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Doctor Builds Own Tricorders, You Can Too

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Everyone who has ever watched an episode of Star Trek or one of the Trek… films has probably thought it would be cool to have a tricorder. Even consumer electronics maker Qualcomm wants to bring tricorders to reality. A cognitive science researcher named Dr. Peter Jensen has now offered up the schematics

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March 29th, 2012 by: Shane McGlaun

Robot Artist Draws Caricatures in Three Minutes

Not content to just take our medical and factory jobs, robots are now eying the art field, with an emphasis on creating caricatures. After robots one day hit the street and earn money by drawing people, caricature will become a lost art to humans. It will be a world gone…

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March 12th, 2012 by: Conner Flynn

Own Your Own WORKING Terminator Arm

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We were just saying how you might be able to output your own robotic limbs using 3D printing, but if that’s too advanced for you, why not buy yourself an already fully-functional Terminator arm instead.…

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January 4th, 2012 by: Technabob

DLR Hand Arm System: The Dawn of the Terminator?

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Some German researchers over at DLR have come up with an advanced robotic arm that’s actually really sturdy. Initially, the arm might look fragile, but that isn’t the case. Take a look at the video, in which a researcher takes a baseball bat against the robotic space arm.…

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May 14th, 2011 by: Range

Articulated Arm Tablet Holder: If iPad and Luxo, Jr. Had a Baby

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You know, the funny thing about this image is that Steve Jobs really was the father of both of these items – there’s Luxo, Jr., the little articulating Anglepoise lamp from Pixar’s breakthrough short film, and an iPad, from, well, you know where. Ok, Jobs didn’t found Pixar, but all…

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April 12th, 2011 by: Technabob

x-Ar Exoskeleton Arm Gives Arms Super Strength

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Ever since I saw an exoskeleton in Aliens…, I wondered why there weren’t any real ones around. Over the last decade, actual working exoskeletons have started to appear, albeit in a smaller fashion. This one is only for your arm to help you lift very heavy things.

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March 11th, 2011 by: Range

Quik Pod for dSLR Lets You Take Self-Portraits

If you have ever tried to take a picture of yourself or you and other people without using a timer by just holding the camera out from you in your hand you know that can be hard. I don’t like asking strangers for help because the strange could be a…

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December 15th, 2010 by: Shane McGlaun

Iarm: Perfect to Hold All Those Gizmos on Your Arm

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You’ve probably met people who have two cell phones, an iPad, a GPS and other ‘important’ gadgets that they keep glancing at while you’re talking to them. Now you can give them the prefect gift so that they can keep watching all of their gadgets at the same time, thanks…

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September 28th, 2010 by: Range

Pancake Flipping Robot is Flippin’ Sweet

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Now I’ll start out by saying that I really like pancakes. There’s nothing like a little carb-loading in the morning to get me going. Ok, the only place a tall stack of yummy pancakes, drenched with maple syrup and butter gets me going is straight to the couch. Now I…

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July 24th, 2010 by: Technabob

Sariel’S LEGO Robot Hand was Built in a Weekend

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Sariel has just created this amazing robotic hand, that he built using only LEGO Technics parts. It took him just a weekend to come up with his build, that he appropriately calls The Hand…. I don’t know what it is with all the LEGOs this week, but there’s just

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March 3rd, 2010 by: Range

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