Weekend Fun: Roadkill Toys

Roadkill, a new company out of the UK, (who else could have come up with something this demented… —Ed.) has created the perfect gift for one of your over-pierced friends, Twitch the Raccoon. Twitch, as he’s known to his friends, is a stuffed recreation of roadkill, complete with guts and whatnot, that can “spill out” of a zippered cavity in his body. The company has dubbed this style of stuffed animal...

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Weekend Fun: Toyota’s Violin Playing Humanoid Robot

Toyota, sick and tired of having Honda take all the robot spot-light, trotted out their own invention this past week to play the violin to a select press group. The 5-foot-tall all-white robot played a pretty-stiff rendition of “Pomp and Circumstance” using one hand with specially-developed, mechanical fingers to press the strings correctly, and the other to bow. Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe said robotics will be a...

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