Robots Making Your Food

This sushi-making robot, along with the Okonomiyaki robot and the omelet robot, aren't new, but they are featured in this NYT story about chef robots to get you up to speed on machine-prepared cuisine.

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Don't Hookah and Drive

Just a friendly reminder not to hookah and drive this weekend. Not because you'll get in an accident. Because it looks suggestive.

Who does that?

Sound Scrape Concept Projects Images To Match The Music Being Played

iTunes visualizations are nice to look at, but this Sound Scape concept looks a treat with the inbuilt LED projector beaming visuals out to match the music being played. It's all based on nature, so if you're playing 50 Cent don't expect images of guns to be projected. Instead, the concept renders show fluffy clouds and relaxing pools of water. A stone-like controller can change tracks or volume—or at least would do, if it was actually a real product. Sadly this concept is as real as the cerulean clouds it projects.


I want it.

Astronauts Turn International Space Station Into TIE Fighter

Your Future Morning View Will Make You Vomit

Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

Current augmented reality : Computers recognizing your surroundings and overlaying useful information over the real world. Future advertising-driven augmented reality according to Keiichi Matsudafor: A mind blowing view that will make everyone of us puke. Even his simulation makes me dizzy. The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in which we operate within it.

This makes me dizzy but its really amazing.

iDrift Gaming Peripheral Concept For The iPad Will Be A Reality Soon, I'm Sure

The iPad's not even on sale yet, but that hasn't stopped designer Michael Greenberg from imagining a gaming peripheral for it. Like the wheels built for the Wiimote, the iDrift could help aid in turning sharp corners when gaming.

Mu Space Music Player Transforms Into a Bed

the Mu Space music player is a bed box. Its body carries a soft bed inside, doubling as an audio pillow thanks to its rotating speakers. You just have to open it, unfold the bed, turn the speakers inside, and get to sleep listening to slumbering songs. Simple.