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At the Digital Content Expo in Tokyo, the HRP-4C robot took to the stage along with four humans and performed a choreographed dance with the team. The dance routine is a result of a year long effort to teach the humanoid robot to dance, and it seems to have handled itself pretty well.

Via: PinkTentacle

Toyota Auris Hybrid hit the ground with a lot of visual candy and projection goodness. Staying on the theme of “Get your Energy Back,” the Auris hybrid made a dazzling display with 3D projections. The idea is a creation of the agency glue Isobar.

Via: GetYourEnergyBack

The art of Santiago Caruso is unconventional. The Buenos Aires based artist has been working professionally since 2002. Caruso has a number of book covers to his credit and presently designs for the mythical magazine CARAS Y CARETAS.

Via: BestBookmarks

The “Write a Bike” is a design for custom bicycles created by Swiss art director Juri Zaech. Having a bike whose frame speaks your name is quite an interesting option. However, with all those changes to the frame, maintaining the structural integrity of the bike becomes a tough job. Zaech is working on a way to create a prototype of one of the bikes.

Via: BeautifulLife

The pic is a result of collaboration between Jennifer Daniel and Todd Levin, and it does a pretty good job of showing a typical day of unemployment. Click image for larger version.

Via: Funny or Die, LaughingSquid

Shape shifting objects have always been a point of interest and intrigue. Imagine objects in your home changing their form to suit your needs and requirements, quite like the Living Kitchen concept we saw earlier. Well, that part is a tad closer to reality with Blob Motility developed by Wakita Laboratoray at Keio University. It is being called the early phase of an “actuated shape display using programmable matter.” The pBlob is made from a number of electromagnets arranged in a honeycomb structure. Control circuits underneath the structure create dynamic magnetic fields, allowing the blob to change shape. Blob Motility will be officially presented at the International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction in 2011.

Via: Core77

MiCha Lamps are part cats, part lamps; or more accurately lamps created in the form of cat sculptures. Created by Kuntzel+Deyga, these are four lamps, sculpted in various positions of movement and postures of cats. They are cute, to say the least. Video and image gallery after the jump.

Via: Fubiz

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This DIY slot race track was created by James-Michael Gregory Harlan of Pontiac, Michigan. He has tried to keep it as exciting and challenging as a real F1 race track. Built on a 1:32 scale, the track covers a 20 square feet space with the lap itself at 145 feet. The track has 19 turns and 2.5 feet of elevation chane. Gregory hand-built and painted the surrounding environment to give it more of an authentic feel. The track is CNC routed on the AC2car system, which allows both cars to run on the same slot and pass each other through lane changers.

Via: Autoblog

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Hey folks, here’s a nice piece of trivia for you: Homer Simpson is a true Catholic. That’s what the Vatican says, and if he’s good enough for them, I guess he really is a “true” Catholic. The Vatican’s official newspaper acknowledged that Homer sleeps through sermons and troubles his evangelical neighbors, but “The Simpsons are among the few TV programmes for children in which Christian faith, religion, and questions about God are recurrent themes.” That the family says prayers before dinner got them brownie points.

Via: Orange

SolidMicro has announced a new case for the iPad. In addition to protecting the device, this case will also juice it up. The large capacity case also includes an external battery, this 6000 mAh battery is 2.4 times more powerful than the iPad’s battery, translating into significantly longer time before the iPad needs to hit the recharge station. They’ve attempted to keep the case sleek to go in with the form factor of the iPad. The Pad Power is priced at 12800 yen ($157).

Via: SolidMicro [Machine Translated], AkihabaraNews