Tech

A band of LEGO Bionicle musicians gets outfitted with servos and bang out some catchy beats, with the help of an Arduino Uno board, and the Clavia Nord Beat iPad sequencer app.

It’s hardly the first of its kind, and it doesn’t have any fancy features either. But that’s exactly the point: these affordable LED bulbs just might make customers ditch incandescent and CFL bulbs.

Party Robotics’ Bartendro is a modular and open-source robot that dispenses perfectly mixed cocktail drinks and takes your order via a mobile app. It comes in 1, 3, 7 and 15 pump variants.

A MoMA best seller, the Numbers LED Clock was originally designed by Jonas Damon in 2006 for Areaware. Each digit is displayed in its own cube, leaving you free to arrange them as you see fit.

The world’s largest LED sculpture is now live. The Bay Lights’ 25,000 LEDs form an ever-changing display that’s 1.8mi long and up to 500ft. high along the West Span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge.

The first Roku to have a motion controller for games, dual-band Wi-Fi, an Ethernet port, a USB port. It also comes with the new streamlined Roku user interface and Angry Birds Space pre-installed.

Latex-based covers for cameras and lenses that protect your camera without blocking its controls. The fundraiser is for Outex’s new viewfinder attachment. Find their current products here.

Inertia Labs’ cheeky entry into this year’s BarBot competition can pour and shake any three-ingredient cocktail you’d like. Drink up – assuming you can get past its unusual dispensing mechanism.

Vadim Kibardin’s prototype design for a computer mouse which hovers over the mouse pad using magnets. Its reduced friction is intended to prevent and alleviate carpal tunnel syndrome.

We’ve got enough trouble with Boston Dynamics beastly four-legged robot, but now it’s got the ability to pick up cinder blocks and toss them across the room. Nothing good could possibly come of this.

PoolLiveAid detects the table, cue and ball and then provides a virtual overlay of the ball’s trajectory. We’re not sure if it takes into account the strength and angle of the strike though.

The Headtune is a clip-on tuner that resembles the headstock of its matching instrument – guitar, bass or ukelele. Its LEDs make it easy to see a string’s peg position and the note that it’s tuned closest to.

Instead of helping you get drunk discreetly, the PowerFlask juices up your gadgets. It has a huge 13,000 mAh battery, two USB ports and a mini-USB port, so you can charge up to three devices at once.

Ok, so the produce in this video is used more for show than for sound but we still have to hand it to j.viewz for making such good use of a maKey maKey and his edible circuit triggers.

The DJI Phantom is a remote-controlled drone with a built-in mount for a GoPro camera. It can fly at up to 10 m/s for up to 15 mins and has a variety of auto-pilot modes. FPV footage here.

The latest version of YouTube’s mobile app adds a “send to TV” feature which allows you to wirelessly beam and control videos from your iOS or Android devices. You can also pair with an XBox or PS3.

A smart soundbar design that sits neatly beneath your TV for everyday viewing, but offers wireless, detachable surround speakers for movies. We also love the orientation sensor for tabletop placement.

A multi-talented mouse, the EGO! Smartmouse can also be used as an air mouse, a flash drive, a password manager, and a touch- and motion-based controller for games and other programs. Whew.

Like the Xperia Z phone, the Xperia Tablet Z is dust- and water-resistant. It has a 10.1″ 1920 x 1200 display, a 1.5GHz quad-core CPU, NFC and 4G/LTE, all in a 0.27″ thick, 17.5 oz. device.