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Tiniest. Robots. EVER
I've been hearing this concept tossed around for years now, but apparently, it has now happened: Science (and may I point out that I capitalize 'Science'...
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How To Fix An Xbox 360's RRoD, As Told by Marines
I'm gonna come right out and admit I've never owned an Xbox 360 - but most of my friends have one, so I've still experienced second-hand the Red Ring of...
Rock-em, Sock-em Robot Beats Up Volunteers In the Name of Science
Six Slovenian volunteers have been undergoing a bizarre test: being punched in the arm over, and over, and over, and over again by a robot. A researcher...
Apple's Antenna Lab - One Malevolent Female Robot Away From Being Portal
As Toby mentioned yesterday, Apple is pretty adamant that the signal problem isn't their fault, citing in yesterday's press conference that the problem is...
Death-Fearing Millionaire Commissions Immortal Robot - No, Really
If you're not good and rested, take a nap before continuing with this article - because you're never gonna sleep again. Bina and Martine Rothblatt are an...
Beer with Robots: The Best Thing Since Beer without Robots
Concerned less with bettering mankind so much as revelry, the team at Willow Garage has spent what I can only assume must've been an enormous amount of...
Something Tells Me A Dog Doesn't Know How To Install Webcam Drivers
Behold the tale of two inseparable interspecies buddies, a monkey and dog (only Japan, right?), whose...
'Aggressive' Helicopter is Possibly the Scariest Flying Robot Ever
Huh. Well this sure is scary as hell. Remember Big Dog? This is every bit as terrifying, only this one flies....
The Cutest Robot You've Ever Feared
Hey, y'know Bait Car? Bait Car is great. Bait Car is frequently hilarious. Bait Car comes from Canada. Bait Car has a website. If you're still lost, just...
Robotic Pancreas Makes Diabetes Sufferers Into Cyborgs
I've always been terrified by diabetes. Not that I'm at any risk or anything, it's just the thought of living your life on this weird insulin countdown...
This Week in Robots: Japanese Couple Says 'iDo'
Techi is honor-bound to offer you totally rad (and routinely bizarre) things to read about, and I for one don't like to disappoint, so check this out. In...
Tiniest. Robots. EVER
I've been hearing this concept tossed around for years now, but apparently, it has now happened: Science (and may I point out that I capitalize 'Science'...
Cell Phone Robots Make Calling Out Really Bulky and Awkward, But Are Totally Adorable
Robots, man. Freaking robots. Your robotic fix today comes from PhD student Ji-Dong Yim, who has built two cell phone robots, Callo and Cally (get it?...
Severed Biomechanical Arm Gives New Meaning to 'Robot Rock'
Chris Conte knows how to rock and roll. Or at least how to build machines that can assist in the task. Having been commissioned by Adam Gontier, lead...
Robotic Suit Grants Superhuman Strength, Possibly Revolutionizes... Radish Farming?
You may have heard about Shigeki Toyama and his Power Assist Suit before. Of course, there's every likelihood you haven't. Let's rap about it, let me...
The Chip Gripper, or: You'll Buy Anything A Hot Girl Is Selling
Anyone here familiar with chindōgu? Translated as 'unusual tool', chindōgu is the Japanese art of inventing devices which, while technically solving...
A Robot to Light Up Your Life (or at least your home)
You thought the way the Solar Pebble slapped the sun around was pretty cool, right? Right? Here’s another great way we mancreatures are bringing the sun...
Spike Jonze Proves Robots Can Love
Spike Jonze has teamed up with Absolut v***a to present ‘I’m Here’, a touching short film about robots in love. The best part? The film is available...
Yet Another Thing a Robot Can Do Better than You: Art
Not to come off as a robotics nut, but I’m not letting this one get away and sleeping comfortably tonight. I’m just not. This is amazing, much to my...
New Dental Patient Robot Confirms Everything Japan Does is Kind of Creepy
Meet Hanako. Hanako is a collaboration between three Japanese universities and robotics company Tmsuk. And, quite frankly, Hanako is creepy as all hell. A...
Pimped-Out Batbus Disregards Common Sense and is Completely Badass Anyway
Students at UT Delft in the Netherlands have done something completely inexplicable. They have built a bus. And what a bus it is. Featuring an...
Robots Go To War To Go To War
I’m one of the slim minority who dislikes Terminator. Don’t get me wrong, Schwarzenegger is nothing if not a vastly-talented thespian, I just don’t...
The Little Uglybox That Could Power Your House
Getting off the grid may have just become that much easier. Oorja Protonics in California have developed a methanol fuel cell that could keep your wallet...
And Now, a Message from the Future of Transportation
Unicycles have a history of looking silly. That’s probably because they’re fundamentally so. But this... this... I... I almost have to excuse myself...
A Pirate by Any Other Name Would Still Copy That Floppy
Back in the day, there was no word for Peer-to-Peer filesharing. Today, the phenomenon is widely termed 'piracy'. Maybe that's a little unfair, but then...
Not Exactly the Fattest Beats, but It'll Do...
Surely sometimes even the most digitally-addicted of us wants to ditch the cold machination of musical convenience that is iTunes and put in a little...
Sexy at a Molecular Level. Baby
This image is not a painting of a scene from the world's worst vineyard - it's a molecule of chlorophyll as seen through the eyes of New York artist...
Google Poised to Invade Yet Another Market: Your Living Room
Nobody has their hands in as many industries as Google. Nobody. As early as this summer, we may begin to see GoogleTV - the internet TV joint venture...
NanoNote: Semi...Quasi...Decent-ish Computing for $99!
The "本 NanoNote" is something I can't even decide what to classify as, let alone formulate an opinion of. A 'copyleft' hardware device, this little,...
Legacy archive
Pre-pivot work
574 articles from Ty Dunitz's earlier era on TECHi (pre-2026 financial-coverage pivot). URLs still resolve and Google can crawl them, but they're not on the current beat.
Facebook gets literal
Word on the tubes is that Facebook is about to drop live, in-browser video chat next week. According to Zuck, Facebook will be unveiling an...
GPS tech turns on a light for the blind
The visually impaired don't get a lot of help when it comes to next-gen tech to help them better live autonomous lives. For generations, the most...
Valve + Nintendo = Gaming heaven?
Valve and Nintendo have sort of been gaming chalk and cheese in the past - but that may not be so forever! Valve co-founder Gabe Newell has whispered what...
Foursquare hits the big one-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Your service is probably pretty fly if you've hit ten million users, and Foursquare as of Monday has become such a service. Foursquare, in case you're...
Maybe Jobs was right when he used the term 'magic' after all...
Magician Marco Tempest has coined possibly the coolest term you're gonna hear all week: technoillusionist. What is a technoillusionist? Why, a magician...
Where 'toy' ends, and 'badass' begins
Add to your personal list of things that don't need to exist (everyone keeps one of those, right?) this remote-controlled car, which has the singular...
Driving to a different tune with Soundtracks
Are you about ready to throw your car stereo in the trash? You're about to be. Students Robbin Ingvarsson and Waldemar Wegelin have designed what they...
Twitter hops into bed with iOS 5 for some 'deep integration'
Monday is going to be an interesting day, to say the least. Rumours surrounding WWDC '11 concern all sorts of neat stuff, including but not limited to...
Photography past meets present - best iPhone accessory ever?
It doesn't get more awesome than this. It does not get more awesome than this. I don't think anyone can argue that the iPhone already takes pretty swell...
Location-based album launches musical elitism to new heights
Do you exist? Do you like music? If you answered yes to both questions, you'll likely find this pretty neat. Bluebrain, a band based out of Washington DC,...
Interaction design taken way, way, way too far
I'm not trying to say the folks at the Hasso-Plattner Institute are crazy, but guys: the folks at the Hasso-Plattner Institute are crazy. Introducing the...
Infographic of Microsoft's vast legacy of acquisition
Courtesy of information designer Robin Richards, check this out: a visual map of all 264 companies Microsoft has acquired in its endless quest to dominate...
Lego Super-8 camera only further proof that Lego really can solve every problem
I dream of a world wherein we've built everything out of Lego, simply because we can. A post-apocalyptic future after which we've rebuilt humanity from...
iPhone 5 dropping on November 21st?
According to British gadget mag T3, the iPhone 5 (or 4S, depending on which rumours you're believing) could be on its way to the UK on November 21st -...
Getting your Oona on
It's a camera mount! It's a smartphone stand! It's a dashboard GPS adapter! It's a chunk of aluminum with a...
And you were never without internets again
In the market for a new computer? How does 25 bucks fetch ya? Cooked up by game developer David Braben, 'Raspberry Pi' is a PC he's hoping to market to...
Because YouTube is just too damn fast
In a head-scratchingly bass-ackwards marketing decision, you can now send recorded videos to friends and family (and enemies, I guess - who are we to...
The console you never knew you wanted
YouTubist EdsJunk wants to build you an Xbox Slim laptop - and he's not above charging you hard-earned...
Users furrow their class-action brows at Google over privacy... again
Good luck, guys. Two Michigan residents are filing a class-action suit against Google over the sudden location-tracking brouhaha that's been going down in...
Wii successor set to take E3 by storm
Well, it's certainly about time. Nintendo has confirmed that the rumoured 'Project Café' - the whispered-of successor to the rapidly-aging Wii - will be...
Facebook's 'Like' button turns 1
The Like button turns a year old today. I'd say that it seems like only yesterday that we were 'becoming fans' of things, but that would be a lie - can...
New Nintendo console in June? It's about time
Kotaku is reporting that Nintendo might be dialing up the awesome (finally) in preparation to debut a new console this year at E3 - a console that will...
The origami phone - because... well... why not?
It's still sort of interesting to ponder about the passing of the telephonic torch - that the shorthand 'phone' now typically refers exclusively to mobile...
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