A group of Chinese guys built an awesome looking life-sized BumbleBee Transformers robot model in Shanghai for the 2010 Cybertron Annual Meeting. This cool Transformers robot weighs at approximately 8 tons and measures a grand 7 meters tall.
Apart from the fact that this cool-looking Bumblebee Transformers robot looks just as cool as in the cartoon and movie, the hidden surprise is that this model is entirely made out of scrap metal!
Kudos to the artists and their creative minds for being able to produce a masterpiece from recycled materials.
However when it comes to size the Transformers in general still don’t quite measure up to the life-size RX-78-2 Gundam that was recently located to Shizuoka, Japan.
If you have always aspired to be a movie director, a clapperboard is definitely the most important tool for filming. For real and imaginary directors alike, this clapperboard digital alarm clock is definitely a fun and cool item to own in your room.
This does look like one of those professional equipment seen on movie sets and it even goes a step further compared to typical alarm clocks by displaying time down to the centisecond. Centi-second? Yes that’s a second divided by a hundred.
The fun actually arrives every morning when the alarm goes off. To shut off the alarm, all that needs to be done is to use the clapper just like on a real movie set. Just don’t get carried away clapping at it until you forget the time. The director’s clapperboard digital alarm clock is available at $99.99 on Amazon.
The common puppets most of us know are the ones that are controlled either with hands or are made to move around using strings, but these Karakuri Ningyou or Japanese mechanical puppets will amaze you when you see them!
Arrow-shooting puppet
These wind-up mechanical puppets that originated from 17th to 19th century Japan are able to perform complex actions as a form of performance with a wound-up spring or by turning its handle.
How such actions are produced without additional intervention by its owner during the entire event is part of the mystery in the performance; which goes to show the amazing imagination of the puppets’ inventors and their creative and profound engineering skills.
Japanese Magician puppet
Acrobatics puppet
These are some good examples of these cool Japanese Karakuri Ningyou mechanical puppets, and after watching these videos I’m still quite amazed.
Here’s a USB connector design that solves the problem of not having enough USB ports for the increasing amount of USB gadgets these days.
The Tandem USB connector is a design by Yi Fan Lin & Hong Yih Chu that incorporates a female connector at the back of an existing male USB connection jack. This allows another USB device to piggy-back on the one first one and beyond.
The theoretically limit (without considering power consumption) for daisy-chaining USB devices on a single port is 127 devices, so it’s almost impossible to reach that limit for typical PC users.
While it does indeed solve the problem at hand, the drawback is that there’s no way to only detach a USB gadget from the front if there are multiple devices lining up behind it in the chain.
A good workaround to reduce the chances of having to remove an entire USB chain is to sort the USB devices in order of volatility, which is simply inserting them in order of ‘most-unlikely-to-be-detached’ to ‘most-likely’.
‘WTF’ is one of the most common acronyms used to describe stuff that is unusual and obnoxious and even I myself use it on a daily basis. If simply saying it isn’t enough for you, here’s a funny WTF self-inking stamp that’ll enable you to literally label things that are truly out of the ordinary. A good way to use it is to label articles on tabloids and magazines first before passing it on to your friends and colleagues for reading.
This is a pretty interesting stamp compared to other common and boring self-inking stamps out there, but I hope an elementary teacher does not start stamping kids’ assignments with this. The WTF self-inking stamp is available on Amazon at $8.99 each.
This looks pretty interesting. A Japanese guy dropped a slice of tuna sashimi on an iPad, and a spark of creativity went off in his head. Since the iPad is flat, it can surely be used as a serving dish, albeit an expensive one.
Simply by using the iPad to display an image of a serving dish, one can enjoy food such as sashimi, curry rice and grilled meat on a variety of serving plates without the need to purchase them in the first place!
I guess food such as sashimi will not taste as great after it has been warmed by the heat from the iPad, in addition to a fishy smell left on it after use.
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iPhone docks come in all shapes and sizes, and here’s one that pretty unique-looking, an iPhone/iPod dock that has been carved out of a wooden log. This wooden iPhone dock also comes with built-in speakers that have been made to fit within the log itself, so it gives a classic look to a modern accessory like a docking station.
The natural grain on the finished cedar wood is definitely the highlight of this handcrafted product. If you’re willing to spend a little more to get a unique-looking dock, this wooden log iPhone dock is available for $238 on Etsy.
Lego Facebook – Flickr user powerpig shows us how it’ll look like if Lego minifigs start using their own social networking site..
Sniper Stand – A simple addon to the back of an iPhone 4 that turns any credit card into an iPhone stand.
Voltron Flash Drive – A USB flash drive shaped like a robot from a very popular classic animation series.
Multi-display iPod cluster – This cool multi-display setup by Mongoose Studio uses 12 iPods for display and the 13th as a controller for showing videos and movies. Cool to look at, probably a pain to recharge.
Blended Vuvuzela – The World Cup 2010 finally comes to an end, and we welcome the demise of this notorious noisemaker. The famous Blendtec blender does the job for us.
Sidewalk Super Mario – A cool video of the entire Super Mario game superimposed onto a real life sidewalk. Includes the entire game-play till the end where Mario finally reaches princess Peach after defeating Bowser.
Cute Baby Stormtrooper – The most adorable Star Wars stormtrooper in training ever.
Beer Bottle Driving – A Chinese man creates a spectacle by driving across two upright rows of bottles.
This is the third Chobi mini camera that is featured on Internet Siao. While the first one was tiny, the second one was both tiny and waterproof. This third version of the Chobi mini camera, the G200 addresses a problem both the other two versions faced: a feature that allowed the user to preview photographs before they are captured. Without a viewfinder or LCD screen, there’s absolutely no way to do that on the earlier models.
The latest Chobi G200 mini digital camera comes with an additional LCD screen compared to its older models. With an LCD screen in place, it does start to look worthy as an alternative piece of gadgetry for trigger-happy casual photographers. Sporting a 1.44 inch TFT LCD, this miniature digital camera captures videos at 640×480 at 30fps besides being able to taking photos at up to 2560×1920 resolution.
With an LCD screen running on such a small device, the remaining concern some of us may have will be its battery life. However it does contain enough power to run for approximately 2hrs 15mins in video mode on a 180-minute charge, which is pretty good for a digital camera this small. The Chobi G200 mini digital camera is available at Geek Stuff 4 U for 17,500 yen.
Feel like drumming up a beat while travelling on public transportation? Or you suddenly have the urge to drum along to your favorite tunes on your mp3 player? The portable pocket drummer will let you play the drums as long as you have two available thumbs for hitting the buttons on this keychain sized musical gadget.
Each button on the pocket drummer corresponds to the four most common sounds available on a set of drums. This allows you to create your own beats or simply play like you’re part of the band as the song plays on your MP3 player.
The pocket drummer hooks up to the output earphone port of any media player and provides another earphone port so you’ll be able to hear your own drumming mixed into the song currently playing on the MP3 player with your earphones plugged right into it.
A plus point is that it allows you to drum yourself senseless without being a nuisance to others, however it does tend to look a little weird as if you’re mashing buttons in total silence in the eyes of strangers. The pocket drummer is available from Strapya-World at 1,980 yen each.
