Tag: Robots
Fumakilla invites you to urinate on their message
Intended to improve aim as well as deliver targeted results, so to speak, Japanese bug spray Fumakilla has a new ad campaign being played out in men’s lavatories. They’ve put stickers of a fly in rifle crosshairs in the urinals. When whizzed on, the stickers, printed with a layer of heat-sensitive ink developed by Pilot Ink, change to show an advertising message. Fumakilla also has a website where you can practice in their Flash game (probably not that kind of flashing). [GT]
Heat-sensitive urinal stickers as bug spray marketing gimmick
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KUKA Robotics Titan: world's largest and strongest robot
Able to lift 1000 kilos and having a reach of 3.2 meters, the KUKA Robotics ‘Titan’ is billed as the world’s strongest robot, and has the place in the Guinness Book of Records to prove it. It has nine motors, “which together deliver the power of a mid-sized car”, and a work envelope of 78 cubic meters. Ships in the second half of January 2007. [GT]
“titan”: the world’s strongest robot (via Gizmag)
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Robots: they haven’t taken over the world yet, but they’re already capable of pouring us beer and controlling our home entertainment. If that’s not a crafty strategy for leaving us sofa-bound while they stage a cyber-coup at some point in the future, I don’t know what is.
Tech Digest Pick of the Week: 30 technology stories you should read
It’s been another busy week in the world of technology, with new phones, HDTV developments, and all manner of Web 2.0 malarkey. The stories below are my pick of the most important (ok, and occasionally the most silly) stuff we’ve covered this week.
Easy-Glider: your chariot awaits
Looking a bit like a slimmed-down Segway that joined a Swiss Army gang, the Easy Glider is the 21st century answer to the horseless chariot. You can travel via the little trailer on the back or, if you’re a lazy inline skater, you can use it to pull you around like a robotic sled dog. The Easy-Glider just won the top award at ispo Sport & Style 2007. [GT]
Easy-Glider (via Core77)
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USB EarScope shows you what's inside your ear, seriously
OK, Thanko, let’s get serious here. A Butt Cooler is strange enough, but a USB device that lets you look in your ear and then view the result on your computer? Yes, this might be a helpful tool for a doctor to see if you had an ear infection, but for home use, what good would it do you to study your own ear canal? (No, seriously, answers on a 3×5 card, please.) [GT]
USB EarScope (via Everything USB )
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Electronic Rock Paper Scissors
You are being held hostage by terrorists. The lead terrorist says you can go free if you beat him at “Rock Paper Scissors”, but your fingers have been broken. Whatever can you do? If you had the foresight to shop at Prank Place for an Electronic Rock Paper Scissors you can just whip yours out, press the button (with your nose, or maybe your cat can do it), the game will randomly display one of four pre-set patterns and the day is saved. Maybe. Seriously, when even the people selling the product call it “probably the lamest electronic game ever developed”, it’s probably the lamest electronic game ever developed. $8.89 for a pair (because having only one would be even more lame). [GT]
Electronic Rock Paper Scissors [via Nerd Approved]
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New Kodak sensor to eliminate flash?
Instead of inventing new stuff, Kodak’s decided to look at patents they already own, and they pulled out a doozy: a process to make camera sensors more sensitive so flashes may no longer be needed. Where current sensors are 2 parts green pixels to 1 part blue and 1 part red, the new process uses “clear” pixels to overall increase the sensitivity of pickup on light hitting the sensor. The first place the new tech is likely to turn up? Camphones, in 2008. [GT]
Kodak says camera sensor may eliminate flash [via Sci Fi Tech]
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Baby monitor picks up video from NASA
An elementary school science teacher from Palatine, Ill. is picking up something odd on her baby monitor. Since Sunday, one of the two channels on Natalie Meilinger’s baby monitor has been picking up black-and-white video from inside the space shuttle Atlantis. The other still lets her keep an eye on her baby. NASA has said that the feed is not coming from the shuttle directly, so it is possible the monitor is picking up the signal from somewhere. Maybe it’s her teeth. [GT]
Baby monitor picks up video from NASA [via Boing Boing]
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