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muffins

Students Build Robot Muffin Maker, Prompt Re-Write of Song

Do you know the Robotic Muffin Maker, the Robotic Muffin Maker, the Robotic Muffin Maker? Well: you do now. Built by a Industrial Electrical Technician students Carl Boucher and Dominic Dussault, there's almost no other info about the project. But no matter: forward to about 1:30, and check out the neat mini-industrial ballet that is this thing in action. And then fantasize about munching on its output— an endless (ok, sort of) supply of fresh-baked muffin. I want one. [Makezine]

robots

Fully Automated Robo-Restaurant Tested (Verdict: Delicious, Fun, No Bloody Tips)

A BBC News crew went to Germany to try 's Baggers, the robotized, fully automated restaurant in which there's not a single waiter in sight and plates float over your head on steel rails to reach your seat, Futurama-style. And apparently, they loved it. More »

wii

Wiimote Curtain Controller Project is Like Resident Evil: Drapes

Standing up and manually closing curtains is for old people and Luddites. What we roll with is of the mechanical variety, preferably hooked up to something like a Wiimote to give it that extra bit of nerdiness. This Wiimote curtain project is exactly what we mean. Sure, it's not 1:1 arm to curtain movement, but that's exactly the point of not wanting to close the curtain with your arm, manually. Isn't it? [Hasse.nl]

automation

A Robot That Pumps Your Gas, At Long Last

God, don't you just hate pumping gas? I mean, you work so hard to be sitting down for as much of the day as possible, be it at your desk, on the couch or behind the wheel, and then you end up having to stand on your legs when you need to refuel. Gross! Well, the days of you pumping your own gas might be coming to the end, as the Dutch have built a gas-pumping robot that takes all the effort out of the exercise.
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clips

The Nutcracker March As Performed By Warehouse Automation Robots

Seeing as we don't specialize in moving boxes around in a gigantic warehouse, we're less than familiar with KIVA Systems and their little orange go-bots. However, when you program anything mechanical to dance to the The Nutcracker March, our interest goes through the roof. What can we say, we love ballet—not to mention little robots that can smash an entire aisle of merchandise on you. [Kiva Systems via IEEE]

almost fantastic

Domia X10 Fake Touchscreen Lighting Control

At first glance this $399 Domia X10 touchscreen control is fantastic. You get a real-picture representation of your room so you can easily select which lights you want to turn on and off. However, the Domia is actually just a fancy picture frame that you stick an actual picture of your room into before configuring the unit with buttons to turn each item on and off. More »

gadgets

Monster AVL300 Crazy Remote Reviewed (Verdict: Looks Like Star Trek, Works Like Star Trek)

The Monster Central Control System AVL300 may look like a Phaser, but the only person you're going to kill is yourself. Why? Because if you can control everything in your house from your couch, you'll never get up again. More »

gadgets

Buttonless Elevators Creep People Out

From a design standpoint, these new buttonless elevators in populated metro areas are great. Enter in the floor you want, and the central computer aggregates adjacent floors so people get where they're going faster. The problem comes when people get on board, change their minds, and freak due to a lack of control. And unlike S&M, there's no safe-word here. More »

mode

SpeakerCraft's In-Wall Keypad Controls Six iPods

Designed for the multimedia home, this MODE wall-interface can control up to six different iPods, hookedup to AM/FM presets, the MODE Jukebox music server, and even XM radio. And if you're too lazy to get up to walk to the wall, there's an infrared receiver so you can remotely control the control to your music. More »

home entertainment

CEDIA 2006: Crestron TPMC-8X, TPMC-4X Touchpanel Media Centers

Crestron's booth was jam-packed with enough home-automation crap to shake a stick at (whatever the hell that means), but there were a couple little gadgets that stood out. These are the Isys i/O WiFi Touchpanel (left) and the Isys i/O Handheld WiFi TouchPanel (right). You need to understand that these aren't remotes that you can just stroll into Best Buy and purchase; they have to be used alongside Crestron's home automation systems that are dealer-installed. With that in mind, check out their semi-awesome remotes, after the jump. More »