As my mother once told me, there’s only so long you can roll around on the floor, bleating and waving your arms around, before they put you out to pasture. The same seems to be true with the Sony Rolly, currently out of stock at the official Sony Style US online store and apparently discounted to just $99 in their bricks & mortar stores.
With the weather picking up, there’s nothing like stepping outside and kicking a ball around with some friends. Or so I hear; I’m too busy inside glued to my laptop. But a team of Rovio robots over at NYU decided to have a kickabout, their student trainers coming up with software that allows the WowWee ‘bots to recognize a bright yellow tennis ball and shovel it toward the red goal.
It’s rare to see a press release and wonder whether someone has elaborately replicated a news service website in order to make a joke, but that was my first thought on seeing Celery’s recent announcement. The company offers a service that gathers up Twitter messages, Facebook updates and emails, and faxes them out; the recipient can then handwrite a response and fax it back, to be subscribed and tweeted back.
We like a good automaton here at SlashGear, and if it manages to reproduce an internet meme then all the better. Jon Haddock’s hand-cranked model is titled “Andrew Meyer (Don’t Tase Me Bro)” and reproduces the infamous 2007 University of Florida Taser incident.
Video demo after the cut
He may not have the complete costume like the last set of DIY Wolverine claws we saw, but this latest set of homemade claws certainly improve on the functionality. Spring-loaded, they’re triggered by a release button held near the wearer’s bicep: flex your arm, and they fire out and lock in the extended position.
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The best hacks don’t necessarily make a gadget any easier to use, or more discrete: they just make them cooler. That’s why this DIY glove phone is so awesome; it takes a Samsung A300 and a leather glove, and crafts a bizarre contraption that you dial by tapping buttons on the fingers, and use by holding your little finger to your mouth and your thumb to your ear.
We’ve talked about augmented reality (AR) here on SlashGear before, but we’ve never seen it incorporated into magic. Performer Marco Tempest has created a unique act in which classic card tricks are integrated with real-time AR; in this demonstration video, he shows both what’s happening normally and what’s brought to the performance by the computer.
Augmented reality magic demo after the cut
Computers can be frustrating things, Macs just as much as PCs, but most people manage to get through the day without recreating Psycho with their laptop. Unfortunately the MacBook Air in this video wasn’t so lucky: seemingly so frustrated by the broken hinge on his laptop, the owner was driven to attacking the screen with a kitchen knife.
MacBook Air knife-attack video after the cut
Perhaps if I were Korean I’d understand this a little better, but a rabbit with a hugely bloated cranium just isn’t the sort of thing I’d think to base an MP3 player on. Still, Mashimaro is vaunted as Korea’s answer to Hello Kitty, so I suppose there must be thousands of girls there desperate for this 54 x 38 x 38mm media player.
With the rise in internet shopping, suffering the anticipation of waiting for a new gadget to be delivered can become simply too much for the average person. Take, for example, this happy fellow and his brand new MSI Wind U123 netbook.
Unboxing video after the cut
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