Bouncing Red Ball

Sony featured its kinetic-powered Odo line of gadgets at the recently held Eco Products 2008 Expo at the Tokyo Big Site.
Among these is the Twirl N’ Take, a 3-megapixel CMOS-sensor-equipped hand-powered digital camera. It looks like a pizza cutter and you roll the round part to power the camera before taking a shot. (The [...]

Wakamaru, the boy-faced robot from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, debuts in a play staged at Osaka University in Japan. Entitled “Hataraku Watashi” (I, Worker), the play, written by playwright and Osaka University professor Oriza Hirata, explores the relationship of humans and the robots that are tasked to assist them in their everyday chores.
In the 20-minute play, [...]

iMac photo by poportis
My iMac crashed yesterday so I spent the whole day moving files here and there with the Mac OS Installer CD’s command line before reinstalling the whole system. The crash was entirely my fault; I had several programs running including Photoshop which rapidly sucked up all the remaining gigabytes in my almost-full [...]

Awesome photo galleries from Mainichi, Asahi and Response about the recent anime car festival in Odaiba called Itasha G Fesuta and covered by major news media. {Also check out this great gallery by Otasuke. Thanks for the link Yamatologic!}
The festival features more than 400 cars adorned with anime and game characters. Surely an event that [...]

When a countrywide group of Japanese custom-car aficionados meet somewhere in the Kanto area of Japan, you’re sure to see some weird, deformed, barely rideable machines. I doubt these can be used on ordinary roads in Japan, but they’re kind of cool though, in a kinky kind of way. (Click on the pictures to go [...]

Robots come in many different shapes: there are humanoid robots, robots shaped like seals, dogs, snakes, bugs and dinosaurs but this is probably the first known robot that is shaped like a flower.
Korean researchers have developed a hibiscus-shaped robot that can simultaneously be used as humidifier and air freshener. When approached, the robot bends its [...]

Fervens is a great three-column Wordpress theme from the guys at Design Disease and Smashing Magazine. With fresh colors and simple typography–and with three different versions to choose from–one could hardly hope for a better theme to use for a Wordpress blog.
I have one problem with it though: the post column is too narrow. I [...]

Although not strictly robots, Nabaztag and Chumby are two of the most popular “smart objects”, so called because of their ability to connect to the Internet and interact with various Internet applications (to read news headlines, weather forecasts or email for example).
Nabaztag is a bunny-shaped (”nabaztag” is Armenian for “rabbit” I read) Wi-Fi enabled France-born [...]