Japanese Students Create 'Girlfriend Coat' To Hug Lonely People
Feeling lonely? Japanese students at the University of Tsukuba have invented a coat that can simulate being hugged from behind by their girlfriend, complete with imaginary anime sounding girlfriend whispering sweet nothings into your ear.
'Beatoven.' Make And Mix Music With A Cooking Pot
Korean artist Viktor Jan has combined music and cooking in a way you've never known before with Beatoven. We understand that their rather similar in their craft of blending certain ingredients for the perfect sound; but this is a more literal transition of that idea, adding a music interface to a cooking pot.
MR-808: The Real Life Drum Machine
The 1980s are considered to have given birth to modern electronic music. One of the backbones was (and still is) the Roland TR-808, an early programmable drum machine. This iconic piece of hardware has been mimicked, sampled and synthesized countlessly over the past 30 years since its debut yet now Moritz Simon Geist (aka Sonic Robots) has taken this one step further.
Beer Can Keyboard Created Using Raspberry Pi And Arduino
Robofun Create have built a universal keyboard using 44 Staropramen beer cans as the keys, proving that potential uses for the likes of Arduino and Raspberry Pi are only limited by the creativity of those who use them...or their livers in this particular example.
Web connected robot gives your online notifications their own scent
Meet Olly: a small, rather minimalistically designed gadget which is, according to creator Mint Foundry, a 'web connected smelly robot.' What does this mean? If sight and sound are already stimulated by the very device with which you are reading this from, then imagine adding smell to this combination.
Your girlfriend/boyfriend messages you on Facebook or Twitter, for example. Instantly your nasal capacity is filled with the scent of their perfume, due to Olly emitting that individual scent as part of the notification.
MyRobots.com: The Facebook for your cyborg companion
So you've got your Facebook and Twitter; but as we step closer to Skynet intelligent robot beings, what about their outcries to be part of the social graph? Well, dear reader, your prayers have been answered with Myrobots.com.