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Transforming Morphex Robot Now Rolls in a Ball, Calls Itself Samus
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Remember that omni-directional robot called the Morphex? The ‘bot had the ability to transform from a ball to a robot and back. This robot was created by Norwegian Engineer Kåre Halvorsen and it is a neat little piece of technology. Now the Morphex has learned some new tricks of the Metroid… |
April 4th, 2012
Spherical Flying Machines: The Prisoner Isn’t Far Behind
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This unusual spherical flying machine was developed by the Japanese Ministry of Defense. It’s the first of its kind and is remote-controlled.… |
October 31st, 2011
Rotundus GroundBot: Rolling Surveillance Robot from the Future
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I don’t know why robotics experts haven’t thought of this before, but this tire-like surveillance robot is the way to go for mobile and autonomous operations. Even better since it looks like it’s right out of science fiction, from Terminator, The Prisoner or Fahrenheit 451…. |
October 23rd, 2011
Throwable Panoramic Ball Cam Gives You a 360 Degree View
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Smartphones are great for snapping pictures, but what if you want the shot from more than one angle? Well, that’s what the Panoramic Ball Cam is for. It has 36 mobile phone cameras built in, so you can just throw it in to the air and capture 360-degree panoramic photographs.… |
October 14th, 2011
Sphero: Get Your Hands on Some Remote-Controlled Glowing Balls
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Balls are very near and dear to most men’s hearts. We use them for all sorts of fun and games. We try to take care of our varied balls and keep them from harm’s way. No one wants one of their balls to go flat for instance or explode due… |
June 16th, 2011
Is Raleigh, NC Building a Death Star?
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The Death Star plans may not be in the main computer, but it does look like they are floating around Raleigh, North Carolina these days. I spotted the first of these mysterious photos over on Flickr and they sure make it look like a junior Death Star is under construction… |
June 13th, 2011
Kinect Puffersphere Has its Eye on You
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This may well be the coolest Kinect hack I have seen yet, despite the fact that it serves no purpose. I can only imagine how awesome this would be as a Halloween decoration. The geeks behind this hack took a Kinect and a spherical display from Pufferfish and hacked them… |
March 18th, 2011
Elipson Planet L Speakers Don’t Look Much Like Planets
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A set of speakers called the Elipson Planet L speakers have surfaced that look cool enough, but really only share the spherical shape in common with a planet.… |
February 2nd, 2011
Moneual Play Ball PC: What Has Three Balls, Six Axes and Seven Windows?
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Would you believe what you’re looking at is a PC? Yep. This set of orbs is a completely functional Windows 7 PC, courtesy of the guys at Korea’s Moneaul.… |
January 11th, 2011
Pierre Junod Eris Planetary Sphere Watch is a Real Ball
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I’ve seen some really unusual watches in my time, but I can tell you without a doubt that this is the first time that I’ve ever seen a watch that’s shaped like a perfectly spherical planet. Ever. Named after the recently discovered dwarf planet, the Pierre Junod Eris watch tells… |
July 6th, 2009
