Shoulder robot for the forever alone

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Don't have anyone to share activities with? Forget Siri, she's just a disembodied voice in a box. You need to get yourself a shoulder-mounted robot pal. The idea behind this design actually has something to do with telepresence. Let's say you and your best friend want to go check out the local Hackerspace. The problem is that you met your best friend on the Internet and they live thousands of … [Read more...]

Giants roam Berlin

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I can hear the comments now: "Not a hack." Yeah that might be true, but it's still enormous puppets running around Berlin - that in its own right is pretty cool. The show, put on by the street theater group Royal De Luxe, is part of the 20th anniversary for the fall of the Berlin Wall. Spectators watched as the Big Giant rose from the water in search of his niece, the Little Giantess. We won't … [Read more...]