Fans of kitsch plastic gewgaws might find this Stitch radio and CD player from Runat so far up their street it’s parked in their garage. Modelled on the Disney alien from the 2002 movie Lilo and Stitch, and most probably a tie-in for the upcoming anime series Stitch! it looks awesome with its mouth open—as you can see below.
Never heard of the Graffiti Research Lab? Well, if we tell you they were wrongly suspected of being involved in the Boston LED Mooninite mess, and their self-declared mission statement is to be “dedicated to outfitting graffiti writers, pranksters, artists and protestors with open source tools for urban communication” do you have more of a clue? A documentary is due out soon on the work of these technology-mad urban artists, and the video shows a few snippets from it. It’s pretty fascinating. We’re tempted to strap some magnets, batteries and LEDs together and start decorating boring urban steel things with glowing throwies right away. The film premieres at MoMA in New York on May 4th. [BoingBoingTV]
Yesterday saw some awesome Iron Man Haikus. Today, not so much. So, against my better judgement, I offer you my own entry into the competition:
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If you can’t beat that, I’ll probably have to keep a webcam for myself. And I don’t want to do that. So get poetic already!
The glo Pillow is an alarm clock (alarm pillow?) that wakes you up by shining a gradually intensifying light in your face for 40 minutes, until it reaches a blazing, blinding crescendo. If that sounds uncomfortable, your significant other smacking the crap out of you for smashing the snooze button every five minutes is probably worse (unless you’re into that kind of thing). [embryo via idasia via Technabob]
Is there anything ASIMO can’t do? We’ve already seen Honda’s robot extraordinaire play soccer, shake hands, dance better than us and know when it needs a recharge. Now it’s going to rub in its superiority by conducting the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
The special appearance is to raise awareness of the DSO’s music education program. ASIMO will be conducting the orchestra’s rendition of “Impossible Dream” to open the concert, although we hope that it will have the opportunity to break out a little bit of Styx’s “Mr Roboto” for some fun.
The concert happens on May 15.
The latest iPhone SDK is now available, and unlike last time, it actually comes with an awesome new feature: OpenGL ES support! Now the iPhone simulator can render OpenGL ES that “mirror behaviour on the iPhone and iPod Touch.” The ES in OpenGL ES stands for embedded systems, and is the official graphics API in both Symbian and Android as well. As a side note, Open GL ES 2.0 is also supported by the PS3 as “an official graphics API” according to Wikipedia, in case you’re playing the world’s nerdiest game of Trivial Pursuit. [iPhone]
Our friend Datamancer, steampunk modder extraordinaire, is at it again. His newest creation is this Steampunk LCD monitor, and it’s a doozy.
Before I got married, I used to joke with my fiancee that instead of getting rings made out of gold, or other expensive metals, we should find ourselves some plastic “Sha-zam!” rings that we could join together and pretend we had a Genie to fight our battles for us.
She didn’t like the idea.
So imagine what would have happened if I had proposed we invest in a pair of Cat 5 compliant wedding bands that we could jack into eachother when we were bored. My guess is that we wouldn’t be married now.
The inside of the “female” ring can be chosen from a selection of four colours: turquoise, white, orange or black. That’s four different reasons that she’d leave you, right there.
But the worst thing about these ridiculous rings – they’re sold out. So, chances are there’s going to be some lonely men with broken hearts and shattered dreams in the world tonight.
I don’t know if you follow Starbucks news, but as much as I prefer local coffeehouses, I’ve been intently watching their recent efforts to get back the soul they’ve commoditised away. Here’s their new espresso machine, the Mastrena, which they call a “high-performance Italian sports car,” set to roll out this year. It’s shorter than the ones now, so baristas can look you in the eye while they press buttons to auto-mechanically spit out your espresso.
