Defiance of Science » Japan

Rubber Robot Mouth Has Use Other Than Oral Sex

Glucid — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:11:06 +0000

Initially created to help hearing impaired people articulate vowels, this rubber mouth will become the stuff of nightmares as it muscles its way through various vowels. Using an air pump, fake vocal chords, nasal cavity and plenty of voodoo Japan’s Kagawa University has managed to produced a robot that can not only produce the sounds which can summon demons from the necronomicon as shown below, but also at this point in development can allegedly sing. Whatever the case i’m still waiting for it to stop asking me for human blood. Wait, you can’t hear that?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=57zsMfuTk1U

via: [popsci,abstract]

ROPID, cute until he starts chasing you screaming

Glucid — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:23:16 +0000

: like megaman, but creepier

ROPID is another human looking robot developed by Tomotaka Takahashi. Robots always seem like a great idea until they start chasing you. We are FINALLY one step closer to allowing them to chase after you. next on the docket is getting them to scream while chasing you. Oh and did I mention it can jump?

Kyoto University’s robot venture, said CEO Tomotaka Takahashi of Robo Garage, Inc. is a small humanoid robot that can run or jump or “Lopid (ROPID)” announced that it has developed, and conducted a press conference. Realized in 2007 a patent was filed based on technology through the years, Kyoto University. (source: translated from japanese)

Check out the insanity here!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG7w3ALzcy8

New phones both boring and Unnecessary

Glucid — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:50:27 +0000

Thank you science so so much for giving us crap we don’t need. This week at CEATEC (the japanese version of your grade 1 show and tell), showcased these products to the unimpressed. Included was a cell phone/tube like device which can be re-arranged into other even more uninteresting tubes. This device has the capability to shape shift into … a easy to use female contraceptive… wait that would be if it was actually useful. Instead it has the potential to launch you into another level of blue-tooth douche-dom. enjoy:

Also from Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory of crap is this phone made entirely from a new space age material known as “Wood”. Lauded by its creators to thwart the common cell phone enemy known as “mildew” and it’s co-bastard “insects” which all of us common cell phone users are plagued by everyday.

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