The UberReview » Robots http://www.uberreview.com An Eclectic Mix Of Gadgets & Wired Madness Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:30:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 T-shirt: Three Wise Bots Have Old-school Monkey Wisdom Down http://www.uberreview.com/2009/10/t-shirt-three-wise-bots-have-old-school-monkey-wisdom-down.htm http://www.uberreview.com/2009/10/t-shirt-three-wise-bots-have-old-school-monkey-wisdom-down.htm#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:05:15 +0000 C. S. Magor http://www.uberreview.com/?p=12770 Three-Wise-Bots-T-Shirt-510x510
“Speak no evil, see no evil, hear no evil” for the robotic age.

Price: About $40 [Fashionably Geek]

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These toy robot hands, which feature five jointed fingers on each hand can be used to hold small objects, which makes the $600 price tag kind of a lot.

You need to be in Japan (and serious about your robot hands) to pick up a pair.

[Rakuten via BBG]

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From the information that I could find, this impressive transforming robot build is the work of Kevmag 2000 for a robotics class. All I can say is that I hope to see more of his work. [Make]

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The video is simple enough, a large musclebound man is rendered into a quivering mess by an iRobot PackBot packing a Taser. Today they zap us with Tasers, tomorrow they render us into fuel. [RobotStockNews via BotJunkie]

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A book turning robot might seem pointless, but when one really sits down and thinks about it, there are people who for various reasons cannot turn a page in a book, and there are some pretty books out there too. Book Time, the book turning robot is designed with such people in mind and will find its way into nursing homes and public libraries and probably not become a convenience device for the chronically under-motivated. [New Launches]

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