Not quite a flying car, but Terrafugia’s “roadable aircracraft” is the closest thing yet.

From Xconomy:

..the two-seat, four-wheeled, carbon-fiber-composite aircraft, which can fly up to 450…

Test flight video of Terrafugia’s “roadable aircraft”

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The Massive Dust Clouds of South Africa

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From PinkTentacle:

With 30 motors in her body, the 158-centimeter (62-in) tall, 43-kilogram (95-lb) HRP-4C can walk around and strike a…

Japan’s HRP-4C “fashion” model robot

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At the 2008 EG Conference, artist Miru Kim talks about her work. Kim explores industrial ruins underneath New York and then photographs herself in them, nude — to bring these massive,…

Miru Kim – Making Art of New York’s Ruins

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Director Andy Fickman explains: “‘I love my dead gay son.’ If you can get that into a song, then that is just perfect.”

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Heathers: The Musical

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We mentioned MIT’s Sixth Sense project earlier. The full TED talk introducing and briefly demonstrating it is now online:

Via WIRED, here’s two more quick demo videos:

I want this…

more details on MIT’s Sixth Sense

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From TheRegister:

four pounds of lithium polymer batteries will run the exoskeleton for an hour walking at 3mph, according to Lockheed….

Lockheed’s supersoldier exoskelton: HULC

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From Engadget:

…with a little help from RoBe:Do and Twitter, robotics has achieved what may be its crowning achievement: couch-side popcorn delivery. Coppa is a $1,649 software-ready robot…

programmable robot delivers popcorn via twitter

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Henri Bergius shows us what happens when reailty meets product concepts:

The story behind this is that Jerry had a motorcycle accident last May and lost a finger. When the doctor…

usb memory stick in prosthetic finger

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