By David Ponce
We usually hide videos after the fold, but this is special. See, a lot of people got weak at the knees, back in December of last year, when news that Japan's Asahi Breweries were giving away...
By David Ponce
Far be it from us to suggest that technological advances might be doing too good of a job in replacing humans at whatever it is humans do. We envision a future where our days are filled...
By David Ponce
While Snakes on a Plane not only sounds like a bad idea but also happens to be shaping up to be a box office flop, Snakes on a Firetruck is a different story altogether (it's a bad...
By David Ponce
Here's a good idea poorly implemented. There's a whole bunch of people who would have jumped at the opportunity to control "real-life" Marios or Toads with a Famicon controller, making them run, and jump on command,...
By David Ponce
Never underestimate the power of untapped potential. While the Ballbot might not look like it's doing much (balancing itself on one ball and rolling back and forth, willy-nilly) we are confident that the robot is simply...
By David Ponce
Being trapped beneath a pile of rubble is a bad way to spend your weekend. And while people in earthquake prone areas are more likely to benefit from the Hibiscus rescue bot (a design of Chiba...
By David Ponce
Honda's ASIMO has come a long way in its 20 year history, looking more and more human along the way. There's really no reason (other than our anthropomorphilia (I like big words)) to equate a robot's...
By David Ponce
Not smoking new, still cool. Let me make an appropriately old and lame South Park joke as an intro, you know, to break the ice.
1) Make a LEGO/Homebrew-enabled GameBoy Advance robot.
2) ?
3) Profit
Yeah, so that's the...
By Bruce Eaton
We here at OhGizmo love our flying machines. But being able to fly is just one feature on the Dragonflyer V Ti Pro Helicopter. Able to shoot 460 lines of resolution on its CCD Video Camera...