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September 3, 2015

GoBox Raspberry Pi Robot Subscription Kit: Maker 1

GoBox Raspberry Pi Robot Subscription Kit: Maker 1
Dexter Industries makes educational electronics and robotics kits for all levels of experience. With its new GoBox subscription service, the company aims to be more involved in the progress of robotics newbies, particularly children.…
July 25, 2013

Elements 4D Augmented Reality Cubes: Virtual Building Blocks

Elements 4D Augmented Reality Cubes: Virtual Building Blocks
The Elements iPad app is one of the best alternatives to the traditional periodic table. But a mobile augmented reality company called DAQRI is working on something more interactive and intuitive.…
April 30, 2012

Discovery Channel Crashes 727 for TV Show

Discovery Channel Crashes 727 for TV Show
None of us ever want to experience an airplane crash first-hand, but you’ll soon have the opportunity to learn what happens inside and outside a commercial airliner when it does crash, thanks to the Discovery Channel.…
January 5, 2012

Cubelets: Amazing Robotic Building Blocks

Cubelets: Amazing Robotic Building Blocks
These things look awesome. What you have here are building blocks that let you create cool robots by connecting sensors, motors, and feedback devices. The robots can even interact with the world around them.…
April 16, 2010

Robot Infographic: Know Your Future Masters

Robot Infographic: Know Your Future Masters
The guys at Online Schools scoured the Internet to come up with a lengthy but entertaining infographic about robots. It contains a lot of quiz show-type trivia, like the fact that the earliest known robot was a steam powered one, invented in 400 BC, that most robots are cow milkers, or that people who own a Roomba often clean their floors before putting the little spoiled brat to work.…
January 1, 2010

What You Write is What You Get: Scribblenauts in Real Life

What You Write is What You Get: Scribblenauts in Real Life
Made by Steven Zhou and Syed Olmer Gilani of the National University of Singapore’s Interactive Multimedia Lab, What You Write Is What You Get (WYWIWYG) is a visual way of learning about language.…
October 22, 2009

Gakken Gmc-4: 4-Bit Microcomputer Kit Won’T Play Crysis

Gakken Gmc-4: 4-Bit Microcomputer Kit Won’T Play Crysis
Sure, you might have just gone off and bought yourself a brand new 27-Inch iMac this week, but if that system seems like overkill for your needs, you could can always go to the opposite extreme.…
October 15, 2009

Manual Digital Clock Makes You Change the Time by Hand Every Minute

Manual Digital Clock Makes You Change the Time by Hand Every Minute
When I first saw this clock design, I was scratching my head wondering why you’d want a clock that doesn’t keep time at all. After all, who wants a clock that you have to manually change the time on every time the minute changes?…
October 14, 2009

Wikireader: the World’S Most Semi-Trusted Encyclopedia at Your Fingertips

Wikireader: the World’S Most Semi-Trusted Encyclopedia at Your Fingertips
Don’t you just love Wikipedia? Whether you’re a high school student writing a paper on some obscure old or dead person, a tech blogger who knows nothing about tech, or a lowly prankster who wants people to think, even for just 50 seconds, that the name “Microsoft” is really a description of someone’s primary sexual characteristic, the crowd-sourced encyclopedia has something for everyone.…
August 19, 2009

Concert Hands: Watch as Your Hands Learn to Play the Piano

Concert Hands: Watch as Your Hands Learn to Play the Piano
Want to learn to play the piano – or at least play a song on the piano – without having to deal with creepy or boring instructors?…
February 19, 2009

Virtual and Literal Periodic Table Are Bursting With Awesomeness. and Elements.

Virtual and Literal Periodic Table Are Bursting With Awesomeness. and Elements.
Theodore Gray is one of the founders of technical computing software company Wolfram Research. But we’re not going to talk about that aspect of his life.…
May 3, 2007

Technorobot: the Paper Automaton

Technorobot: the Paper Automaton
Sure, you could go spend hundreds of dollars on one of those fancy robot kits, or you could be a cheap bastard like me, and pick up one of these.…