V.I.N.CENT is one of the cuter robots in movies. He’s from Disney’s The Black Hole. And now the folks at MINDstyle are busy creating a permanent keepsake of the little bot for your home. Why they made him blue, we have no idea, but he still looks cool.
Each of these vinyl collectible toys is handpainted and stands 10-inches tall, weighing about 5 pounds. They’ll cost you $129.99 at Sideshow Collectibles.
The fine folks from Japan’s Seahope, known for cool digital watches, have partnered up with Takara Tomy to produce a new timepiece inspired by the Transformers. We can’t tell from this early concept sketch whether the chronolabel LED Transformer will transform from a watch to a stand-up clock, but we want one just the same.
I dub thee Optimus Time.
Introduce your kids to solar technology at an early age with this robot kit. It comes with enough parts to build one of three different robot designs, which include your traditional robot, a scorpion and a tank. Each is motorized and solar powered.
Only $14.58. Your kids will learn something as they have fun building bots.
Now you can buy Mattel’s Toy Story 3 robot, Sparx, to guard your desk and keep all of your other bots company. It’s only $10.99 at Amazon.
This has to be the smallest Asimo figure we’ve ever seen. Our favorite Honda humanoid robot looks pretty adorable all squat and tiny. Not sure where you can get a single figure, but if you’re willing to buy 50 of em you get a wholesale discount.
From Reed and Barton, those purveyors of collectible silver items, comes this awesome Art-Deco style retro robot bank. It stands 6-1/2″ tall and is made of shiny silverplate. I just love the retro design. Plus, it’s shiny and eats coins. Only $33.55.
Fujitsu has yet again made an advancement with their toys. This time, they’ve made a Teddy Bear Robot that looks like it will be the next big thing. The robot is able to move around in reaction to what the user does. If you wave at the bear, the camera located in it nose will detect it and then it will respond by waving back. Also, if you don’t play with it for awhile, the bear will fall asleep, but you can wake it up by petting its arm or tickling its foot. Watch out for an angry bear though.
The point of this robot is to give a realistic sense of activity to young children and the elderly. Results have shown that it hasn’t worked as well as other robots with the same goal because it isn’t as spontaneous and realistic, even though the bear has 300 different responses programmed into it. The video below shows how well the human-robot interaction is, but it also shows how it can be repetitive and unrealistic. The bear is on display at the Fujitsu Forum 2010.
You know you are a true fan of Star Wars when you begin to collect all of the merchandise, but when you buy a C3PO backpack, you are a true fanatic. Relive the classic movie moment when C3PO was carried by Chewbacca on his back, with this backpack.
When you set C3PO down, it takes it’s normal shape (shown on right), but when you carry it around it readjusts the limbs into an awkward-looking position. The Star Wars backpack has LED flickering lights and a zipper pocket located in its chest. It stands over 3 feet tall when put together and it is a fully Licensed Lucasfilm collectible.
Everyone has their obsessions. Lego has their obsession making movie themed blocks. And Asoblocks has their obsession with robot themed blocks. Originally from Aichi, Japan, Merzen’s Asoblocks come in a variety of packs, but the pack shown above is the basic 251 kit which contains 164 pieces.
In each kit you can assemble more than one robot with the easy to put together plastic pieces. If you agree that Lego has gone down a more commercial road than creative road, hop onto the Asoblocks band wagon and make some Japanese robots with us. The basic set is on Amazon, it’s $36.95.
These awesome tiny robots called Zibits are now available on Amazon from $13.23 to $14.99. Looks like there are about 11 versions available. These guys are too damn cute. How can you not collect them all?
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