 Aside from being fully playable, these nifty Tetris and Breakout machines “encourage you to deposit coins in exchange for games.” Avalable now, priced at $39.90. Video after the break.
[via Technabob] Popularity: unranked [?] Popularity: 1% [?]  Say what you want about robots being our future overlords and all that, but we think they’re really just here to boogie. I mean, if all you wanted to do was get your groove on but some engineer kept programming you to scare prisoners or little kids, you might go looking for a little payback too, right? Thankfully there’s MechRC, a 17-servo kit newly available in the Americas that, despite his menacing visage, should do wonders to soothe human-robot relations through a vast array of funky moves. Thanks to what looks to be some easy to use (though sadly not Mac compatible) software, would-be robo-choreographers of nearly any age should be able to sharpen their teeth here, and while $599 isn’t exactly impulse-buy territory, that’s considerably cheaper than many of the other robot kits we’ve covered before — and some of them can’t even shake their tail feather! MechRC sure can, just check out the “Evolution of Dance” homage after the break. Judson Laipply, you just got served! Continue reading MechRC is here to dance, not enslave Filed under: Robots MechRC is here to dance, not enslave originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Popularity: unranked [?] Popularity: 1% [?]
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Caption contest: cat driving Roomba — is not so impressed, actuallyPosted by: in RebotsThis is one nonplussed feline, folks. No, he doesn’t mind zooming around on the Roomba all day for the humans to videotape, upload to YouTube and laugh at around “the office” all day. Sure, he’ll humor you, go ahead and caption — capshun, if you will — him until you’re blue in the face. He’ll have the last LOL. Oh yes, he will.
Josh F.: “The perpetual cat-hair, spot-cleaning cycle ultimately spelled doom for this unlucky Roomba, much like tic-tac-toe did in WOPR in 1983.” [Via bookofjoe] Filed under: Robots Caption contest: cat driving Roomba — isn’t so impressed, actually originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Popularity: unranked [?] Popularity: 1% [?]  Priced at $100, this fake iPhone clamshell phone from China features a “.3MP camera, a 2.6-inch screen with a 240 x 320 resolution, the capability to play mp3s and mp4s and some ‘built-in’ games.” Click here for first picture in gallery.
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Rovio owners have been able to control their all-seeing sentry bot from their iPhone (or any other internet-connected device) from day one using WowWee’s browser-based interface, but one enterprising individual apparently found that a tad lacking for his taste, so he decided to take things one massive step further by building his own full-fledged iPhone / iPod touch app. In addition to giving you a bigger view of the Rovio’s webcam feed, the app achieves the inevitable by letting you use the iPhone or iPod touch’s accelerometer to control the Rovio, which should let you give your Wiimote a rest for a while. Superior still, the app is free — you know where to get.
Filed under: Robots New app turns iPhone / iPod touch into Rovio controller originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Popularity: 1% [?]  For $3,000 on eBay, you could pick up an Xbox 360 racing seat made from a real Ford F1 automobile. According to the seller, “it probably could be updated to a newer game console if desired.” Auction page. Click here for first picture in gallery.
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Moshi’s IVR Alarm Clock accepts voice commands, harbors own primary directivesPosted by: in Rebots The Moshi IVR (Interactive Voice Responsive) Alarm Clock is a chatty one. Instead of those perfectly reasonable physical buttons which have been providing us with additional five minute segments of sleep since time immemorial, the Moshi IVR wants to talk you through your morning. To activate a command, just say “Hello Moshi.” Moshi will most likely mutter something threatening under its virtual breath, and then ask you “Command Please,” to which you can instruct the clock to tell you the time, set the alarm, inform you of the temperature and a bunch of other things. Sounds great, and we doubt Moshi will be able to murder you in your sleep without any life support systems or pod bay doors under its dominion, but we still fear the prospect of attempting to reason with a too-smart-for-its-own-good alarm clock during one of those dreaded “before noon” hours of the day. Moshi IVR is available now for $50. Filed under: Household, Robots Moshi’s IVR Alarm Clock accepts voice commands, harbors own primary directives originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Popularity: unranked [?] Popularity: 1% [?]  At $29,900 on eBay, this wooden car from 1952 features an engine that uses “two sets of pistons mated at the flywheel inside a single engine block that was capped by a single head casting.” Auction page. Click here for first picture in gallery.
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Robot ticketer greets amusement park visitors, offers frightening glimpse of the futurePosted by: in Rebots
Manufactured by NEC, this new FeliCa payment terminal (seen here at iEXPO 2008 in Tokyo) is designed for amusement parks, arcades, or any place where a whimsical touch-screen device might trick you into spending more money than you normally would. And if handing control of your e-wallet to an android wasn’t bad enough, in addition to selling tickets and dispensing data the device boasts integrated facial recognition for identifying and profiling park visitors — a feature to be used for determining your demographic information and pointing you towards appropriate “amusement,” such as a restaurant for Ma or a wave pool for the kiddies. What could possibly go “worng,” you ask? Have you even seen Westworld?
Filed under: Robots Robot ticketer greets amusement park visitors, offers frightening glimpse of the future originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Popularity: unranked [?] Popularity: 1% [?]  NASA’s next generation ejection seat system “delivers half a million pounds of thrust — which will mean the astronauts in the escape automobile will have to last G-force of several times a standard Shuttle launch.” Video after the break.
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