. Video after the break.
Continue reading MIT’s Affective Intelligent Driving Agent is KITT and Clippy’s lovechild (video)
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MIT’s Affective Intelligent Driving Agent is KITT and Clippy’s lovechild (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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For $5,998 on eBay, you could buy a Microwaved Wii, which was “created through the unique art of microwaving by one of the most prominent entertainers and artists on the web.” Auction page. Video after the break.
Kenny Irwin originals are projected to only increase in value as a collectors items and museums and media take notice of the world renowned art by Kenny Irwin that is unlike anything the world has seen before.
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Fuji Heavy Industries in Japan has announced what it’s calling ‘the first’ autonomous
farming robot. This bot, which is about six and a half feet long and runs on gas, sends and receives
laser signals to orient itself by way of reflective plates put each 30 feet, using them to judge distances. This bad boy can grow fruits and veggies all by its lonesome, and can even operate in a greenhouse. The farming
robot — which is expected early next year — will run about $100,000, but we’d suggest you purchase two so he has the ability to have a buddy.
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Fuji Heavy Industries outs friendless, autonomous farming robot originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Currently at $59,000 on eBay, this rare Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 V-Spec II was originally released in Japan during August 2000 and is one of the few to make it to North America. This model “has increased stiffness in the suspension (even stiffer than the original V-spec) and had more massive brake rotors on the rear.” Auction page. Click here for first picture in gallery.
The seats were also made with black cloth rather than the gray cloth used on previous R34 GT-R models, and the amber turn lenses were replaced with white versions.
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It’s been a while since we’ve seen a humanoid robot this size do anything very new or interesting — mostly they seem busy with their slow-mo dance moves — but the new ROPID bot by Tomotaka Takahashi, the man behind Panasonic’s Evolta bots, not only has a few new tricks up its plastic sleeves, but has personality to spare. The bot can rotate its upper torso, which seems to help immensely in keeping it balanced while jumping, running and skipping around. It’s still the tried-and-true “bent knees” method of balance, but ROPID is “rapid” enough to make it look nearly lifelike. The movements are expressive enough, but with some slightly articulated hands and a moving mouth, ROPID ups the adorable-ness factor over some of its nuts and bolts counterparts. ROPID can also respond to a few voice commands and talks as well. Takahashi designed and built the bot himself, which makes us wonder what we’ve been doing with our lives that’s so-very-important for the past couple of decades. Video of ROPID in action is after the break.
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Continue reading ROPID the adorable humanoid can jump 3-inches into the air, sweep you off your feet
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ROPID the cute humanoid can jump 3-inches into the air, sweep you off your feet originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Created by Taiwanese designer Yu-Ying Wu, the “Breathing Chair” is a strange-looking furniture piece comprised of foam plastic that compresses “into the shape of an armchair when someone sits in it and spring[s] back into a cube when they stand up.” Continue reading for a news segment.
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Sometimes, parking might seem simple enough, but a slight distraction could mean disaster, like falling through the oil change shop’s floor or destroying your own automobile for example. Continue reading to see them all — some courtesy of Telegraph.
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