Pleo is an autonomous robotic life form modeled on a one-week-old Camarasaurus dinosaur. The cute-looking robot is designed to mimic life which means Pleo thinks and acts independently, just like a real animal would do. In general, it looks, moves, and behaves in ways that would almost make you think it is actually alive. Specifically, Pleo has organic body language, exhibits evolving emotions, is aware of his surroundings and has recognizable behaviors that change over time. At the heart of Pleo is Life OS, the operating system software that enables Pleo to act independently and will evolve Pleo’s personality according to his interactions with you and the environment.

The robot-toy progresses through three different Life Stages. When first awakened, Pleo is a hatchling. As you interact together, Pleo transitions through an infant stage to become a juvenile dinosaur. Then the fun really starts! As Pleo is a highly sophisticated product which evolves into an inquisitive animal that … [ Read the rest of the story ]

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Now that’s a nice idea, a mirror with a printed chart with the names and height of a lot of famous people on it – actors, athletes, singers… With the idea behind the product being that you can easily measure how tall are you and at the same time see which celebrity’s height matches yours or which ones are shorter and taller than you. So what are you waiting for get this cool mirror and start measuring your height on a daily basis, no that there is need for that, but it is still cool. You should also know that this mirror is a real attention grabber, when you have guests at home they’ll surely what to measure who tall are they.

Among the tallest ones in the mirror (190-200cm) you’ll find names such as the actor Dolph Lundgren, the former basketball player Michel Jordan, David Hasselhoff or John Cleese. You’ll probably be amazed that even Abraham Lincoln was quite tall, as is Clint Eastwood and even the rapper … [ Read the rest of the story ]

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Your favorite adventurer Dr. Henry Walton Jones, Jr., also known as Indiana Jones or just Indy is back with the fourth installment of the series known as Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. But now, instead of just watch the movie, you can also start to look a bit more like the classic hero by wearing a copy of his famous Fedora Hat, you know the one he always wears and never looses. The fedora is the name of a type of hats that are soft felt hats, creased lengthwise down the crown and pinched in the front on both sides and the name Fedora comes from the title of an 1882 play by Victorien Sardou where Princess Fedora, the heroine of the play, wore a hat similar to a fedora.

This hat is an Indiana Jones officially licensed Fedora that is 100% fur felt – just like the real “hero” hat – because you deserve to be the hero or at least to look just like him. Inside of the hat … [ Read the rest of the story ]

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If you are a true Sci-Fi movie or comics fan you should know what we are talking when mentioning Cyclops from X-men, yes the guy that has to wear a special type of visor so that he won’t blast everything around him away with the optic blasts that come out of his eyes. Now you can look just like your favorite superhero when wearing this very realistic looking replica of Cyclops’ visor that is actually an authentically duplicated from the actual 20th Century Fox X-men. And although you probably can’t blast energy from your eyes this visor will make you look more like Cyclops at least when he is in his battle suit wearing the visor (otherwise he’s wearing a set of special sunglasses that are also quite cool looking).

The visor comes with an awesome all-metal display box with a certificate of authenticity and visor blueprints on the inner side of the top of the storage case. This way the Cyclops’ visor will look very cool even when you are not wearing it, … [ Read the rest of the story ]

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Because the multi-touch panel of the iPhone and the iPod touch respectively uses a completely different approach than most of the widely adopted resistive touchscreens available in other mobile devices, you need a different kind of stylus. The screen of the iPhone is designed to take input commands only from person’s fingers (or other body parts), but not from a plastic stylus for instance that is normally used in touchscreen devices. In order to do that the screen of the phone has a lot of built in capacitive sensors that detect a difference in the charge of every place the user touches the screen, but in this way the screen is not pressure sensitive. So in order for you to use a stylus in combination with the iPhone you’ll have to use a specially designed “pens” for this type of multi-touch screen.

Until recently it was quite hard and a bit expensive to get such specially designed stylus, but now they are quite widely available and are … [ Read the rest of the story ]

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