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When you head out to a Japanese resturant, sometimes the little bottles restaurants have to hold the soy sauce resemble little robots. I half expect them to walk across the table and pour themselves. And what robot is more appropriate to have a themed soy sauce bottle for than R2D2, the lovable droid from Star Wars. Not only was he ...

Microsoft was just asking for something like this to happen when they offered custom designs for their portable media player, the Zune. This particualr design was put together by iPhoneSavior.com, with a caricature of Steve Ballmer proclaiming he is a “frigtard”. P.S. Even an animated portrayal of Ballmer without a shirt on is arousing nauseating. This design not only immortalized ...

Even the best of us have some legendary lapses of memory, including forgetting where we put the cap to our USB flash drive. The TwinMOS Mobile Disk P1 solves this problem by not even including a cap, instead opting for a sliding mechanism. The device by TwinMOS also has a slick mirrored surface and 6 multicolored LED lights which glow ...

Up to a year ago when it was outlawed, Qatar camel racers were using children as jockey’s because of their small frames. Not to mention those poor, poor midgets. Weighing only 57 lbs, this Robotic Camel Jockey is much lighter and more aerodynamic then a human, no matter how much you might use the sandpaper on the midgets head. Both ...

Much like Paro, the cuddly seal robot, Kobie is said to be the most advanced robotic pet companion in Korea, not far behind many other robotic projects worldwide. Developed by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Kobie reacts to touch and sound, and can even react to individual human feces faces. Kobie even reacts to violence. Slap him once, ...

Featuring full slide action, this very miniature Nokia 5200 toy is small enough to get lost among the coins in your pocket, yet still resembles the slider phone. Did we mention it can slide despite its size? It can actually slide! Oh, and it also features an image of a kitty on the screen. Pst, Pst, here kitty kitty. — ...

Baby boomers rejoice. A tech gadget made for the Nixon through Carter generation is always good, as boomers are more often than not, immune to learning about technology. Cre8txt has developed this keypad which aids in translating the IM-speak of those damn kids. I mean, what the hell is a ROFLcopter anyway! When your faced with a communication barrier, have ...

This Matchstick Concept lamp stands 5.5′ tall, making it one huge and flameless (unless you light it on fire) match. The Matchstick Lamp is easy to move, you just pick it up and lean it up against a wall. It really couldn’t be easier unless it moved for you. You could probably get it to move for you too if ...

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Man, oh man, have we seen some kickass notebook mods in our day. It feels like it was only yesterday that I was proclaiming the iTop the coolest thing since sliced bread. This Antique notebook mod is really one for the record books. Running off of Ubuntu (like that even matters when your computer looks like this), the Heirloom mod ...