We’ve seen several mods involving the Nerf Vulcan in the past, but this heat seeking version from Make Gadget Freak Design Contest award-winner Rick Prescott might be the most intimidating.
This 4G robot USB drive kind of looks like C3-PO if he was captured and buffed to death. I’ll bet they just wanted to remove his mouth to shut him up.
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Kinda makes the $20 million price tag to fly up as a tourist seem worth it. Watch the video on CubicleBot…
These bookends were created by a guy with access to a CNC machine, but I’ll be dammed if he couldn’t sell a ton of them on Etsy.
I’m not sure how George Lucas and Disney’s lawyers will feel about all this, but artist James Hance has created some truly beautiful illustrations that mash up Winne the Pooh with Star Wars.
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Of course I’m talking about beer theft.
The drone uses a flexible robotic hand to grasp objects of about a pound in weight. Naturally, there are all kinds of practical applications for something like this as the technology improves—delivering supplie and handling bombs for instance…but what we are really interested in is retrieving a beer from the fridge with a helicopter. Now that would be something.
Check out the following link to see it in action.
(Technology Review via Boing Boing)
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Unfortunately, it’s also priced like an Apple product.
Product Page ($290 via Technabob)
From CubicleBot: The Doctor Who series of floating pens includes Cyberman, Dalek and TARDIS versions. When you whip one of those out to sign off on something, it tells clients you mean business.
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Looking at this nerdy Domo just made me laugh. He’s got a bow tie for frak’s sake.
Product Page ($10)
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