If you have hardwood floors and love robots to do the tedious task of wiping up after you then the Fukitorimushia floor-cleaning robot should be on top of your wishlist.
It inches along wriggling your floor clean like a cleaning compulsive caterpillar.
The Fukitorimushi (“wipe-up bug”) has been thought-up by Panasonic and is wrapped-up in a sticky nanocloth sleeve which collects dust and debris as the robot crawls, worm-style, across the floor.
The Fukitorimushi has sensors that seek out dirt and focuses on those problem areas – probably around the sofas and dining table
It looks great with a few of them creeping about the floor – I hope that there’ll be different coloured cloths and perhaps stick-on googley eyes available on release…………….
There’s no word on price or availability yet, but if a robo-worm wiping your wood (ooooer!) is what your dreams are made of check the video below.
University designers have come up with a Formula Three racing car that’s powered by chocolate oils with body work made from potatoes. Oh and the steering wheel is made from carrot fibres and the seat from soybean foam.
Yum!
Dr Kerry Kirwan, of Warwick University, said the aim was to design something “fun, fast and exciting”.
Unfortunately [...]
It looks like a Nokia Netbook could well be on its way and this has been confirmed by none-other than the CEO.
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo has finally admitted the plans when he was asked if Nokia were entering the Laptop business by answering, “we are looking very actively [at] this opportunity”.
So I’ll take that as a yes then.
To be fair [...]
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