By Evan Ackerman This week on BotJunkie began with an iRobot Create hacked to fetch beer soda from a fridge, after which we watched a robot submarine competition in Singapore, then we turned things up a notch with some NSFW video translations of R2-D2, started following a year long project to draw 1...

By Evan Ackerman This is what happens after years spent searching for good Fish Tank Friday material… It’s like your brain is half full of water, and there’s a little blue fishy swimming around where your eyeballs used to be. This is a piece of functional artwork by Nicola L., and ...

By Evan Ackerman The little magnetic light looks just like an underwater contact mine, except that it’s far less dangerous unless you stuff it full of high explosives, in which case it will only be moderately less dangerous. It’s a pretty neat idea, though: each one of those twelve ̶...

By Evan Ackerman You probably keep your old VCR around because of that pile of VHS tapes that you still have. But come on, are you really going to go through all the hassle of rewinding a tape just to watch Labyrinth in lousy quality one more time? Yeah, true, I totally would. Anyway, you should rel...

By Evan Ackerman The Clarion MiND (which I will herein capitalize as normal) is supposed to be a lot of things. It’s supposed to be a GPS, an internet tablet, a media player, and more… All stuffed into one sleek and portable package. It’s a brilliant idea, an idea that a lot of com...

By Evan Ackerman There are plenty of options for listening to music in the bath, but as far as I know none of them are duck shaped besides this one. And impressively, that’s not the only upside to the iDuck waterproof speaker system. It includes a wireless transmitter shaped like an egg that c...

By Evan Ackerman Getting tired of standing at your peephole, staring out at your lawn muttering about those damn kids? The peephole motion sensing DVR has the potential to make your life much more efficient by recording condensed footage of the damn kids and letting you mutter at them whenever and w...

By Evan Ackerman Is this a clever idea, or what? It’s a lamp that shuts off when you disassemble or break it! Genius! The really nice bit, though, is that it turns back on when you put it back together. Now, the lamp is only two feet tall and the designers aren’t advocating that you try ...

By Evan Ackerman Switches are ancient, ancient, ancient technology. Why should I have to laboriously move a piece of hardware from the down position to the up position whenever I want to some lights on? Lights should respond to voice commands, or better yet, they should just know when I’m arou...

By Evan Ackerman The biOrb SpyOrb is a generally unremarkable spherical eight gallon fish tank of the self-contained variety, meaning that besides changing filters every once in a while you don’t really have to do much. What makes it kinda neat are some of the accessories, like the biOrb Timer...