Gadgetory

it's Tuesday februari 14th a little day we call Valentine's Day I'm Donald bell I'm Banita you were experiencing the lovely the loving the Valentine's embrace heart the heart robot Harding yes create a podcast and um yeah yeah thanks for joining us yeah we have a lovely and exciting assortment of stories here today I'm excited I'm genuinely Imperial welcome Eric's not here and Eric's not being here right well I mean if it it removes some of the / factor it daddy but i think the the fact that Valentine's Day throws a little bit of it back in plus I don't think it's too soon to give away our special guests over yeah let's keep in the perfect girl I look at them dude you won't be saying that five minutes when you see what Hannah be here I don't think hmm if you're lucky yeah your valentine or yourself acting as your virtual Valentine bought you this first item zombie chocolates bonbons zombie head bonbons now do these actually come with a rifle casing no siree that's an optional accessory shotgun shells not included oh that well I don't want him this though pretty pretty dope yeah um and the best way I mean I feel like it'd be better though if you were the zombie devouring little human heads to the actual I'm not gonna read too much into this but it's still pretty great oh yeah um i would actually want to devour zombies but if i were a zombie i would want to devour little you know right human heads yeah but i guess if you sold like little edible bombon shaped like baby heads I bet was he screwed up fell as well newsies yeah yeah could you I bet that's what guar probably the right they all sit around have a bat band meeting they have little baby head just delicious ice cream okay you're right yeah yeah I wonder what guardas for Valentine's Day that's a good question nothing father yeah something close someone think about uh what Bonnie was doing last week though I was very proud and excited to see her experimenting with a little bit little bits tell us a little bit about little bit let me tell you a little bit about little bits these are basically a set of circuit boards that you can snap together they attached via magnet and you can create whatever you want each little module has a functioning there's like an LED a bar graph pressure sensor and have them over there right here let me play with animal you talk about okay well all the power sources and lab but it cute packaging first of all yes but this is actually if you make a little nerdling in your Valentine's Day revelry mm-hmm this would be something you'd buy for them yeah kind of meant for like as like an educational tool for right so the person who made this wanted um for people to understand how electronics work and get them interested in creating their own devices instead of just consuming them hence little bits was born you get like a little little kind of potentiometer and a little button and a little LED and connect it all together you can connect it in different yeah ways yeah get the idea of how a signal path work exactly yeah so that starter kit costing Amazon rain without the soldering just magnets um so that costs eighty-nine dollars right there we are actually giving a kit away on Friday a reason to read the crave law so check out our crave giveaway at the end of the week and then out of this was born my little robots my god this is so great watching Bonnie try to make this yeah oh oh no no water on it maybe the champagne yeah Boxey oh yeah open his brains oh no we can't do that for the don't well that's so sad well as eyes light up red I guess that that's that score one for soldering though I don't have to worry about the magnet shaky yeah they're not as strong as that would think so if you had them if you take a lighter to it then you melt the plastic you confuse it make a permanent thing okay well we're not going to take a lighter to the boxee over there actually we can't even box oh yeah the bog the boxing robot names already taken yes a little cute and mighty robot yeah little cam no we need your help dear listeners yeah um send us a name to crave at cnet com and we might have some prizes for you well say like the champagne they're right next to him he could be boozy boot whose box this box I like that but send in the names anyway busy um but yeah boozy and keep on her I know and I was so inspired by Bonnie's working on the robot that I fashioned a little crown for keep on out of my peet's coffee cup holder nope I'm pretty proud of myself on that one question what does burger king crab about iving those years birthing wasn't it though yeah yeah alright so they're gonna keep this company here keep the keep the romance alive the end of that table um another thing that you could make for yourself or a loved one a fellow a fellow nerd DIY weekend project make your own Star Wars Admiral Ackbar SAS bar a paper bag fashioned Admiral Ackbar this is actually one of the better kind of little star wars projects I've seen yeah you could probably in store some shrimp chips in there and get the the genuine see alien aroma I always imagined a black bar smells a little for me but yeah these are from Bonnie Burton's star wore a craft book and I believe we're gonna have a couple more galleries coming up in the weeks ahead but I'm barsac bar yeah and then you can Santa could happen I guess I prom love it's a trap not a sentiment you should be sharing this now maybe tomorrow unless it's to yourself if they're all rolling you maybe have no shot bar and you're sad on valentine's day you're like well just a trap pretty good alright something I'm not craving for Valentine's Day as a kind of sexual as I think it's meant to be it's really disturbing these was a forty dollar pair $75 pair of muscle leggings yeah ya know that somebody no good what she's they could look a lot worse I'm but I'm her like someone who would otherwise you know be very attractive they're actually pretty repulsive but I bet you'd like stare if you saw her walking down the street in those leggings yeah but right before I barf into my hand um who was that it was a dr. Peabody or mystery buddy he was remember this mr. body or something about yeah but he always freaked me out yeah yeah that he had the full hit the full thing and yeah in the bathroom mr. body in you yeah here is yes yeah yeah yeah probably organ good buddy that's no I would do for years 1985 289 yeah so this I guess a little bit more attractive than that I would take this over that by oh yeah I would not wear these are one anybody to wear these liver oh yeah alright moving on to actual craveable gadgets this one's coming to us from as like a preview from the toy company was it Wow stuff mmm and it's a video that's quickly gone I don't wanna say virulence overused but it's picked up steam on youtube as this like little spider toy robot prototype and the guy who is its maker is half of the videos appeal this guy is so enthusiastic like oh my god foam darts and we can show shoot ping pong balls by attaching these various things you know you should a ping pong ball this one this one's really cool because the longer you hold down the the shoot button the more charges up in the farther the ping pong ball shoots so you could hypothetically line some cups up in shoot different distances and get it in all of them or if you're battling again I can let's just let's do it really cool well it's like you realize that this is the this is what happened like if if you date this back to like Robin Williams being the toys movie I asked where he's like the Willy Wonka of his toy factory this guy is the product of that you're right putting different gear on it yeah there's like little armor then there's armor that goes on top of the armor that can pop off if you give it a direct hit with like the ping pong balls or like little foam dart dismay it's neat and but when you kind of take yourself away from his enthusiasm about it and realize that yeah it's it's just a toy I mean I got a pretty cool toy but not as cool as maybe his fake enthusiasm for it deserves he come with a robot and you can have you have two different ones you have a good guy and a bad guy and they can chase each other and shoot at each other doing what the control maybe there's no other with the same time okay yeah I mean we make a lot of jokes about the perpetual adolescence of you know technology and yeah and hey you know what but Todd that guy is making them work for me and it and actually I like I I really do appreciate those little peeks into like that job that guy having that job and clearly he's pretty excited about that job yeah like I want him to go to like high schools talk about inspire kids to like take on their jobs is toy creamy action would be high school kids I don't know I mean he probably shouldn't show up in that exact take me out of it yeah but uh this team isn't a tshirt o.o i do i do kind of want this toy go say that um so you can see the whole video will have it in the show notes check it out and they're doing a naming contest for two they didn't have a name for this spider bot so you can submit your it's hard to name of our name for I know who knew like booze bot is not boozy yeah um nether craveable item i'm calling this like this block of stories the retro block electro win Locka because converse is actually releasing in japan a version of these uh one star low tops with mario and the the star from mario brothers on the side you should see them only in japan apparently hmm yeah I for undisclosed price at an undisclosed time but those would be pretty good as a great I don't know it's only rock the black bear for sure I don't know I mean as much as I want them like as a collector I put them on my shelf yeah if I had them i would feel kind of pervy like I would preppy like they're so like uh no like adolescent like I would feel like a pederast walking past the school would be Zhaan you know I never thought of it that way well as a guy i think was a little more sensitive to these issues but yeah cool she was nonetheless circle i would but i would put them up on a shelf yeah you could do it too just not yes i guess not but what i would do is next one be back to the future hover board has gotten a lot of traction on crave and but now they're actually coming out with a like a well-done prop replica of the back of the few nights to prop or a hoverboard yes so mattel announced at the Toy Fair this weekend I believe that they're finally releasing a hoverboard it doesn't have a regular it glides quote-unquote glides over most surfaces how is it doing this like Teflon coated on the bag figure that out but I have not gotten the answer um but you know everything else is there including the neon colors in the little whore they you know Michael J Fox Marty McFly ripped off the handle bar and pool they are taking pre-orders starting march first through the 20th and then with expected ship date of november december 2012 but they have to receive a minimum number of pre-orders in order to go to production because it's a high cost item so the silly should a Kickstarter this I mean even hey done that yeah yeah cuz you could really get it I meant a good totally yeah and they haven't released pricing information which I think it's gonna be pretty high but that's all and they should do the bundle with the night you with the next mags yeah yeah hmm and like some kind of garbage juicer that can help fuel your car yes I think are you can buy well I don't know if it's actually but there's a replica of that you can buy two yeah yeah I was very excited about this and they got to watch clips it back to a future too while researching yeah ah pretty great oh this has been a pretty good week then um let's venture even without Eric maybe we can do this okay into the world Oh doom don't talk over the hollow doom quote it's very important yet we're getting a lot of xbox 720 rumors flying around somehow the 360 seems a little long in the tooth even though they did the the remix of it and the price lowering of it and the kinect connecting of it yeah ah people one xbox 720 and one of the latest rumors for is that it will have a touch screen remote I have mixed feelings on this what what what are your concerns and hopes the OCD part of me knows that the xbox controller i have in my house is probably one of the is probably ground zero for whatever kind of Ebola breakout okay right yeah it's got the the dorito fingers trust and like just hours of nerd aggression having been all greased over the marinating yep on that remote now I you know marrying that to my other part of my life which is using touch screen all day to review tablets right I know that those things turn into like just a greasy ugly mess sure when you use them yeah and putting them together it would just make this thing look like it would reveal how truly disgusting these things really are the best thing going for the current controllers design is that the matte black plastic kind of does a good job hiding the nasty yeah the touchscreen of doing that but on the other hand yeah would it be cool to have a touch screen on your own like I don't play I don't know I know that the new Nintendo Wii supposed to have the big yeah I mean that we usually do I still don't I still don't see it I feel like the best thing about a physical controller is the facts well by the physical buttons and then you're not looking at it while you're writing yeah yes no I mean it could be kind of cool in a few different instances to be able to do like targeting on the controller while you're playing it like I could see some use case is of it but mostly I just want my control sure I'm yeah but maybe I'm old school that way like I'm i can see your point there and also it's just gonna ramp up the price of these night well of course you know you're gonna need them for the whole family right and I can't have your kids fighting over the control actually yeah can do the targeting I don't know go be cool but yeah I feel like wait for that i'm not i'm not feeling it well the cool thing about the wii u is like if someone wants to watch TV then you could just play your Nintendo on your little touch screen so maybe they'll or braid that too yeah I could do like a little mini games or something on the screen I could see it yes but it probably will be a hundred bucks for this thing from one of them yeah do you play xbox no now a PS triple haha Oh send a we gotta we do yes I both uh both respect and feel sad free but I I can understand it uh the other thing that pops crossed my radar today is having been released yesterday the Abraham Lincoln vampire hunter trailer which is being staged by Tim Burton watch Tim and let's not forget while we're watching this is going to be in 3d Wow okay all right because that's something that's one thing to see vampire hunter Abraham Lincoln chopped through a tree sure but to know that those shards are gonna come flying out what's your face whole other thing different story let's check it out and I heard as it were the noise of thunder the old was this thing come and see tell us all and he'll follow now that is a date movie that is that's very romantic perfect valentine's day movie yeah so we have a zombie chocolates then we got the vampire hunter Abraham Lincoln I mean a you got all the bases covering so you got robots robot roman' that then don't worry i think that's it i don't think we can do anything in that yeah alright thanks for watching guys you should check out our crave blog at this thing down here I usually say crave cnet com take you there but see it calm / crave they all get you there they do man we own so many domains I'm surely you could type half of the things you can take it with a docudrama take you brave see never crave yeah um that's it Bonnie thank you for joining me Thank You Donald and later maybe next week we'll get eric franklin back in here he'll come out of this Valentine's Day coma yeah and I'll come back as a vampire or zombie yeah you can bring another robot and make this really yeah all right check your next time