GOMI Style presents Sparky, the Autonomous Telepresence Robot

The GOMI Style peepz are back, with a wicked new project. Is it a robot? Is it a video phone? Is it a little freaky? You be the judge:

GOMI Style presents Sparky, the Autonomous Telepresence Robot

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Hexapod robot dance squad

Our favourite Martian Explorer may be entering an eternal sleep, but here on Earth these hexapod robots are pulling out some decent dance moves:

Hexapod robot dance squad

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Pileus: the internet umbrella

From Planet Damage:

Pileus (”the internet umbrella!“) is a joint project by Takashi Matsumoto and Sho Hashimoto – it’s basically an…

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Coming Soon: The Magic Stay Healthy and Skinny Forever Pill (TM)

The Obesity Epidemic could soon be over, if the scientists at Sirtris Pharmaceutical are on the money. Their research on the effects of resveratrol have lead to them to synthesize what…

Coming Soon: The Magic Stay Healthy and Skinny Forever Pill (TM)

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RealSnailMail: email delivered by RFIDed snails!

Boredom Research have come up with a crazy project, snail delivered email!

realsnailmail snail

Our snails are equipped with a miniaturised electronic circuit and antenna, enabling them to be assigned…

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60 Minutes story on Brain-Computer Interfaces

More evidence of our science-fictional present; when a story about Brain-Computer Interfaces appears on 60 Minutes, rather than a science program:

thanks for the tip-off Mith

Most…

60 Minutes story on Brain-Computer Interfaces

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The robots, they are singing to each other now

Want to know WTF is going on here?

One robot starts by babbling a random sequence of about six notes. When the second robot hears this, it responds with a babble of its own. The first robot…

The robots, they are singing to each other now

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Daito Manabe’s music driven, facial electric stimulus videos

Stealing content from Reblogging ECTOPLASMOSIS!

Daito Manabe’s newest art piece uses a machine which turns music into electrical…

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