Eungsang Park, a South Korean inventor, has apparently released a magic marker drawing that he is passing off as a concept robot dog. Sony's popular robot dog Aibo was discontinued last year, and Eungsang has decided to come to the rescue with Arin. The robot has all the features that you could want from a companion- DVD player, camera, smell sensor, "update," navigator screen, cell phone functionality, "button"- everything. Well, everything except a soft cuddly exterior, but that's what everybody hates about real dogs anyway. Is this all it takes to develop a product? A crude drawing packing every piece of known technology into a friendly shape? If so, I'd like to introduce my electric kitten concept. It has everything above plus a toaster oven and a machine gun. Top that, Eungsang.
Someone has finally given you an excuse besides alcohol to brandish a gun about in front of your computer. Using a $30 gyration mouse, some basic soldering skills, and a bunch of duct tape, Brandon Morgado has created a motion controlled Nintendo Zapper mouse. The mouse cursor follows where you aim the gun at the screen, allowing you to incorporate firearms into yet another aspect of your otherwise peaceful life. It seems that everyone is taking Nintendo technology and applying it to computers today. What's next? That track and field Power Pad?
In order to avoid running laps at the command of their grizzled gym teacher, students at a middle school in California built a 10,000 square foot roller coaster in their gym. Let's face it, when it comes to roller coaster design and safety, kids know a thing or two. The roller coaster's track is 400 feet long with a highest point of 24 feet, and the cars will achieve speeds of up to 35mph on the safety and comfort of 8 skateboard wheels. It's still in testing, so we will have to wait another week before it collapses on a girl scout troop, and roller coasters are outlawed in America. Way to go, kids.
If your marriage is falling apart, we all know that the only way to truly save it is to build a giant amphibious milk truck and attempt to circle the globe. That was Rick Dobbertin's plan when he built the Dobbertin Surface Orbiter (DSO), a converted 1959 Heil stainless steel milk tanker with a top speed of 75mph on land and 10 knots (11mph) on the open sea. Sure, the DSO led to an inevitable divorce filled with salt water burns and internal fuel spills, and they never finished their voyage, but you can prosper from their despair! For a mere $200,000 you can pick up the very DSO that tore them apart. Also, park that shit in front of an embassy somewhere when you get it. Let them know you mean business.
Eitan Shefer has created an instrument that takes wild electronic sounds and quite possibly ab exercises to a whole new level. The Samchillian is a modified computer keyboard that produces a series of a seriously erratic yet catchy electronic noises simply by mashing on the keys. Check the video to see it in action. Each key on the Samchillian doesn't actually create a specific note, but rather changes the current tone's pitch, so just about anyone can bust out some whimsical tunes with relative ease. While currently just a concept, I'm sure thousands of people who don't like to "practice" or "work" will be eager to get their hands on one. People just like you and me.
Panasonic designers had to dig deep into their bag of design tricks for these "new" headphones. Just how deep? I'm guessing deep enough that they reached that old box in their basement marked "eighties cool." If you want to get technical, these headphones provide "40Ω, 99dB/mW on a 7 to 22Hz range." They weigh a hefty 135g, and they're the polar opposite of those snobby iPod earbuds. My recommendation? If you're dying to wear goofy headphones, go to your local thrift store and pick up an actual pair of headphones from the eighties. They'll carry a lot more soul, and you can probably pick up an old ventriloquist dummy while you're there.
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