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These cute little blocks are called Cubelets. Each one is a robot, with unique programming, capabilities and behaviors. But, the magic happens when you stick the blocks together, and they cooperate to create an entirely new robot: Each Cubelet has a tiny computer inside of it and is a robot in its own right. So when you put blocks together, you’re actually making a robot out of several smaller robots.
Cubelets Now Available For Pre-Order | BotJunkie
The Autostadt is a visitor attraction adjacent to the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, with a prime focus on automobiles. It features a museum, feature pavilions for the principal automobile brands in the Volkswagen Group, a customer center where German customers can pick up new cars, and take a tour through the enormous factory, a guide to the evolution of roads, and cinema in a large sphere. It is also home to the largest glass doors in the world and the longest printed line.
Shelving for Cars - Dumage
Miniature Kinetic Sculptures Are the Coolest Snail Mail You Could Possibly Send Someone
Stamps and envelopes and mailboxes—I DON'T DO THAT. But these MechaniCards—a set of five intricate and mesmerizing handcrafted mechanical sculptures you can send in the mail—are awesome enough to get me back standing in line for postage. Each MechaniCard is hand made by artist Bradley N. Litwin. The Radial Engine, the first card shown in the video, is currently available for $45.Concept Alarm Clock Pillow Will Vibrate You Awake
This concept combines the best part of sleeping, your pillow, with the worst part of sleeping, your alarm clock. You pull the tab to set the alarm and when the time is right, the entire pillow vibrates to wake you up. I don't know, though I love the two birds one stone idea, I kind of want to wake up pleasantly, to like nature noises, not in panic thinking there's an earthquake. Maybe we can find other uses for vibration pillows. [ Yanko Design ]
This interesting eco-hotel, “mirrorcube”, is located on a tree, about 15m above the ground; made by a Swedish architectural firm Tham & Videgard Hansson Arkitekter. In the cube with dimensions of 4m, covered with mirrors, there is a kitchen, living room, bedroom, and terrace. From these rooms offers a wonderful view of 360 degrees on the forest and animals in it. The rooms are perfectly comfortable and pleasant. The hotel is located in northern Sweden, about 60 miles south of the Arctic Circle, in the village Harads, and anyone who wants to socialize with nature can visit it.
Invisible Hotel – Tree House - Weird Existence
Photos: Courtesy of DosUno Design. Another product from Colombian studio DosUno Design (whose Rubix transformer furniture set we reviewed yesterday), Deckstool is a simple wood mat that folds into a stool. Example of the deckstool folding into a seat. The idea is pretty simple but it would be interesting to explore it for other types of furniture: a mat with broader pieces of wood could make a neat table or desk, and unfold into a flat, thin structure for easy transportation. As we mentioned in our previous article about them, DosUno Design is a studio based in Bogota, Colombia, run by locally-raised Santiago Restrepo and Israel native Assaf Wexler.
Neat Wood Mat Folds Into A Stool, Disappears In The Floor When Done : TreeHugger
Despite making almost everything we use every day of our lives work, power cables are despised, and we haven't innovated our way out of them yet. This nesting concept cable, however, aims to tame the jungle. But would it work?
Would These Concept Power Cables Make Your Life Easier?
Those are not flares or artificial lighting or a Photoshop job. And it's not a teleporting sequence from a sci-fi movie either. It's the Kopps-Etchells Effect. This is how it happens, according to Command Sergeant Major Jeff Mellinger: Basically it is a result of static electricity created by friction as materials of dissimilar material strike against each other.
What Is Going On With This Helicopter?
The Signa bike runs on fuel cells . But instead of making you carry hydrogen next to your butt, it uses a new, clever, safer method: It runs on cells full of a sand-like powder. You just have to add water.
Electric Bike Runs on Water and Magic Powder
There's no dearth of sophisticated gear for the aspirational ATM thief. But skimmers don't exactly have an aisle at Wal-Mart. In this Gizmodo investigation, we take a look at the scary internet black market where fraudsters get their tools. When it comes to new and creative ways of pilfering personal financial data, ATM crime is enjoying something of a renaissance here in the US.
How Anyone Can Fake an ATM and Steal Your Money
One of These Amazing Inventions Will Win the International Dyson Award Next Week
There are just four days until the international winner of the James Dyson Awards is announced from one of the following 15 finalists. Some amazing inventions are up for it, including that water sterilization bottle from the UK. Check out the finalists in the video montage here, and fight it out in the comments below as to which one you think should win the award. I'm leaning towards the electric bike/trike hybrid, but the buoyancy aid from Australia is a novel idea also. [ James Dyson Awards ]Inside the San Francisco Fire Department's Wooden Ladder Factory
Gizmodo is making some changes to its comment system that will require you to log in with a Facebook, Google, or Twitter account. You must convert your account to one of these services in order to continue using your account. Converting your account on Gizmodo will do so on all Gawker Media Sites.Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 1 of October , 2010 at 2:27 am This is a set of all of the different long exposure pics that I’ve taken while doing reviews of cleaning robots. I spent a likely excessive amount of time reviewing each robot in detail (and you can read those reviews at the links below), but really, the pictures explain the cleaning patterns better than I ever could. It’s illuminating (so to speak) to see them all right up against one another, so here they are:
Long Exposure Pictures Of Robots Cleaning | BotJunkie
Skip Single Purpose Wall Chargers; Buy a USB Hub for Cheap Multi-Gadget Charging
While we tend to think of USB hubs as computer accessories that help us connect more gear to the limited ports on our computers, they're equally as effective at replacing overpriced USB wall chargers and provide juice for more gadgets. Lifehacker reader jcrashmiller001 thought it was ridiculous to pay almost as much for a single-cord USB charger as you'd pay for a brand new USB hub. Rather than pay upwards of $15.00 for a USB Wall charger for my phone or iPod, I use a $20 powered USB hub. I can charge more at once for a lot less per port, and I use less outlets on the wall.io9 is making some changes to its comment system that will require you to log in with a Facebook, Google, or Twitter account. You must convert your account to one of these services in order to continue using your account. Converting your account on io9 will do so on all Gawker Media Sites.