Wall E
Sunday is here again and it’s time for another Week in Review. You might remember that cool robot that GM and NASA developed dubbed Robonaut 2. R2 is set to head to the ISS aboard one of the final Shuttle mission and good ol’ R2 will be Tweeting his trip.
New market analysis surfaced early last [...]
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Robotics company WowWee has outed its latest domestic ‘bot offering, and they’ve looked to Wall-E for their inspiration. The WowWee Roboscooper is a six-wheeled remote-controlled robot with a big set of grabbing hands that can pick up objects and deposit them in the cargo bay at the back.
Both direct control and autonomous modes are on [...]
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Sure, you’ll have seen Lego-based Wall-E imitators before, but few recreate both the cuteness and the basic functionality of the drone quite like this one here. Programmed using Lego Mindstorms, this adorable little creation can transform itself into a box (like the real Wall-E!), pick up and carry objects, look up and down, and even [...]
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Long ago, in a building far, far away I had a real job. Many of you probably have real jobs right now. You know the type of job I mean, where you have to do what the boss says even if it’s stupid and they make you do horrible things like wear pants and only [...]
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It’s over far too quickly, but in the video after the break, what you get to see is how well the Zii Trinity mobile prototype handles outputting HD video — in this case, a very smooth playback of a snippet from Wall-E. Can we express more excitement for Creative’s little platform that could? Probably, but [...]
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The power of touch is huge in the consumer electronics market right now. Many of the smartphones, computers, and monitors that are hitting the market feature touch sensitive technology. Touch sensitive pads are replacing buttons and other switches on many gadgets today. Touch technology is also making its move into the toy realm for kids.
Jada [...]
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We’ve seen our fair share of Wall-E mods over the months, and yes, we’ve also seen an impressive papercraft creation or two. But frankly, we’ve never, ever seen a papercraft Wall-E, let alone a papercraft Wall-E that serves a purpose. TotoroYamada took the time to concoct what he describes as his own personal Mail-E, a [...]
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Now that Apple’s latest event has come to an end, we can go ahead and collect ourselves, and go over everything we’ve announced. And sure, there are changes to the iPod lines that definitely deserve attention, but we can’t forget about iTunes now can we? After all, it basically started it all, and it’s about [...]
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