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Complete with build instructions for the design engineer who likes the silly side of inventing things and enjoys building stuff in his and her spare time, these gadgets range from highly silly and impractical to extraordinarily inspirational for your own engineering design work.
This friends could be the future... and it comes from 2003! A friend told me last week about plans he had seen for an entire computer confined to five pen-shaped objects. With mobile phone functionality, too.
At first I didn't believe him. I could see how most of the computer would work like this, flash memory can be confined to brilliantly small spaces and there are devices on the market at the moment that can project a virtual keyboard onto a work surface. However what about the CPU and the monitor, how could they fit into something the size of an ordinary pen?
A good one for a Friday afternoon - 'Murata Boy' in action, one of the highlights from the show floor of Electronica 2008. We've highlighted it as part of our Electronica Roundup, but it's worthy of a post to itself on Gadget Master, I think.
If you couldn't catch the demonstration of sensor technology in motion, as the robot balances his bike along a narrow rail, check out our seven minute video of the cycling action.
Wow! This is amazing. Apparently dubbed the Kabutom MX-03, this giant "robot" weighs 15-tons, but can be driven from a cockpit or by remote control. Thanks to TechEBlog for this one.
Following on from the recent Top Ten Robots You Won't Believe Exist, this one caught my eye over the weekend. One for the Robot Watch category (one day, they will take over the world...).
Number #3 in that list was Toyota's trumpet playing robot, and now, make way for his violin-playing sibling.
Check out the video below of the Toyota droid playing a tradional tune at the Japanese Pavilion, in the Shanghai World Expo 2010, which is currently underway.
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This friends could be the future... and it comes from 2003! A friend told me last week about plans he had seen for an entire computer confined to five pen-shaped objects. With mobile phone functionality, too.
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