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Kawaii Micropet-i, Smallish Robotic Animals

Patrick Quek — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:01:15 +0000

One may not own a pet or animal for many reasons. Your partner doesn’t like or your nose is sensitive to some fur but these Micropet-i from Takara Tomy are so cute that can make you go “Awww…”

Each animal can move on its own and is equipped with four modes to brighten up your day. I like the Chorus mode wher a group of Micropets can sing together. Each goes for $18 and is available in Japan on 4th July.

Forget about video gaming for a while and play these Micropets instead.

Via: Crunchgear
Image: Takara Tomy

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Kawaii Micropet-i, Smallish Robotic Animals

Robot Chef a little too lifelike

Robin Parrish — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:30:22 +0000

This is just plain weird. At the International Food Machinery and Technology Exhibition currently going on in Tokyo, there’s a robotic arm on display that makes Sushi. Not that weird, right?

Well, wait until you see it in action. The hand is so lifelike, in a close-up shot, it actually looks like it suffers from dry skin.

Do we really think it’s a good idea to make robots that possess more and more human qualities?

Did Terminator and The Matrix teach us nothing?!

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Robot Chef a little too lifelike

The Super Life Size RX78 Gundam In Japan

Patrick Quek — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:45:55 +0000

We see the awesomess of Gundam in the anime and always dreaming of gawking at one in real life (whether it can ignite and fly doesn’t really matter). After many years, behold the 20m, 60ft super life size RX78 Gundam!!!

The current assembled RX78 Gundam stands proud and tall at Odaiba, Tokyo. Even Optimus Prime has to stand back this time.

More pictures, directions and comments over at punynari

Image: punynari

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Is That a Dead Man?

Tucker — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:00:38 +0000

I am not a zombie kind of dude. I just can’t get into the whole undead thing, but bloodthirsty robots or a widespread virus that is totally my cup of tea. Robots and viruses as likely as me winning a Pulitzer, but I think that zombies are even less likely.

So, not being a zombie fan I shied away from all of the Resident Evil games (and the movies). You may be asking yourself, “how can you blog about FPS-es if you have not blasted zombies?” Well, I don’t know either but I am doing it. So, Ha! However, after seeing the trailer for Resident Evil 5 I really want to bludgeon me some of the undead.

Are zombies undead? I know that vampires are undead. I guess that zombies are dead. Then how is it we can kill them? I get that you can dead the undead, but how do you redead the dead? Anyway, it looks like fun.

I have a bit of a problem though. I can not decide if I should I play the earlier games or just start with 5. If you have an opinion tell me what you think in the comment section.

I want to have the total Resident Evil experience.

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Is That a Dead Man?