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Teotronico, the Well Dressed Robot Pianist
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Some robots build cars in a factory, some rescue people during disasters and some just want to have fun. Teotronico just likes to get dressed up and play some piano for his human audience. This 19-fingered, and somewhat goofy looking robot not only plays the piano, but can also accompany… |
October 21st, 2011
Nice Ball Lamp Looks Like a Katamari
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Actually this lamp doesn’t have anything to do with Katamari Damacy, but it sure looks like it, doesn’t it? Designer Paola Pivi’s Nice Ball is a hanging lamp covered with tiny replicas of 80 chairs and tables from the Vitra Design Museum collection.… |
May 28th, 2011
Google Executives Convicted of Privacy Violations in Italy
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The Observer reports that today, in Italy, 3 Google executives were convicted of privacy violations and charged with three to six months of suspended sentence. The case revolved around a video that was uploaded on YouTube in 2006, shortly after Google acquired the service. The video showed “an autistic student … |
February 24th, 2010
Nava Ora Unica Watch Replaces Hands With Squiggles
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A couple of years back, the guys over at Yanko Design surfaced this cool watch concept that featured an unusual way of telling time. I’m happy to tell you that the Ora Unica watch has actually made it to market, and it looks awesome. Designed by Denis Guidone, and produced… |
February 10th, 2010
The Internet is Nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize
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While we freely give away Internets – as in “you win over 9,000 Internets, sir” – for awesome content seen online, this intangible infrastructure of awesome might soon win an award itself. And not just any award – the Internet is in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize. Whaaaaat?… |
February 3rd, 2010
Dustbot Trash Collector: the Roomba’S Big Big Brother
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Co-funded by the European Commission, the $3.9 million (USD) Dustbot project aims to build a moderately-sized robot to navigate the narrow streets that garbage trucks can’t reach. Hey that rhymed! Nice. Anyway the pictures below were taken from Dustbot’s trial run in Peccioli, Italy. Aside from collecting garbage, the Dustbot… |
July 10th, 2009
Tazzari Zero Tiny Electric Car Up for Bid on Ebay
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How’d you like to be the very first person in America to own this brand new electric car? The ZERO from Italy’s Tazzari Electric is getting set to hit U.S. shores by early 2010, and now there’s a chance for you to be the tooling around in this cute subcompact… |
June 2nd, 2009
Brionvega Rr227 Retro 1960s Radio Gets 21st Century Renovation With Mp3, Sd and USB
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The neo-modern design of this BrionVega desktop radio harkens back to a sixties’ Italian design aesthetic. Maybe that’s because it’s actually based on a radio the company actually made back in 1965 in Italy. BrionVega’s RR227 is a modern-day update of Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper’s classic RR127 radio, which… |
April 13th, 2009
Instant Pizza Anyone?: Vending Machine Makes Pizza in Three Minutes
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Italian pizzerias are outraged at the Let’s Pizza vending machine, due to be released in Italy this summer. Let’s Pizza apparently does to pizza what Nissin did to noodles: make it possible to enjoy one in 3 minutes. The machine doesn’t just heat frozen pizza; it actually serves freshly-made pizza.… |
March 27th, 2009
Phone Gun: Deadly Phone or Ugly Gun?
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The Italian police have recently recovered a gun disguised as an ugly, outdated, monochrome-screened phone. That’s right: monochrome. James Bond would rather have his testicles torn off, boiled and then fed to him than be caught using this ancient tech. The phone was seized in a raid of the Naples-based… |
December 1st, 2008
