Even if you're not totally
on board with the pet cloning idea, you'd have to have a cold, cold heart not to at least melt at these pictures. I mean, baby puppies of any sort are awwww-worthy in my book.This is Bernann McKinney from Hollywood, California holding up a clone of her late pitbull terrier, Booger, at the Seoul National University animal hospital in Korea on August 5. Five clones were created by South Korean scientists in the world's first commercial cloning of a pet dog .
When I first shared a sneak peek at this
faux shuffle that a
friend of mine found in Korea most of you were mesmerized by its octagonal navigation and suspiciously familiar body shape and color. Some of you even wondered if the packaging for the fake shuffle was anything like the real Apple packaging. I was able to get my mittens on some additional pictures and the verdict is in: The creators of this noteworthy knock off may have focused on making the iClip.Se MP3 look just like the
shuffle, but they went for more modern,
iPhone-inspired packaging.
We've all agreed that the idea of organizing your wine rack with
RFID technology, an automatic identification method that relies on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders, is completely geek chic. We've also agreed that the prospect of
H&M allowing shoppers to purchase items via a Semacode bar that is read by a cell phone may revolutionize shopping, but is the notion of ordering food via RFID as intriguing?
This week
The Korea Times reported that McDonald's and SK Telecom have unveiled a new ordering system that will allow customers to use mobile phones and infra-red sensors to make orders from their table.
Remember Molly's
Dispatches From The Future (i.e. awesome diary from her trip to Hong Kong)? Well, consider this a
Back 2 The Future part two moment.
We've all seen David Beckham's new sharp
Motorola RAZR2 ads, which feature Becks showing off his RAZR2 in a chic suit, but who really wants Becks or his phone when his shirt is on? Motorola's
Korean site has released some saucy pics of our
favorite celebrity gadget endorser showing off his new phone in all his shirtless, tattooed glory. They've also created a fun
"Becoming Becks" flash feature that I can't understand, but I can totally appreciate.
When it comes to real robot love and adoration the US is light years behind other nations. Sure, we're down with
dancing robots and fancy
robot parking garages, but we don't seem to be as obsessed as other nations.
Case in point:
Word is South Korea is investing in a huge industrial park dedicated to robotics.
After months of playing coy with the press, EveR-2 Muse, the world's first entertainer-robot, has finally shown her many, creepy faces. Designed by KITEC (Korea Institute of Industrial Technology), EveR-2 Muse was first introduced to the world last October at the Robot World 2006 at COEX in Seoul, and is apparently quite the singer.
According to the
Korea Times, EveR2-Muse has the "appearance of a typical Korean woman in her 20s, can talk and sing, thanks to an embedded dialogue engine."
