If you’re the type of person who has a penchant for drinking from odd and unique glasses, this is a win for you. A number of shot glasses that look like Canon camera lenses have been designed by DERELIQ Designs. DERELIQ Designs is a design studio that is run by a group of UC Berkley students. These shot glasses are perfect in every detail, from the tiny auto-to-manual focus switch to the focus ring ridges. These shot glasses are nice and is made from heavy ceramic so it feels really solid in your hands. The shot glasses are accurate...
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Sifteo Inc., a San Francisco-based company, confirmed that its interactive, cube-based gameplay system called Sifteo Cubes is ready to be released. The Sifteo Cubes is a set of 1.5-inch blocks that feature full color screens. They can be shaken, tilted or rotated to play games. Each cube feature a 128-pixel LCD screen, Wi-Fi connectivity and a 32-bit ARM processor. The cubes also have accelerometers so that they can respond to stacking and tilting. The cubes can be arranged to play games, from building challenges and vocabulary puzzles....
Futurama fans, rejoice! A new 9-inch tall Bender figure has been seen, and unlike most Bender action figures, this one talks! The Talking Bender Figure is a full-fledged Bender action figure based on the hit cartoon series Futurama. This figure will definitely rattle your favorite Benderisms in order to provide humor on any situation, especially when it gets a little boring in the office. There have been a number of figures and toys that feature this keg chugging, cigar smoking, foul mouthed robot from Futurama, and the difference between...
Three Lego minifigures will be hitching a ride on NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which is set to leave the planet to Jupiter this Friday. A couple of scientists from NASA working on the Juno space mission thought that it would be fun to put some Lego minifigs on the satellite before its launch. Lego, meanwhile, liked the idea and spent around $15,000 carving 1.5 inch tall minifigs, which are made from solid blocks of aluminum, to make sure they don’t cause an accidental crash to Jupiter. NASA and Lego’s secret plan was only...
Plastics have been one of the most popular and most important inventions of our time. Almost all of the products we use today, from grocery bags to device cases, are made from at least one type of plastic. Now, designers are making innovative designs for product made from recycled plastic – kind of important when you consider we are running out of oil. Designer Dror Peleg designed a bike that looks like a normal bike made from large chunks of plastic called ‘Frii.’ Peleg made use of the injection molding technology, which...
LEGO has announced its partnership with two of the world’s biggest names in comic books, Marvel and DC. The toy brand brings the forces of the Marvel Universe and DC’s finest under the banner of LEGO. In a press release by LEGO, the new Marvel collection will focus on three Marvel franchises – the X-Men, The Avengers and Spiderman. The Avengers movie line includes The Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America, Hawkeye, Thor, Loki and Black Widow. The X-men line includes minifig versions of Magneto, Wolverine, Nick Fury and Deadpool,...
Angry Birds has become one of the most popular games of all time. Since it was released two years ago, this highly-addictive iPhone app is still the No.1 best selling paid app. Now, an Ice Age-style feature film is being created just to prove how successful this franchise is. According to Panjiva, a company that tracks shipments to the US, Angry Birds-related goods have increased 500 percent in the last five months. Talking about how Angry Birds products will be hot sellers, Panjuva CEO Josh Green said, “I have to say it could be...
Warner Bros. unveiled a photo of the recently announced limited edition Batman: Arkham City Collector’s Edition set, with the entire set laid out for all of us to see. The collector’s set will be released alongside the Batman: Arkham City game on October 21 this year. If you’re willing to pay $99 for the limited edition Batman: Arkham City Collector’s Edition, you’ll get a package full of memorabilia that will please both fans of the comic book series and the videogame franchise. Along with the game, the pack...
It is amazing how much robot technology has progressed over the years. Robots make our lives easier by doing things we find hard to do and unlike people, they just do their work without hesitation. There are a variety of things these machines can do, from everyday normal jobs to doing military work. Now, James Cochrane of Toronto reveals the musical powers of his creations with a cover of Marilyn Manson’s The Beautiful People. Last year, Cochrane released a Youtube video of his robot band The Bit-52’s cover version of B52’s...
During a three-and-a-half week Experimental Robotics course at Stanford University, students had the chance to show off their creations to their classmates and friends in the school’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. “The whole project – from design to performance – is three-and-a-half weeks, so this is remarkable,” said Oussama Khatib, one of the computer science professors in the University. “These projects illustrate how creative our students can be when they’re challenged with a problem.” The...