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TECHi Invention showcases the patents, prototypes, and R&D breakthroughs that have not hit mainstream yet. Robotics advances, drone innovations, biotech intersections, and the experimental technology that could define the next decade. First looks at what is coming before the market catches on.

Eat Your Heart Out, Kinect – Robot Arm Mimics Your Gestures

Eat Your Heart Out, Kinect – Robot Arm Mimics Your Gestures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjbZYN1Db14 How cool is this? The answer, before you read any further or watch the video for additional information, is...

Japanese Robot Can (Almost) Run – We Are So Doomed

Japanese Robot Can (Almost) Run – We Are So Doomed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXqUjiNw8fo Am I the only one who finds this terrifying? Like, sure, it's not quite as immediately scary as Boston...

Apple Jumps Aboard the 3D Bandwagon with New Patent

Apple Jumps Aboard the 3D Bandwagon with New Patent

FFS, Apple. FFS. Just as I - and, perhaps, many of you - thought that this whole 3D ballyhoo was...

Gesture-Controlled Robot is Possibly the Most Fun You’ll Ever Have With Kinect

Gesture-Controlled Robot is Possibly the Most Fun You’ll Ever Have With Kinect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRPEns8MS2o Alright, so maybe I'm being a little cheeky by claiming that this robot is the most fun you could...

Your Halloween Costume Will Never Be As Ambitious As This. Ever

Your Halloween Costume Will Never Be As Ambitious As This. Ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pucbRCRHxk Oh, hey, I just realized I'm an inconsiderate jerk, and never asked you how your Halloween was. How'd it...

ASIMO Tears Up the Dancefloor at His 10th Birthday Bash

ASIMO Tears Up the Dancefloor at His 10th Birthday Bash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShhatJB8xyk Morning, all - or, afternoon, as it were. I trust your Halloween was both hollow and weeny? Mine sure...

Mad Scientist Dooms Us All With Self-Replicating Lego Menace, Or Something

Mad Scientist Dooms Us All With Self-Replicating Lego Menace, Or Something

This is just downright threatening. Software engineer Will Gorman has seen fit to play god and create a robot out...

Robot Curtain Makes Privacy Cool Again

Robot Curtain Makes Privacy Cool Again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhbUjVyKIc Niklas Roy's workshop has a large window right in front. After getting fed up of passersby peering in, he...

Rock-em, Sock-em Robot Beats Up Volunteers In the Name of Science

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...

No Pirates, Princesses, or Pokémon, Please

No Pirates, Princesses, or Pokémon, Please

What's your kid wearing for Halloween? He's not going as Batman, is he? I see, like, a trillion child Batmans...

Because There’s Always Room For More Gundams

Because There’s Always Room For More Gundams

I have a couple friends who are big into building scale models of Gundams. I've never really understood the appeal...

A Retweeting Twitter Bot That Knows It Serves No Actual Purpose

A Retweeting Twitter Bot That Knows It Serves No Actual Purpose

One of the great things about Twitter is that it's actually pretty easy to control and inhibit spam. SEO people...

The War On Privacy Goes Even Higher Tech

The War On Privacy Goes Even Higher Tech

It's well known that Facebook and Google are in a war to see who invade their users privacy to the...

German Researchers Take Gaming Peripherals to Their Logical Conclusion

German Researchers Take Gaming Peripherals to Their Logical Conclusion

Microsoft's Kinect would have you believe that no controller is the way of the future for gaming. Microsoft's Kinect would...

When Digital Distribution Becomes Art

When Digital Distribution Becomes Art

You know what's too cool? This is. In an exploration of digital content delivery, record label Ghostly International is debuting...

Death-Fearing Millionaire Commissions Immortal Robot – No, Really

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...

Beer with Robots: The Best Thing Since Beer without Robots

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...

Would You Take A Zero-G Holiday?

Would You Take A Zero-G Holiday?

Once upon a time we’d take fast fairground rides to get a sense of it, nowadays we can actually, you...

Groping People In Second Life Is About To Get Way More Real

Groping People In Second Life Is About To Get Way More Real

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxlYY0xo4gk So, okay. It's possible that feeling up a virtual hottie is not quite what the designers of this incredible...

Facebook, The Movie: This Holiday Season?

Facebook, The Movie: This Holiday Season?

Gear up for the white knuckle thrill ride of the holiday season that will speak to the soul of every...