Archive for June 2010

I’m always amazed at what some people can do with LEGO building blocks. This is definitely impressive. It’s a LEGO Mindstorms robot that can walk like a human.

The robot is called Pinocchio and the aim of the project is to kinematically imitate a human walking.
I know for a…

As many of us from a certain generation, I love Star Wars…. While I don’t own that many toys from the movies, I do like these the artistry in these Star Wars toys photos by Gareth Payne.

His most iconic shot is of a stormtrooper doing some moonwalking, which

Southend Interactive’s upcoming Xbox Live Arcade game ilomilo is as charming as Little Big Planet, and it’s gameplay looks like it can be as dizzying as Super Mario Galaxy….

A company called Ubimark released a version of the Jules Verne classic Around the World in 80 Days…. Unlike other printed books, the Ubimark version has QR codes, the square ones that are frequently used as bar codes. This time the QR codes act as hyperlinks. Users need a

12-year old Norweigan Hans Jørgen Olsen saved himself and his sister from being harmed by an angry moose by emulating skills he learned from World of Warcraft…. According to NextNature, the Olsen siblings “trespassed the territory of the moose during a walk in the forest near their home.” When

This simple concept design for a bookmark is absolutely brilliant – both figuratively and literally.

Designer Valentina Trimani’s Lightleafs light-up bookmark would use a bright OLED light source, and not only would mark your pages, but provide sufficient illumination to read in bed with the lights off. The proposed design…

Now I didn’t realize that anyone actually needed tech support on how to use Google, but this audio recording from somebody’s granny demanding removal of Google’s recent Pac-Man game is just too funny to ignore.
I love the part where she says she needs to “turn her monitor on” in…

If you’re a guy, you can admit it – having to watch girl shows can really suck. Every time a guy has to sit and watch The Bachelorette or Real Housewives… with their significant other, somewhere a kitten dies. My wife likes to crowd our DVR with shows like that

Couldn’t you use a robotic butler? I know that I sure could. This goofy home-made Butlerbot was created for the 1st birthday of its creator’s son, Ethan. That all sounds like the setup for some sort of science fiction film that goes horribly wrong when the robot assumes the personality…

These amazing sculptures were created by the Australian artist Peter Hennessey.  And no, they can’t fly. They’d probably burn up on lift-off if you even tried to launch one into space.

My Hubble …will premiere at the Biennale of Sydney 2010. It’s a life-size recreation of the Hubble telescope constructed