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Sketch Furniture lets you draw a couch, then nap on it
You take a pen, draw what you want, a chair or couch for example, – in mid-air, no less – and a few hours later, which admittedly is a long time to wait to take a nap, the thing…
Make your own drawing board from an old joystick
Most geek shacks of any size will have a box containing one to infinity's worth of old joysticks lying around. Like most obsolete tech, they cost a lot at the time and the brain doesn't want to concede their…
Robot Guinea Pig with animatronic carrot
You turn the key in the lock and step into your darkened flat, and suddenly, a bright-eyed ball of fluff charges you! It's Gupi, the robotic guinea pig, expressing love the only way he knows how (aside from sharing…
28 LED Ultra-violet flashlight
I mistrust anything labeled unbreakable, but barring force majeure the Bright 28 LED Ultra-Violet Flashlight should get you through. Perfect for checking artwork for secret repairs, validating currency from across a river, or scorpion hunting – I especially like…
ecopod e1 Home Recycling Center
The ecopod e1 Home Recycling Center is the second product of the name, and what the current obsession with pod as a suffix is is a mystery to me entire. This ecopod is a mini recycling centre, styled by…
Mahru 2: Humanoid Robot From Samsung
The interesting thing about the Mahru 2 Humanoid Robot From Samsung is not so much the body, although it is humanoid and has four fingers and a thumb. It's also not that it has a built-in camera where it…
Robot vehicle goes up stairs, over bridge of freaks
The fellas at Boing Boing are wondering if anybody knows what this robot vehicle sighted in Japan is exactly. Apparently it can climb curbs and stairs, and navigate crowds, so well that the occupant seemed relatively blasé about his…
Power Aware Glowing Cable
Instead of the same old rubberized black power cable, the Power Aware Cord pulses brighter and brighter as you draw more electricity. Developed by Anton Gustafsson and Magnus Gyllenswärd for STATIC!, the idea is to draw attention to not…
Tyco N.S.E.C.T. Robotic Attack Creature
Sporting a very elaborate web site with all kinds of games which I only investigated as part of my solemn duty, I report back that the Tyco N.S.E.C.T. Robotic Attack Creature is a remote-controlled arthopod that you can actually…
HAL 5 Robotic Suit takes you to the mountaintop
It's not the oversized Mechwarrior battle gear we think of when we think robot exoskeleton, but then, it's intended for day-to-day use. The HAL 5 Robotic Suit, by Tsukuba University engineering professor Yoshiyuki Sankai, is a vaguely Tron-looking outfit…
