Oh Clocky - where were you when we missed our final exams in college? Chasing your alarm clock around will definitely get your blood flowing early in the morning and get you to your exams. Clocky will not turn off until you find it, and laying there with Clocky roaming around won't make sleeping in easy either.
Wall-E Movie Robot is Jonathan Ive's Latest Design
Eve, the female character to stand opposite Wall-E the new Pixar movie focused on robots was designed in part by Apple lead designer Jonathan Ive. But what's funny about it being "designed by Ive" is the fact he didn't do any of the designs - he just gave approval with simple nods of his head to the ones he liked presented by the Pixar team. Ive has had little to say about the design for the robot for fear of giving away the possible design direction of what he was doing for Apple in the future. Oh well - the design is very striking, and we think a good pick if you ask us, even if it is a little iPod like.
Sherlockbot - The Investigative Robot of the Future
Sherlockbot is a short by Waverly films - a group of Brooklyn film that posts weekly clips to there site. Sherlock bot is a gem. In the distant future a lonely boy creates a robot to help him find the thief who broke into his piggy bank. Hilarity and mayhem ensues...
We're not sure you can have a Robot blog without covering products from iRobot, and that's not a bad thing. We love our little Roomba vacuum cleaning robot, and think they're hard to beat. Recently iRobot has improved the Roomba with the 500 series.
The robots are much more reliable and some of the upgrades include:
Improved cleaning performance
Improved navigation
Easier to use, maintain and upgrade
Voice demonstration
Virtual Wall® Lighthouse™
Amazing pickup
Larger filter
Won't get stuck
Lower maintenance
On-board Scheduling
Wireless Command Center
We've seen the new 500 series in action, and it really has improved from earlier Roomba models. We noticed the Roomba 500 series doesn't get stuck on the edges of carpets as much (it can still get stuck). We also like the on-board scheduling feature.
For competition however you can look to lots of different robot vacuum products if Roomba isn't for you. Other robot vacuums include the Infinuvo Cleanmate and the Vesture TrackVac. We'll cover these as we get more details on them.
There's really nothing like a chattering robot dog to wake you in the morning or when you get a new email. The WowWee Chatterbot will not only chatter whatever info you feed it, but you can be rest assured it will eventually drive you nuts.
The $49.99 Chatterbot is available in three characters, the Devil/Angel, Dog, and the Fairy Godfather.
Works with email, calendar events, instant messaging programs and more!
“Speaks” through its own built-in speaker
Connects to computer via USB Plug in an MP3 player to use as a standalone speaker*
Easy to install software compatible with both PC and Intel® Macs For interactive fun, trigger random comments and factoids
If you're looking for a pretty impressive set of mostly CGI Robots, the look no further than the below Part I and Part II of the most striking Robots Ever! We really like the Obsolete Robot above. Like most "tech workers" he seems like he's somehow worked himself out of a job.
For $14.99 you can get one of these robo shaped desk vacuums, and finally clean up those pencil shavings. Simply push the top button to activate suction and slide over dry crumbs, pencil shavings or other debris. Powered by two AA batteries (not included). We're pretty fond of the blue-black robot, but perhaps RED is all the rage in desktop robot vacuums these days.
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