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Follow the Leader AI Robots That Will Freak You Out
"Robots may not invade anytime soon, but there's no denying that they're getting smarter. The ball-shaped ApriAlpha uses advanced voice-recognition technology to distinguish between voices coming from different locations. When Alpha hears a voice, it fixes its steely digital-camera eye on the person speaking. The taller ApriAttenda can identify a person in a crowd by the color of his clothes and shape of his body, and then follow its target. It even bleeps when it loses track of its subject" - T…
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Face it: Your iPod docking station isn't cool enough for your Mom.
From the Geneva Website:
At Geneva Lab, we are motivated by the clear passion to hear music as recording artists intended. In a single stunning wood cabinet, Geneva embodies many capabilities. It’s pure digital design with advance…
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Geneva Sound System XL: Much Cooler Than Your iPod Docking Station
You laugh now, but these are your kids in the future.
"Sixty years after Little Boy and Fat Man obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the cultural fallout is still fueling Japan's exploding neo-pop art movement. Check out Kenji Yanobe's collection of whimsical doomsday gear like Yellow Suit - radiat…
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Mini Atom Suits and Tanking Machines - Osaka Art Exhibit
I want one of these for work.
"Sixty years after Little Boy and Fat Man obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the cultural fallout is still fueling Japan's exploding neo-pop art movement. Check out Kenji Yanobe's collection of whimsical doomsday gear like Yellow Suit - radiation-safe attire for childr…
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Giant Torayan: Dressing for Doomsday Exhibit - Osaka
I've already got this on order.
"Sixty years after Little Boy and Fat Man obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the cultural fallout is still fueling Japan's exploding neo-pop art movement. Check out Kenji Yanobe's collection of whimsical doomsday gear like Yellow Suit - radiation-safe attire for chil…
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Kenji Yanobe's Radiation Sage Attire For Children and Dogs
MIT is pushing to develop the world's first $100 laptop... What else? It's powered by a crank handle so you can use it even where there's no power. The goal is to empower the third world through a new program called One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
From the MIT Website:
Please note that the $100 laptop…
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$100 Laptop: An MIT Quest to Empower the 3rd Worlds
For all of us pet owners who have had that Paris Hilton moment, Nokia has created the perfect gadget--a global pet finder that text-messages your pet's location to your cellphone if it strays too far away.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
For Global Pet Finder
Q: Will GlobalPetFinder harm my p…
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Global Pet Finder
Made to make any jet-setter's heart race, Samsonite's new X'Lite Black Label range is built to inspire envy and withstand airline incompetence. The composite exoskeleton, made from an innovative synthetic material called Curv, can put up with even the most brutal treatment and still come out lookin…
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Samsonite Black Label X'Lite Luggage
Taylor Made's new Monza Corza putter makes cheating on the green legal. The removable weighted cartridges allow you to customize the club to fit specific conditions. If there are fast greens ahead you can cut the weight to slow the ball, and if there are slow greens ahead you can add weight for a …
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Taylor Made Monza Corza Rossa Putter
As every winter sport aficionado knows, snowmobiles fall into two groups: those that can haul ass and those that can turn. The Ski-Doo MXZ has a ski in both camps. The high-powered Rotax engine, a unique twist on two-cylinder stability, gives it all the oomph you need to make it up the steepest sl…
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Ski-Doo MXV Kick-Ass Adrenaline Snowmobile
Yes, I know chimps aren't monkeys. But you know what? When you're sitting at home wishing you had an animatroic chimp bust to play play connect four, I'll be laughing. You know why? Because I'll already have one. For just $149 to get my very own robot monkey (chimp).
"Now this is a real robot. S…
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Animatronic Chimp Bust: A Robotic Monkey to Make You Happy
Remember the decade where people wanted to cram all sorts of devices onto their watches? Well here's a device that would have been a big hit back then. Indian company Telson has introduced the TWC 1150 camera watch phone.
Yep, its a wrist watch first then a phone second, and a digital camera third…
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Telson Camera Phone Watch
Listen up you video-game-playing hooligans, DARPA and the U.S. military are at it again trying to impress us, the video game playing community, with badass mech jobbers like this. This is the Berkeley lower extremity exoskeleton (Bleex). The Bleex 1 has been in the works for a while and it seems the…
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Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton: Giving Soldiers a Boost
Toyota has come up with the ultimate toy--a four-wheel personal transportation system that looks like a space-age car. Chief engineer, Yoshiaki Kato, says that it was designed to be an extension of the human body. It is powered by lithium-ion batteries and has an exterior made of biodegradable, pl…
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Toyota i-unit Four-Wheel Personal Transportation Space-Age Car (VIDEO)
Out of Tokyo comes the news that a Japanese watchmaker has created the flimsiest clock in the world. This is not only the flimsiest digital clock to be created in the world but also the thinnest. It is as thin as camera film and can be bent to attach to the curve of a wall.
This cool gadget is only…
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