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2010 Super Bowl - Indianapolis Colts vs New Orleans Saints: are you ready?

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Miami’s Sun Life Stadium will host the 2010 Super Bowl, the most watched event in American Sports. Super Bowl XLIV features the Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints. Watch as they go head-to-head for the right to hoist the Lombardi Trophy.

You may be able to watch it online LIVE. But how is it done? Here’s some advice.

  • First thing first, make sure you have a good quality internet connection!
  • You can check NFL.com, but you need to check on them every time. The streaming may not be that good as there will be heavy loads of server requests that you may not be able to obtain a slot which will cost you time.
  • Are you thinking of watching on YouTube? No, I am saying this to you there is no live championship telecast on YouTube, how much more the Super Bowl, so don’t waste your time to check Youtube anymore.
  • You can also check watching it using Sopcast through a Sopcast provider. There are so many Sopcast softwares available in the internet and too many providers. If you are lucky you can watch a clear reception which is a very low probability, but most of the time you will be shoved aside by the other users and you may not have good reception as there will be pauses and late responses from their servers due to poor handling of requests and limited server resources.We’ll be watching the Super Bowl 2010 with some geekery added, just like the Football Snack Bowl: we love it!
    Just press the air inflation button and the top of the football swings open and plays the FOX NFL THEME music.

    NO NFL fan should live without it!

Elenco Snap Circuit 300: over 300 electronic projects, more than a toy!

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

We venture that even Edison would be amazed!
Prepare to engineer over 300 exciting, useful electronic gadgets & play lively electronic games with Electronic Snap Circuits’ Snap Circuits SC-300!
This kit features a valuable collection of materials! The colorful and easy-to-follow format of the instruction manual makes circuit assembly stress-free and fun.

All parts are mounted on plastic modules and snap together with ease. Leave the tools in the garage-everything you need for your electronics learning adventure is included.
With Snap Circuits SC-300 your understanding of electronics is a SNAP!

Snap Circuits SC-300 contains over 60 parts and allows for literally over 300 Projects!

Here are just a few:
Lamp & Fan, Musical Doorbell, Laser Gun, Police Car Symphony, Reflection Detector, Spinning Rings, Pencil Alarm, Race Game, Photosensitive Electronic Organ, Space War Music Combo, The Lie Detector, Mosquito, Musical Motion Detector, Fire Fan Symphony, Water Detector, Screaming Fan, Daylight Music Radio, Blow off a Space War, Red & Green Control, Touch Buzzer, Laser Light, Flooding Alarm, Make Your Own Battery, Hissing Foghorn, Blow On a Candle, Mosquito, Voice-Controlled Rays of Light, Spacey Fan, Old-Style Typewriter, Blinking Double Flashlight, Hummer, Motor That Won’t Start, Steamship, Pressure Alarm, Feedback Kazoo, Race Car Engine… and more!

Unique Learning Experience
Creating a flying UFO from “scratch” with rudimentary electronic pieces was highly satisfying to us, and we think Electronic Snap Circuits may well help young students gain and foster an appreciation for, and interest in, how electronics work and are built.

For students who are already learning about electronics in school, this set creates a hands-on experience that makes for more fun than reading about how these things work in a textbook.
So don’t be surprised if report cards come back with higher grades after playing with this toy.

The Snap Circuits SC-300 is available now for US $39.67 (You Save: $20.32 , -34% and free shipping too!)

WowWee’s Rovio: 3-wheeled, Wi-Fi enabled robotic home surveillance

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Have you every wondered exactly what your cat or dog gets up to when you’re not home?
WowWee Robotics, the pioneering company behind Robosapien, gives you its new WiFi-enabled, remotely-controlled robotic webcam platform.
Known as WowWee Rovio Wi-Fi - the 3-wheeled telepresence allows you to interact with its environment, surveying the home or office remotely through streaming video and audio transmitted via the Internet to your cell phone, PC or video game console. Video is captured through a built-in camera and NorthStar smart navigation boosts the units ability to act autonomously.

Working like a micro-GPS system, the NorthStar navigation and positioning system enables the WowWee Rovio Wi-Fi robot to know where it is, locate the position of other objects, and accurately navigate through its environment under its own control.

Got an iPhone? Enter “Rovio Driver” the new application available from Bertrand Leroy on the iPhone App Store.
With a quick download and a few settings, you’ll be up and running in no time.
The free app adds head position / rotation controls and the camera view appears to be much larger than the standard version.

The WowWee Rovio Wi-Fi is now US $ 315,17 (and that’s 10% off its regular price!)

Insultabotz: a robot so human that’s able to insult like you!

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Let’s face it, when it comes to humanize robots smooth-walking, sleek-talking and obstacle avoidance ability are the most requested features.
But now think again: what’ more human than a robot that’s able to learn your own insults and talk nasty (and we mean nasty) when hitting objects (just like us, by the way)?

Meet the Insultabotz!

The Insultabotz creeps forward with its six insect-like legs and will avoid objects in its way. It can detect objects with its infrared eye and move accordingly, and while it does so, it insults you!

The Insultabotz robot comes with a re-recordable voice chip that allows you to pre-record any message or multiple messages (up to 15 seconds) and Insultabotz will repeat them in sequence every time it comes to an obstacle. Of course, they do not have to be insulting messages-but Insultabotz is not shy about giving you a piece of your own mind.

Warning! Remember that not only can your parents hear what Insultabotz says, they can record messages on Insultabotz as well.
So, listen carefully, the insult you hear may not be your own.

For ages 14 and up.

Batteries (and insults book) not included.

Insultabotz price is now US $ 69.99 (and that’s 30% off the regular price), so you won’t insult your credit card!

Update: Jun 21st it’s Father’s Day! Don’t you dare giving your dad such a threat a gift ;) !






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