This Talking Robot Mouth looks a bit creepy but works amazingly well. This robotic mouth is making sounds the same way we do. The mouth is made of various silicone materials blended together and the nose has the same function ours does when it comes to the creation of human vocals. The most impressive thing is that the robot learns as it talks, there is a microphone which allows the
An elevator is something that many people rely on to get around. What happens when a out of the box thinker is stuck on the 5th floor of a building and in need of an elevator to get in and out of his suite? Step 1 is to ask for an elevator to be installed, step 2 is to take it into your own hands and make your own elevator!
I enjoy chicken meat but it is sad to see this type of machine which just treats the animal like an object. It might as well be making car tires. It is a marvelous feat of engineering any way you look at it though. Via: TechEBlog “The fastest human butchers can fully debone about 150 chickens per hour. That’s a lot of chickens! But the new Mayekawa Automatic Chicken Deboner
We have featured Labyrinth game hacks in the past but this Android Labyrinth Game is the biggest one I have ever seen. The game is controlled by a person tilting an Android tablet which directly controls the movement of the huge game board. The ball appears to be a bowling ball and by the looks of it the game is actually quite hard to master. I wonder where this game
Most of us work with connectors quite often. Slap a junction box on the wall, run some wires into it and make some wire nut connections. What if you need it to be water resistant? No problem, put it in a plastic box and use water tight connectors right? Well that might work just fine if this electrical connection is to be mounted to the back of your house but
Hacked Gadgets was at the recent All Energy Conference in Aberdeen Scotland. There was lots of wind generation companies demonstrating their systems and components but I thought that Windspot is going after an interesting market. Their wind generators have automatic pitch compensation which makes them very quiet so they can be used in residential applications and they are also DIY friendly since as you can see everything you need is
There are lots of cool instruments that can be played but normally you are limited to enjoying one at a time. Patrick Flanagan has that concept licked with his Jazari Musical Instrument. He is able to control an entire room full of instruments by creating loops on them using his unusual looking hand interface. It uses accelerometers to detect the position of his hand and adjusts the instruments sound accordingly.
