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Skitterbot Moves Fast And Scares Your Friends

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Getting ready for the holiday season, the ? company has released a new remote control robot cockroach which is sure to creep you out and scare your dog. The Skitterbot is a super fast robotic cockroach that moves at a rate of 1 foot per second and makes a great skittering sound that’s sure to [...]

Lego Robot Chess

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Just saw this awesome Lego Mindstorms Robot Project which shows just how far you can go, if you have a bottomless budget. Rather than simply create a robot to move your chess pieces, they designed each chess piece itself as a robot which allows for some interesting interactions. It certainly is fun to watch. This [...]

iPhone Lego NXT Robot Control

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

A quick video of an interface allowing the NXT to read input coming from the iPhone screen. Kind of neat if you don’t interface the two together.

Forget Elmo, Robotic Hamster Zhu Zhu Pets Top Toy Sales – Gearlog

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

Shared by Jim Zhu Zhu hamsters sold out most everywhere but still available on Amazon, at a premium of course. Funny to note that the hamsters have their own blog, wow! So far, a quick scan of retailers’ Web sites seems to bear that out. Every item in the Zhu Zhu category is sold out [...]

The Associated Press: Robotic hamsters are holidays' unlikely new craze

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Shared by Borg. Another display of how much people are getting set for the latest hamster craze. I think it is more than an unlikely craze, but they are a bit neat! So many parents are upset with the stores for not supplying more.  That may be going a bit far, they aren’t the manufacturers [...]

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