remove the labels – Gadgets and Life

By Evan Ackerman
This week on BotJunkie began with a video from the Austrian cocktail robotics festival Roboexotica, then we got a little miffed at Klutz for not crediting Evil Mad Scientist Labs for Bristlebots, bet that an android called BERTI would eventually win at rock paper scissors, saw a new video featuring everyone’s favorite quadrupedal [...]

By Evan Ackerman
It’s a cruel joke, but Hershey has partnered with Jazwares to develop a frustratingly inedible line of consumer electronics, starting with this chocolatey looking but not chocolatey tasting USB drive. Also on the menu are other things that you tend to find in Halloween grab bags but nowhere else, like Krackle and Mr. [...]

By Andrew Liszewski
Fisher Price announced a handful of high-tech gear at Toy Fair this year, including the My Toon TV which is just the thing if your kids have ever wanted to appear on TV… as a cartoon character. They can use the built-in camera to snap a photo of themselves, which is then ‘meshed’ [...]

By Luke Anderson
I’ve been out paintballing a few times, and it’s actually a lot of fun. The trick is to get hit as little as possible. While I enjoyed running around with a few friends on two different teams, I always thought it would be cool to have a set of turrets to defend each [...]

By Luke Anderson
Every year at about this time I start to get really antsy for Spring. That’s because we start to get a taste of warmer weather for a day or so, then it turns back to bitter cold for a week. Despite my affinity for technology and the amount of my time spent in [...]

By Luke Anderson
The Rebel forces might not have quite the resources of the Galactic Empire, but they can usually get the job done. The other day we saw an Imperial sound system, the AT-AT Boombox. That left me wondering what exactly the fearless Rebels had to counter such a menacing audio output device. The answer? [...]

These delectable, sweet-tasting Sea Otter Boogers (rakko no hana-kuso) are available at zoo and aquarium gift shops across Japan. The ones shown here are from Kamogawa Sea World in Chiba prefecture.

The protein-packed booger snacks are actually made of amanattō, or candied black beans, and they are quite tasty if you can get over the name. [...]

This quite possibly one of the coolest little lighting tools I have ever seen. It is shaped like a sea mine, but at each of its twelve points there is a neodymium magnet that lets it be locked onto metal surface to provide LED light from any angle that you could possibly need. Pretty good [...]

If you are aware of and follow the releases on the electronic market, you will not be surprised to find out that LG and Verizon Wireless joined their efforts and technologies to create a completely new product: LG Versa Smartphone with advanced web browsing, which will appear on March 1st, 2009. However, you will be, [...]