This gardening robot can plant, maintain, and nourish a home garden with perfect efficiency. It plants the seeds, checks the water levels, waters, feeds, and even hunts and kills weeds. Not only is the Farmbot Genesis open source, it also comes with a software/app that allow for drag and drop…
It seems that most gadgets, apparel, and anything plastic is being made in developing nations. No surprise, right? Companies are always trying to save money and will go where labor is cheaper. This isn’t always a good thing. It looks like the next wave of manufacturing is going to be…
Laundry is a lot easier than it used to be in the ‘old days’. No more hauling a tub of water, scrubbing the clothes on a washboard, and hanging in the yard. We now have machines that automatically wash and dry our clothes. But why stop there? The Foldimate machine…
Clearly, this is where the future is headed. Scary stuff. Dogo, from General Robotics, is a tiny 26-pound remote controlled robotic tank that has an onboard 9mm Glock pistol. IT even has two-way audio, presumably so you can do your best Arnold Schwarzenegger impression before pulling the virtual trigger. “It…
I used to be a fan of the Roomba robotic vacuums but I haven’t had much luck with the last two I have purchased. Roomba prices have remained high while quality has slipped. Another Roomba frustration is the fact that I have replaced the battery 3 times in a matter…
BattleBots is a TV show where people build relatively small robots that are remote controlled. These BattleBots then fight to the death in a caged arena. It is amazing to watch because some of the robot designs are very unconventional and make for unpredictable fights. Now imagine a much larger…
Drones continue to make headlines as they are being used for fishing, videography, racing, human flight, and more. So, no surprise that they are soon going to be used for cloud seeding to help make it rain. Well that is the plan anyways. A group of researchers in Nevada completed…
The houses in this video were printed with a giant 3D printer that uses construction waste and cement as the medium. The houses in the video were printed in Shanghai. They managed to print ten houses in 24 hours. The roofs, however, were built using traditional building materials. The inventor behind…
Self-driving vehicles are definitely going to be a part of our future. As we age we will wax nostalgic about the days when we actually had to shift gears, touch a steering wheel, brake, and accelerate. There will be some good and bad with these changes. Like it, or not, they are…
Imagine a 3D printer that could print prototype objects in complex shapes with different materials and textures while matching exact color selections. Imagine no more, the Stratasys J750 can do just that. The J750 3D Printer can mix materials for items that are both hard and soft and/or opaque and transparent. …