Tag: gabrielle taylor
Dancing on the water: mirror image clock
Do you spend a lot of time reflecting on, er, time? The Dancing On the Water mirror image clock does. It has LEDs embedded in its base, which are reflected in the polished steel backing, making the numbers appear…
Star Wars mimobots now shipping
[GT] The Star Wars Series 1 from mimoco is now shipping! Available in hydrocephalic Darth Vader, Chewbacca, Stormtrooper and R2D2, they are 1, 2 or 4 gigabytes and contain premium Star Wars digital content: including exclusive wallpapers, desktop icons,…
Water found on distant planet
Planet HD 209458b is a Jupiter-like gas giant located 150 light-years away, in the constellation Pegasus. Astronomer Travis Barman, from the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, US, just published in the Astrophysical Journal that HD 209458b has water in its…
Mike, the emotional robot
The look of Mike, the emotional robot is probably not quite what you'd expect when you imagine empathic broadcast. However, it uses colour-changing to indicate how it feels: red for red is for anger, green is for happiness, and…
Mini remote controlled R2D2
At only $30 for the Mini remote controlled R2D2 it's not surprising that the supply is limited. This scale model of R2D2 is a fully-licensed collectible, complete with original beep-boop noises, and controlled via a light-saber shaped remote. Tiny…
Drobo storage robot is "self-aware"
Drobo is a storage robot with four hard disk slots, which it manages as one enormous drive. If you insert an 80 gig SATA, a 250 gig SATA, and a 110 gig EIDE, it will handle them all as…
Robot calls out the vote
The robot Actroid appeared at a Yokohoma department store – to encourage people to vote. The Yokohama Municipal Election Administration Commission planned the robot display to educate voters, as turnout for the unified local elections in Yokohama has not…
Aquabot and Aquajet robot pool cleaners from iRobot
Though less sexy than most pool boys, the Aquabot and Aquajet robot pool cleaners from iRobot are, at $799 and $1,199, probably cheaper and better for your marital sanity in the long run. Each can clean a 20×50 pool…
Hamster powered paper shredder
Is the Hamster powered paper shredder the ultimate in green power – harnessing activity generating otherwise wasted energy to achieve a practical result? Or, is it a cruel re-enactment of serfdom involving your hamster slave? As with most moral…
Sunglasses change colour by your command
I love my prescription glasses which change tint so delicately that I often forget that the sun even exists, but those could seem like monochrome compared to new sunglasses on the horizon that change colour at your whim. They…
