Category: Weirdness
SEGA Toys EMA – a living, dancing, kissing robot to fill that empty void
Finally, a piece of SEGA hardware we can love almost as much as we loved Dreamcast – and this one is capable of loving us back.
It, or indeed, “she,” is called EMA, which stands for Eternal Maiden Actualization. “Eternal” presumably means she’s got fantastic battery life, “Maiden” is because she’s got realistically proportioned breasts she’s programmed to not mind you touching, and “Actualization” because, well, just look at the beauty!
Isn’t she lovely? She apparently has a “kiss mode” that makes her willing and actually accepting…
"Robot receptionist" dream finally made real thanks to Chinese tin-man monster
That absolutely hideous MONSTROSITY to the left there has been given the name Siasun and set to work as a receptionist in the Chinese city of Shenyang.
It/she works at the fantastically Communist-sounding “administrative examination and approval service center” in Shenyang, where it/she nods, waves and even, so it is alleged but we would have to see it to believe it, talks to businessmen…
Someone loves Microsoft enough to make a piece of Windows sushi!
For those who haven’t had lunch yet, does this Windows laptop sushi make you hungry? Or put you off your food? Om nom nom nom…
Judge orders YouTube pranksters to apologise – in YouTube video
You have to love the occasionally maverick decisions handed out by US judges.
Some crazed lawmaker out in Florida has ordered a gang of unruly youths to apologise to their victim via a YouTube video, after they chucked “soda pop” at a drive-through junk food joint waitress.
Unsuspecting Taco Bell employee Jessica Ceponis…
Keeping up with the Patels – the UK's most gadget savvy surname
So, it’s no longer the Joneses with whom one must keep up in the world of gadgets. According to a survey by online consumer electronics store Pixmania, people with the surname Patel are the one’s who by the most technology products in the UK…
Mask of Emotions – you'll never need to smile again
There’s something a bit wrong about the Mask of Emotions; something altogether unsavory and I keep rolling it around my mind like I’m drinking milk that I’m beginning to suspect is off.
This LED labour-saving emotions device…
Show your CMS preference with the blogger's guide to gang-signs
Over the weekend Gizmodo ran a feature, showing ‘geek culture’ gang-signs which included Windows, Ubuntu, Linux and Apple signs. But what about gang-signs showing your preferred Content Management System?
Thankfully someone’s put together the blogger’s guide to gang-signs, so when you’re at the next TechCrunch or London Bloggers’ meet-ups, you can throw your hands in the air and align yourself with the Wordpress, Movable Type or Blogtron crew.
Click on the image above…
Souped Up John: Techo-toilet extraorindaire
This shit is unbelievable! That’s what you’ll be hearing from behind your bathroom door when you friends come to visit should you install the Souped Up John aka the world’s geekiest toilet…
Denver alien footage hits internet!
Denver man, Ron Peckman caused a big stir over the weekend when a lack of anything even remotely exciting happening in the rest of the world saw his bid to form an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission rocket him to the height of news media fame.
Well, actually it was his claim to have genuine footage of an alien prowler that captured most people’s imagination, and of course, we want to see it for ourselves. And, errr, here it is!
Aliens are real! Denver man has "visual confirmation", wants to form Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission
A Denver man is pushing city officials to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission following the discovery of a video tape that he claims shows an authentic, living, breathing, all-American space thingy…
