There’s something about fire-breathing robots that just gets us giddy, so you can imagine our joy when finding one that gallops, too. The hand-built robot dog — cutely coined LRRY-1 (pronounced Larry, we’ll have you know) — was built almost entirely from unwanted Citroën scraps, and not a single ounce of non-recycled material was used in the final construction. No idea if it’s technically street legal, but we’d love to see a traffic warden try to get this thing back in its cage.





Oh there was a time when all I wanted was a calculator watch. At that awkward time of my life, nothing seemed cooler. With the Databank, Casio has taken it a step further, the watch is no longer limited to simple calculations, it can store 25 pages (of eight letters and 15 numerals). It also comes with a ten year battery, thirteen language display, a calendar that is pre-programmed until 2099 and a few other things that you are likely not to care about.





Lots of crazy carnivorous proposals have been thrown around over the last year to promote a more climate-friendly form of meat-eating. Just off the top of my head, I can remember reading stories about the benefits of eating: venison, clones, whale blubber, rats, and kangaroo. Those are exactly the reasons why I think this ad from the World Wildlife Fund might be widely misinterpreted.

In case you were confused, the WWF doesn’t officially endorse cannibalism as a means of fighting climate change. Even if they did, I doubt they would put their support behind baby cannibalism — because that’s just messed up — and a baby’s carbon footprint isn’t even very large. I think the idea they’re trying to promote is that naked babies look cute with apples and citrus fruit. Then again, it could be about conserving natural resources too.





Lasonic’s iPod dock masquerading as a ghetto blaster is nothing we haven’t seen before, but the new Limited Edition i931 with Rap-Up branding… well, it’s so “fabulous” we couldn’t resist. Weighing in at about 25 pounds, this behemoth boasts two 12-inch speakers, it docks and charges your iPod, and it’s going to look semi-fly doing it, too. It’s also got an AM/FM tuner, EQs, an alarm clock — you know, the works. This hulking “high performance portable music system” is destined to make you nostalgic for a simpler time of miniscule MP3 players with teensy little earbuds. It’s $189 and available now.