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format war

HD DVD's Animatronic Secret Weapon Not Enough to Defeat Blu-ray

As if 1080p video, full-resolution audio, net connectivity and multi-tuner signal decoding wasn't enough, Toshiba's HD DVD team had even cooked up a system of embedded animatronic control before the format was put out of its misery. In this video left over from CES 2008, this little mechanical jazz band playing the Duke Ellington classic "Take the A Train" is controlled by, that's right, an HD DVD disc. Here's how:
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5:40 PM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Benny Goldman
6,335 views, 16 comments

elmo

First Video of Elmo Live Singing and Dancing Shows He Got Skillz

Holy crap, I want this Elmo, and I don't even like Sesame Street. It makes Pleo look like a dumb hunk of plastic. The ways it moves and interacts is incredible—it tells stories, sings songs, dances and is simply the most expressive toy we've ever seen. It even yells out "Jazz Hands!" when he finish performing his newest rap hit, "Elmo's Gotta Get On Up." More information and videos after the jump.

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11:10 AM on Thu Feb 14 2008
By Benny Goldman
110,362 views, 130 comments

Latest by n/a: Holy crap, I'm transfixed on the guy who wills Elmo to life. I can only imagine the angst he'll feel for each little Elmo package that leaves his care..."Elmo misses you..." more »

robots

Robovie-X 'Bot Fires Missiles at Moving Targets, Plays Dress-Up


Robovie-X is a new robot kit from Japanese DIY maker ATR. Not only can it use its fully-programmable 17 degrees of freedom and optical distance sensors to follow moving targets and fire at them with a surprisingly powerful plastic missile launcher, it can also, apparently, shed its armor and dress up as a jazz-hands-waving Foghorn Leghorn or a white-gloved Michael Jackson archer. You know, if you're into that kind of thing. Check out more pics and a video of the missiles in action after the jump.
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10:44 PM on Wed Dec 5 2007
By dango
3,166 views, 13 comments

Latest by citizen.lambda: I, for one, bow before our new robotic plastic-shooting overlords. PS: sorry, but SOMEONE had to say it. :p more »

laptops

Jazzmutant Multitouch Tablet PC Demoed

Here's a video of the multi-touch tablet PC prototype that Jazzmutant showed off last week at Siggraph. It's got the pinch and spread features that Apple popularized on the iPhone, but this can actually take an unlimited number of contact points. You can use as many fingers (or styluses) as you were born with to move and spread stuff around. We could see this in a tablet, but replacing the traditional mouse and keyboard in a laptop is pretty unlikely. [Jazz Mutant]

12:20 PM on Fri Aug 17 2007
By Jason Chen
3,076 views, 14 comments

Latest by jrghoull: i just got a new hp touch screen laptop...unless the sensitivity can be adjusted...the touch screens stink. i think it will take something like this to make it decent. while i wasnt expecting to be able to do what they more »