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Futurama’s Bender Turned Into A Belligerent Smart Speaker That’s Still More Useful Than Siri
If you’re going to put a smart speaker in your home that disregards your privacy and functions only to rake in profits from you in any way possible, it might as well be a disembodied interactive version of Futurama’s Bender instead of Siri, Alexa, or Google Assistant. “Bite my shiny metal ask me anything.”
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An R2-D2 Robot Vacuum Is Exactly The Chore Droid I’m Looking For
It’s staggering to think that Matthew Scott Hunter came up with a way to combine his love of clean floors and Star Wars before the marketing teams at Disney, Lucasfilm, and iRobot did. Using random household items he turned his functional robot vacuum into an Artoo unit that roams and cleans his home.
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Calculator Hacked For Cheating Includes A Secret OLED Screen, Wifi, And Even A Chat Function
To discourage cheating, high schools and colleges limit what gadgets can be brought into an exam, and they require students to use very basic calculators if maths is involved. But that doesn’t mean cheating is impossible, it just requires considerably more effort, like upgrading a dumb Casio calculator with a secret screen, Wi-Fi, and even…
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This Upgraded NES Gamepad Doesn’t Actually Need An NES Console To Play Games
One-upping Nintendo’s efforts to shrink the original NES console, Taylor Burley sacrificed a tiny arcade cabinet to upgrade an old-school NES gamepad with not only a screen, but a small collection of retro titles that don’t need cartridges or even a console to play.