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SKITTERBOT is a Speedy Little Robotic Toy Cockroach So Cheap That you may Collect an Army [Robotic Cockroach]

SKITTERBOT claims to be the fastest legged micro-robotic toy on the earth. And from the video, which shows a swarm of these colorful $20 robo-cockroaches zipping around in a frenzy, I will imagine that could be correct. Using the 5 function remote, SKITTERBOT invites you to race or battle your mates' bots (maybe ...

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Mysterious New HTC Device ” Makes the Droid 2 Appear to be a Kids Toy” [Unconfirmed]

The folk at BGR have gotten their hands on a rather nice-looking and great-sounding HTC device which they suspect is headed to Verizon soon. Here's what they discovered concerning the mystery device: Our source describes the phone as being an EVO in a larger and more ...

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Toy Story Scalextric Makes Me Wish I Were a Kid Again [Toys]

I admire my nephew\'s visits, if only so one can pull the old Scalextric set out and fake we\'re both eight-year-olds. While this special Toy Story edition is simply a 1:64 scale, I still really, actually need it. It\'s coinciding with the launch of Toy Story 3, so there\'s an obvious ploy here for kiddywinks\' affections ...

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CrunchGear Week in Review: Toy Car Cruise Edition

Here are some stories from the past week on CrunchGear: Doodle doot do do doot! SMB sidewalk is SMB on the sidewalk Roi de France Henri IV, avec lightsaber Could I interest the gentleman in a bespoke toy car? Onkyo presents super-cute Miffy netbook Solar Impulse flight a great success, flies for 26 straight hours powered only by the Sun Source

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Could I interest the gentleman in a bespoke toy car?

If you have $65 to spend and you want a Pinewood Derby racer that will literally outlive you and most of your descendants, drop over to this website and press the Buy Now button. This racer, made of machined aluminium, comes from Karas Customs and can be engraved with almost any design or decoration. Sadly you ...

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Toy Story 3 in 4K 3D: does higher-res equal higher enjoyment?

We'll be straight with you, the Engadget staff is somewhat ambivalent about 3D: some of us believe it to be a gimmick, while others see it as a legitimate advance in film technology that takes our movie enjoyment up to its next logical station. What you won't find us disagreeing on, however, is that everything ...

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DIY Mini Daytona Arcade Cabinet

There’s something about arcade cabinets that everybody seems to love, and now someone has decided to once again come up with a DIY arcade cabinet, and this time it’s built around the Daytona racing game. Considering it was hacked together, the steerin…

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Daytona USA mini arcade cabinet

Love arcade cabinets? How about a miniature version in the form of racing simulator Daytona USA to keep you entertained? This fine piece of work uses a wheel from the controller of a remote controlled car, while its gear lever is a spare part from a h…

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How not to make a 3D movie

The reviews are coming in for The Last Airbender, and wow are they bad. This is looking like a good candidate for worst-reviewed movie of the year. How could it fail so incredibly hard? I’ve made no secret of my optimism regarding 3D content, but I’ll be the first to admit that 3D is not always good for a film — and if done poorly can ruin it. It sounds like The Last Airbender was ruined before they even started shooting it, but here are a few tips for Mr. Shyamalan’s next 3D feature.

1. Don’t do a 2D to 3D conversion

As far as I’m concerned, any producer greenlighting a 3D conversion should be fired. It’s expensive, labor-intensive, and more importantly ineffective. Even at its best, converting a 2D movie to 3D is a shadow of true 3D. At its worst, it can be more painful to watch, or simply unconvincing. Conversions are the most transparent rain dance a producer can do in order to spice up a feature. I could tell from the preview before Toy Story 3 that this was a conversion because I spotted errors baked right in — the way you can tell something has been shot on a green screen.

2. Don’t do a 2D to 3D conversion

Just so we’re really goddamn clear on this.

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Sony NEX-5 and NEX-3 can shoot 3D panoramas with new firmware

Think Sony ain’t serious about 3D? Think again. The Japanese giant has just outed a promised firmware update for its ultra-slinky NEX series of shooters that will allow users to shoot 3D panoramas. Panorama stitching was already one of the touted feat…

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NeuroSky Developer Tools 2.1 Supports Eye Blink Detection

NeuroSky has announced its latest Developer Tools 2.1, which upgrades its MindSet tool set, and now offers support for eye blink detection. With this, developers will now be able to create and publish their own games and applications that can be used …

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Video: Virtual Reality hair cut simulator “Air-Hair”

I’ve seen many things in the tech and gadget world, but this one’s a first. A robot research team at Tokyo Institute of Technology has developed a “virtual reality”-based hair cut simulation system. Aptly named Air-Hair, the system makes it possible to imitate the process of cutting a person’s hair using a manikin and a pair of physical “scissors” that’s connected to a screen showing the head of an avatar.

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