Tag: Robots
Aluna Tidal-Powered Clock
To emphasize the renewable resources of ocean currents, the Aluna Tidal Powered Clock display consists of LEDs powered by ocean turbines. A prototype is underway, with intent to establish mirror images of the final in the northern and southern…
DIY: Hand Crank Lego USB Charger
It's not exactly free energy, but if you build your own USB hand-crank charger you can sit around watching Big Brother while absent-mindedly cranking power into your digicam or iPod. It does require a motor from a Lego Mindstorms…
Mousepad Couch made literally from mousepads
It's the wee hours of Christmas evening and we'd like nothing more than to stretch out on this couch made entirely of mousepads, but we're stuck typing away for your amusement, mousepadless (it's true, there's no mousepad in the…
Books On Demand Machine
It's about damn time the Books on Demand Machine has actually come to pass, and at only $50,000 USD per unit, we can expect to see them pretty much everywhere. They can print books of up to 550 pages,…
LifeShirt measures how much of a life you have
Detecting pulse, respiration, galvanic skin response, and dozens of other physical effects, the LifeShirt by VivoMetrics is a vest that lets people who need to have their vibes monitored have a comparatively normal life. Instead of conveying whatever you…
Memory Ball and Alarm Clock
The Memory Ball Alarm and Radio is cool because it uses a giant magnet to change the stations, period. It has a crisscross on top which is not used to swap murders, but to change the channels on the…
Ripmax Sabre Ready to Fly RC Electric Helicopter
This time of year, normally I'd be recommending you fly the Ripmax Sabre Ready to Fly RC Electric Helicopter in a nearby school gymnasium to give you the sensation of outdoors without the cold, but heck, with a green…
Will it Blend? in the Blendtec Total Blender, probably
Tired of his unchicly white iPod, Blendtec CEO Tom Dickson decided to test, Will it Blend?, in his Total Blender. Short answer, yes; long answer, the remains of the iPod, within the blender, are being auctioned on eBay for…
Tempbot looks for love, finds only Best Overall Film
The No Spot Film Festival is done by venerable internet advertising purveyor AdCritic (which you may remember as, for a brief shining time, a repository of television ads which made it one of the coolest sites online, before it…
Solar powered Mars Explorer Kit
While this is not the Luna City nor the jetpack I've been asking Santa to deliver this Christmas, the Solar powered Mars explorer kit gives the illusion of being involved with space travel while actually teaching about how to…