In late 2009, Scion turned over one of its xB box-wagons to Giant Robot magazine publisher Eric Nakamura, and the result is way cooler than any Release Series Scion xB the company has ever turned out. After all, how could you possibly not love a customized car that was inspired by Japan’s Nintendo Famicon Gaming System and its eight bits of raw processing power? @funkmasterflex
20 Things That Have Faded Away In This Decade
The last ten years has brought crazy amounts of new gadgets and gizmos… with this new splurge of technology life has changed drastically! Since 2000, we’ve gained iPods and iPads, Travelocity and Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare, BlackBerrys, Androids, iPhones, Xboxes and Wiis, among many other new services, sites, and electronics. We’re now poking, tweeting, tumbling, Googling, Skyping and Ovooing. In this time we’ve also changed our way of life and lost a lot of old school ways…So let’s take a blast to the past and never ever..EVER look back!! @Ash_Bankz
Top 10 Tech Disasters that Haven’t Happened Yet!
Congratulations: You’ve survived another year, and 2010 was quite eventful. For all the technological advances we made his year including iPads and colored e-readers, we still fear the day where our technology will rise up against or fail us, rendering the human race extinct. We’re counting down the top technological disasters that we feared were going to happen, but never did – although we’re not ruling out the possibility that they still might happen. @FunkmasterFlex
You Can Create Your Own Toy Dinosaur!!!!
$2,397.99 can get you a rare prototype motion capture exoskeleton that was used by Ugobe in the creation of Pleo. This suit was vital to the R&D efforts surrounding the first edition of the outfit’s robotic dinosaur…see details @TatWza
Mission Motors Has Powerful Electric Bike!!!
Mission Motors’, the Mission R., packs 14.4 kWh and 141 horsepower in a package smaller than a modern 600cc sportbike, liquid-cooled 3-phase AC Induction motor works up 115 ft-lbs of torque at the crank from 0 to 6400 RPM. @FunkmasterFlex @TatWza
A Remote Control Ball….Really???
Sphero is a small, robotic toy ball made by Orbotix, and controlled remotely via Bluetooth and your smartphone’s tilt sensor. @TatWza
