Hands-On with Sphero’s Star Wars BB-8 Toy
An interactive toy version of everyone’s new favorite Star Wars droid, BB-8, is now rolling into retail stores.
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Creepy Yet Beautiful: Jeweler Carves Pearls into Tiny Skulls
Shinji Nakaba uses precious metals and stones in addition to non-traditional sources for luxury jewelry, such as these carved pearls.
Homemade Motion Simulator Is Like a Spaceship in Your Living Room
This homemade 6DOF motion simulator rocks and rolls like a professional rig.
You Can Create Fantastical Landscapes with a Kinect-Powered Sandbox. Here’s How
These interactive displays use sand to allow you to scoop, smash, and splatter structures that are then analyzed by a Kinect and projected as a topographical map.
Get Media Alerts from Your Lamp with This Ikea Hack
Mate Marschalko, who gave us the recent RC car over wireless and a racing wheel project now has a cool Ikea hack to share. He took an Ikea lamp and used a WiFi-enabled Arduino compatible microcontroller to create an alert notification light for his desk. He writes: This IKEA lamp has been completely stripped and […]
10 Facts You Missed from Robot History Class
Catch up on your robot trivia. Robots have been around for longer than you might think, and their evolution is developing exponentially.
Estimote Fixes Security Problems with Beacon Firmware
With their latest firmware release Estimote has closed the security problem that made their beacons vulnerable to hijacking. But some questions surrounding their SDK remain.
