A collective “awwwww” can be heard for miles away from this adorable little robot headphone splitter. For just $14, this little robot can live happily chained to say your keys, ready for the chance encounter of someone who wants to listen to your music. If they are not attracted to you, there’s a better than more »

This video is pretty amazing. An ARM powered Droid has managed to manipulate a mass of LEGOS from a Mindstorms NXT kit to solve a Kubik’s cube. The image capturing software that has to be used in order to do this is pretty extraordinary not to mention the robotics. This machine has been dubbed the more »

Maker of handheld games and electroincs, Excalibur Electronics, is showing off their talking Albert Einstein head. The head shoots out facts and information, and is very entertaining to watch. I’m not sure I needed to see quite that much detail on Eintstein’s face, but I commend the team at Excalibur for making it so life-like. Take a look at a few snapshots below. Long live Einstein.

Many of the new electronics showcased this year at the CES in Las Vegas are focused on the need to start using less energy and relying on natural resources. One of the many eco friendly products includes the Husqvarna Automower Solar Hybrid. This mower is outfitted with solar panels and does not rely on oil more »

The Gibson Dark Fire is an electric guitar with lots of tech that will be released on December 15th. So, what’s the big deal?

At first blush, the Dark Fire just looks like a damn cool Les Paul, but there’s more under the hood. You can change tunings and the combination of pickups with a simple turn of a knob. It’s supposed to tune faster than Gibson’s first attempt at a robot guitar and should be able to produce lots of different tones. More after the break.

If you didn’t already know, the Mars Phoenix mission came to a close yesterday. You may remember the Mars Phoenix as the robot that found water on Mars over the summer. When the Phoenix outlived the original estimates, those in charge pushed it a little further until it finally stopped communicating with Earth yesterday. Normally this might make an interesting story about the fact that it died, but would really only depress those that were involved.

This time was a bit different, though. The Mars Phoenix was giving updates through its time through Twitter. Through Twitter the Phoenix told us how its mission was going, when he went into safe mode, instances when its solar panels were blocked by a sandstorm, and even answered questions that other users posed. Continued after the break.

Christmas is for the kids, right? Better get them crossed off the shopping list first. I checked out a few of the wish lists floating around and thought I would share them with you. Wouldn’t you know, they are filled with electronics. We have plenty of shopping days til the holidays. That is, unless your kids want Elmo Live, which is already selling out.

What are your kids asking Santa for? Keep reading to see.

She’s not one of the fembots from the Austin Powers movies, but she’s the next best thing. Her name is EMA, which stands for Eternal Maiden Actualization. The maker is Sega Toys, and the target demographic is lonely dudes. That’s right, according to Reuters she’s being marketed in Japan as a female companion. She can more »

Surely the holy grail for the engineering world is the ability to make a robot that is lifelike, and although the robots in question are not particularly lifelike in bodily form or in thought, they have some of the crucial things that will move us into the future. Festo, normally known for their heavy machinery, more »

For the technologies that fall into the catapult category, enter Robopult, the newest and most terrifying metallic sight since Godzilla crushed a city that got in the way of his last good will tour fifty some odd celluloid years ago. Robopult is unlike the others of its ilk; namely, the ballista and the catapult, as Robopult is perfectly capable of flinging fireballs and just about anything else you can imagine in the air! This industrial robotic arm that is transformed into a computerized demon hurler is not for everybody in more ways than one.