Oct 1 2008 Flatshare Refrigerator Keeps Your No Good Thieving Roommates Out Of Your Food
Not really, it just separates everyone's food so it doesn't get mixed up. The Flatshare is a finalist in the Electrolux Design Lab 2008 competition and is the brainchild of Austrian design student Stefan Buchberger, who has obviously had it up to here with getting his freaking Eggos stolen. The unit consists of a base on which you can stack four separate refrigerator/freezer modules. Neat concept, but pretty worthless in real-world application. This won't stop a roommate from stealing your cold cuts, trust me. But you know what will? Poison. Haha, I poured rat killer in the OJ. I think it worked too, because I haven't heard a peep from the loud bastard in a few hours. I'll go check on him just as soon as I finish this screwdrive....oh Jesus -- quick, somebody call poison cont
Flatshare Fridge Separates Your Roommate's Rotten Food From Yours [gizmodo]
Thanks to Sophia, who agrees it's a sin punishable by pissing on their clean clothes pile to steal a roommate's last pudding pack.
Apr 29 2008 Uh-Oh: Reassembling Robots Are Hard To Kill
Well, we've seen a reassembling robot before, but that one was a chair, and, honestly, it's hard to get too frightened about a chair unless it's being swung at you by an unruly biker at the bar because you hit on his sister. Well these little reassembling robots are both scary and creepy (skip to around 1:26 for the good stuff). You kick them apart, and they find all the other pieces and self-assemble. Just think of the possibilities.
How would you like to have your very own shape-shifter? Perhaps a liquid metal T-1000 Terminator to help around the house. Or a universal tool kit that could reshape itself into any implement at the press of a button.
Okay, any mention of robots that includes a reference to "shape-shifters" and the Terminator is bound to scare the shit out of me. Needless to say I'm writing this from under my parents' bed. Speaking of which, there's an awful lot of damn squeaking going on up there. Oh no. Oh God, no.
Shape-shifting robots take form [newscientist]
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Thanks to Karina, who battles robots of all colors except for pink -- those she leaves to Yoshimi, for the tip
Dec 21 2007 Bikes Jealous Of Cars, Get Rearview Monitors
The Cerevellum Rearview Monitor is a rearview monitor you mount to the handlebars of your bike. It's headed to production soon and will sell for $200. It comes with a camera you can mount anywhere and features "a 3.5-inch screen and a 4-hour battery life, along with 32MB of storage for workout data and four USB ports for expansion modules." Sweet, expansion modules. I got a look at some of them and they're what you'd expect. A GPS module, a heart rate monitor, and one that calls 911 after you slam into a truck because you weren't paying attention to the road.
Cerevellum bike rearview monitor might be a little overkill [engadget]
