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Is Manekin Robotto America’s Next Top Model?

Click to viewAdd fashion models to the list of professionals who could find themselves replaced by robots in the workplace. The Hyogo Prefectural Institute of Technology has introduced Manekin Robotto, a programmable robot designed to tread the catwalk. After the jump, we examine how this mechanical model stacks up against the flesh and blood version.…

io9 Lauren Davis Jul 6

DIY Robot Does 3D Carving: Self-Replication Still Far-Off

Robots robots robots… from sexy ones to fighting ones, we love them here at Giz. But this amazing project by Matt Denton over at Robosavvy has me in two minds. It’s a modified DIY hexapod robot with a motorised Dremel-tool nose, and Matt’s written some code that lets the robot move the cutting tool with…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jun 11

Starfighting In The Museum Of The Improbable

This awesome model of a starfighter, complete with a helpful little refueling probe-bot, is one of the models available at The Museum of the Improbable. Artist Greg deSantis has also created incredible concept models of a reimagined Nautilus from 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, amazing steampunk British tanks, space pirates boarding a ship through a…

io9 Kevin Kelly Mar 12

Weird Combo of the Day: Microsoft Surface Model is Also an American Gladiators Contestant

Has it really been that long since we’ve had a Weird Combo of the Day? Well, it’s back, and we’ve got an especially weird Weird Combo of the Day for you today. Do you remember Monica, the woman that’s in all the press photos and web videos for Microsoft’s Surface table? Turns out she’s a…

Tech News Jason Chen Feb 12

Lego Master Completes 30-Pound Star Wars Starship Model

After a mammoth building session, Lego master Mark Kelso has just recently put the last brick on his model of the Invisible Hand, General Grevious’ ship from Star Wars Episode III. Yes, that photo of him and his model is to scale—it’s frickin’ massive. It took an equally massive 9 months to build too: The…

Tech News Kit Eaton Jan 18

Power House Kit: Your Action Figures Are Going Green

It is high-time that your Star Wars figures, GI Joes and Barbies woke up from their fantasy worlds and realized that in the real world, there are limits to the power we can consume. The first step in their education would be to move into one of these Power Houses and learn what life would…

Tech News Sean Fallon Dec 4

Star Trek Enterprise Phone

That’s right, you actually use the USS Enterprise as a handset—not a communicator or a phaser like a non-crazy product designer would have you use. And for $98, you get a William Shatner signature, a numbered certificate, a ringer that sounds like the Red Alert noise, and even redial and mute buttons. Much like the…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 9

Five Feet of Green Frankenstein Fun

This five-foot-tall animated Frankenstein’s monster will move its arms, twist its hips and play spooky noises through its integrated speakers whenever it detects someone walking past. Adults will get a kick out of it, and children will never sleep properly again. The monster is accurate all the way down to the neck bolts and sutured…

Tech News Msparkes Aug 10

Tornado Sim: Not in Kansas Any More

We likes us some tornadoes around here, especially since one of our esteemed colleagues lives in Tornado Alley, and sometimes shudders in fear that he may be tempest tos’t some night à la Wizard of Oz. But no need to fear when you have this tornado on your desk, a store-bought model similar to the…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 27

Is Manekin Robotto America’s Next Top Model?

DIY Robot Does 3D Carving: Self-Replication Still Far-Off

Starfighting In The Museum Of The Improbable

Weird Combo of the Day: Microsoft Surface Model is Also an American Gladiators Contestant

Lego Master Completes 30-Pound Star Wars Starship Model

Power House Kit: Your Action Figures Are Going Green

Star Trek Enterprise Phone

Five Feet of Green Frankenstein Fun

Tornado Sim: Not in Kansas Any More

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