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Mixing the best of natural genetics and robotic technology, Thomas Edwards created this totally horrifying “Robo Baby”, which is more like a baby head on a robot. Sure, it might be “art”, but why the hell put the head on top of a weird quad-legged body? If we saw this thing crawling along our floor, we would be screaming like ...

Here is a product of an item that showcases the overuse of geekiness. The Darth Duck Fadar is a totally useless flashing rubber ducky which glorifies such habits as placing blinking electronics in water. Not a good idea under any other circumstance. Evil ducky’s seems to be the new black. The Darth Duck starts blinking LED illumination lights when the ...

Desktop PC’s have been a foundation of everyday life for most people for over a decade now. If you were to do a case study of computers and their hardware history, one fact remains a constant. Hardware just keeps increasing work capacity, while also decreasing in physical size. With the ever growing explosion of laptop sales and the ever shrinking ...

The popular 3200 series from Parrot just got a new car kit added to its line-up. The Parrot LS-COLOR PLUS kit is a full-featured in-car sync for your gadgets. It can join hands with up to 5 different phones and can store up to 1,000 contacts. It can support 150 voice tags for true voice recognition control for easy and ...

[ev type=”flashvideo”” width=”400″ height=”345″ data=”http://lln-videos.metacafe.com/ItemFiles/%5BFrom%20www.metacafe.com%5D%20479447.3299353.11.flv” image=”http://www.uberreview.com/wp-content/uploads/battery-hack.jpg” clicktext=”Click here to Watch!”][/ev] Don’t feel like shelling out the extra money for a new laptop battery? This video tutorial shows you how to hack your notebook battery to keep the bad boy working. Very cool for the more frugal of the bunch. So, come on fellow readers, get out your tools. Happy hacking! ...

We don’t know if it’s our type of thing, but some of you are sure to love this Halo 3 Xbox 360 case mod available on eBay. The case sports a custom paint job which looks very impressive, and would be an awesome collection piece for Halo fans. Jeremiah Thiring, known for his mod work on PC cases, designed the ...

OK, this fire-breathing jumping robot may not be the most productive of the bunch or have any true purpose, but damn it is cool looking. The spider features legs that can be controlled independently of each other with an airbag on its bottom which allows it to jump two feet in the air. If you’re looking for functionality, look somewhere ...

[ev type=”youtube” data=”Q4OC-sNpgXs”][/ev] Don’t know what’s the deal with the girl, but the phone is truly hot. Supposedly an updated RAZR (and KRZR) with extra large external screen, and a form factor thinner than KRZR. What’s more is that it supports reading out messages and emails in a computer voice. We don’t know how legit this is yet. More video ...

The Wiimote sensor controller might be the more fun of the two, but sometimes, you’ve just gotta whip out the classic. It has to be done. So why not add a coolness factor to the classic controller as well? This DIY will allow you to add LED lights around the sticks of the controller. Some simple hardware manipulation is required. ...

The number 9 for a penny less than $1,000? You’ve gotta be shittin’ me! Those other greedy bastards are charging $1,496.63! We know a bargain when we see one! According to Spluch, there WAS one worth $254,623. I guess the demand for nines drastically decreased over the last few hours. We just can’t help but to poke fun at other ...