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Friday, July 20th, 2007This is Part Two in a three-part series on Real-Life Batman.
Part One: You don’t have to be rich to be Batman.
Part Three: You can stop wondering what Batman looks like in real life
Imagine the Batmobile that real-life, budget-conscious Batman (or, “Batguy“) would drive. When you create that mental picture, keep in mind that his [...]
RoboGames 2007: Crabfu Steamworks
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007I salvaged a few more images from my limited set of RoboGames 2007 pictures.
I-Wei Huang and his Crabfu Steamworks made an appearance. His booth was drawing a crowd the last time I saw him, too, at Maker Faire. Perhaps you saw coverage of him in today’s WIRED story about steampunk mods. (Way to be about [...]
RoboGames 2007: RoboBoxing
Sunday, June 17th, 2007This weekend saw the first-ever official robot boxing bout. And the first-ever robot boxing knock-out. (Thank Cracker Jack for the knock-out, because the boxing itself was a bit slower than expected.)
Keep your eyes peeled for more news from this burgeoning sport, this is only the… the…. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Ahem. Sorry, what?
If you enjoyed this [...]
RoboGames 2007: BattleBots Robot Combat
Sunday, June 17th, 2007Just got back from RoboGames 2007, “the world’s largest open robot competition,” held in the Festival Pavilion at San Francisco’s Fort Mason pier. Plenty of wickedly-ingenious robotics put to imaginative uses. (What is: The definition of “geek porn,” Alex?) Check out Zou Ren Ti, who has created his own android doppelganger.
Of [...]
Amazon.com Gives Star Wars Game A Poop-Star Rating
Thursday, June 14th, 2007Either Amazon’s product-recommendation engine has sprouted an insidiously wry sense of humor, or one of the code monkeys in the Amazon offices is having a bit of fun.
Check out the product page for the Firstrax Poop Patrol Jaw Scoop. According to Amazon, this doggy-pooper-scooper is “Better Together” with the Lego Star Wars II: The Original [...]
Muppets Starring in The Lord of the Rings
Thursday, May 31st, 2007Silver Snail Comics, the Little Comic Book Shop that Could, in Toronto, Canada, has crafted the best storefront window scene since Andrew McCarthy posed a Kim-Cattrall-shaped dummy in the front window of Prince & Co. department store in 1987’s Mannequin.
Those brilliant Canucks have recreated the Helm’s Deep scene from LOTR: The Two Towers with Muppets, [...]