Colourful Spineless Camouflage Robots

September 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Last year, scientists from Harvard University developed albino robots that mimicked the movements of starfish, squid and worms. Now scientists have taken their robots’ development further by adding a variety of dyes that allows them to blend in with their environment.

It seems to me scientists are determined to bring to life all those horror movie plots we watched as children. All in the name of science of course.

*Scientific American has all the technical details of these spineless camouflage robots from Harvard

The reaDIYmate Robots

July 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

reaDIYmates are gorgeous little interactive robots that move and play sound when something happens in your digital life. The reaDIYmates are available in simple ready-to-put together kits or in their individual components that you can customize to your hearts content.

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Romo The Smartphone Robot

January 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment

This looks like a mini Mars Rover and you can own one yourself for a little less than the NASA made one. Just attach your iPhone or iPod Touch, download the App and you have your own little robot. He’s called “Romo” by the way!

So if you want to find out more about Romo, check out their website romotive.com

Olly The Smelly Robot

January 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Remember Pavlov’s dogs, Olly has kind of the same affect. Olly is a robot that connects to your computer and everytime you get a Facebook notification, it releases a smell chosen by you.

You can get more information on and help fund Olly and his friend Molly on their Kickstarter page

My Top 10 Cupcakes!

June 7, 2011 By 2 Comments

Yup as you probably can tell my next post was purely motivated  by one simple factor, hunger.

Now this particular state of being is something that however annoying, I always manage to see the positive side of. The positive side being that it gives me an excuse to go into the kitchen & feed my face, positive, win win situation on all accounts!

So it got me thinking, if I could have anything in the world at this particular time what would it be? What amazing morsel [Read more...]

For the nerds

March 31, 2011 By 2 Comments

Robot tea eggPeeka boo!

Do you love tea? Any tea, Earl Grey, Darjeeling, Rooibos, Chai? And are you a serious nerd? As in you can totally relate to any character in Star Trek and  Star Wars?

Do Mathematical equations keep you up at night… in a good way? If you answer any of  the above in the affirmative…then I have a treat just for you. A robot tea egg. He will keep his position by clutching the edge of your cup with his robot hands, and allow you to make sure your tea is water weak or strong enough to melt your teaspoon.

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