Someone please tell me how anyone can justify manufacturing/buying a Chanel designed Segway in times like these.  I’m not a Segway hater, but this is  nothing but consumer elitism.

For all the “big-boned” out there, This is why you’re fat…

It looks like Japan’s roboticists have finally come up with an answer to the country’s shrinking work force and growing elderly population. Murata Machinery has developed a robot capable of performing many of the duties of a human nurse such as delivering medication to patients during late night hours…dvice.com

Oh yeah,  just what that confused, demented patient needs to see rolling in her room, Rosie the robo-nurse.

Think about it…

Rare jujitsu footage from the 20′s-30′… Read the rest of this entry »

Happy Valentine’s Day… dvice.com

The Sapporo Snow Festival ( Sapporo Yuki-matsuri ) is a famous festival held annually in Sapporo, Japan over seven days in February. Currently, Odori Park, Susukino, and Tsudome are the main sites of the festival. In 2009, it will be held from February 5 to February 11...wikipedia.org

One man’s shitload of snow is another man’s snow festival.

The picture speaks for itself…scifi.com

Rather than making a large tower constructed from numerous materials (ABS plastic, aluminum, steel, etc.), hundreds of manufacturing processes, and dozens of individual components, the Recompute case is made of corrugated cardboard (recyclable and renewable). There are four low-impact manufacturing processes to assemble Recompute: Die cutting, gluing (with non-toxic white glue), printing and electronic assembly. Recompute uses only three major electronic components: A motherboard with processor & memory, power supply, and a hard drive…neatorama.com