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Here's Looj, iRobot's second generation of--get this--The World's Only Gutter Cleaning Robot. Just put Looj in the gutter and operate it via remote controller. According to them, it is more efficient than the previous.
Like the Rovio, WowWee's Spyball is a Wi-Fi-enabled spycam robot. But it transforms from sorta conspicuous ball to spycam for surreptitious shots. You can connect ad-hoc via Wi-Fi or over the internet.
WowWee actually imbues its new robots with some personality: Joebot is dancing rhythm robot that responds to beats (he beatboxes!), while the Roborover explorer starts out shy and gets bolder over time. Cute.
Posted by Nick Broughall at 2:12 PM on January 6, 2009
The best thing about Mythbusters, in my humble opinion, isn't the explosions. It isn't the rockets. It isn't even Jamie Hyneman's wicked mo (although all three of those things rock). No, it's the cool stuff they build, like this robot shark they built to test whether sticking your fingers in a shark's eyes will save you from becoming fish food.
Happy anniversary, Spirit! That's right—against all odds, NASA's plucky Spirit rover has officially been on the Red Planet for five years. Its twin, Opportunity, will celebrate the same five-year milestone on January 24.
The drinkin' tinkerers over at Instructables created the Serv O'Beer to interpret a "pouring" motion with an iPhone into a real, albeit foamy, beer. What an age we live in!
Casio's 25 years of G-Shock celebration continues with a new set of characters designed by Shiro Nakano. Normally we don't pander to marketing gimmicks, but these toys might be cooler than the watches themselves.
So weird. This iRobot Packbot has a Situational Awareness Mast built-in, a surveillance system which can grow from 25 inches (63cm) to 20 feet (6m) lifting 200 pounds (90kg), on its top configuration. The mechanism is very ingenious:
Who wants to hunt some ducks? I said, WHO WANTS TO HUNT SOME DUCKS??