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Crave explores Maker Faire: playing with robots and videos games, chatting with inventors, gawking at Steve Wozniak, and tripping out on bicycle-powered blinky lights. Fun!
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The Rave 'Raffe, a Burning Man concoction whose popularity has brought it to various tech events, made quite a splash at the Maker Faire in San Mateo, Calif., on April 23. CNET News.com's Daniel Terdiman interviews the robot's builder and friend, Lindsay Lawlor, on the floor.
Build your own wireless game controllers
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From Japan: Next year's gadgets
Toshiba, Panasonic, Hitachi and others gathered earlier this month at the Ceatec trade show in Japan to show off their new and future TVs,\r\nMP3s players, phones and household robots. Think of it as a preview of the Consumer Electronics Show. CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos brings\r\nback this report from the floor of the Makuhari Messe outside of Tokyo.
Robots. Giant robots. Giant robots fighting each other--just one of the many things to expect from the upcoming Gundam World title.
Gecko-inspired robot goes vertical
The climbing robot from Stanford University doesn't have sticky feet at all. Instead, Stickybot relies on gecko-inspired technology to scale walls. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi visits with the little creature and learns that one day this tech may also enable us to climb like Spider-Man...err, Gecko-Man.
