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Camouflage Helicopter Audio Player

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This miniature military transport helicopter can really belt out the tunes. The Camouflage Helicopter Audio Player has both an FM radio with LED clock display where the cockpit would be and it can play music from flash cards or USB drives.
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The controls are right there in the front of the chopper and it comes in either green camo or yellow camo. The battery is USB rechargeable and there’s an aux line-in. Takes me back to my days in ‘nam (when I went on vacation in ’06, good times). I’m pretty sure the only appropriate music to play from this is Ride Of The Valkyries (from Apocalypse Now).

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Captain America Shield Dog Bed

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Is your dog just super, protecting your home from bad guys just like a superhero? Then give him the dog bed he deserves with a Captain America Shield Dog Bed. This 2.5 foot diameter round dog bed has the iconic red, white and blue shield on one side with a camouflage print on the reverse. Because we all know that our little four-legged superheroes need to take a really good nap before getting back to their life of crimefighting and tree sniffing.

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Urban Camouflage Case Turns Your Laptop into a Newspaper

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People with flawed morals and thieving hands would steal a laptop in a heartbeat, but I doubt any of them would want to steal your newspaper. So put this knowledge to good use and protect your notebook in more ways than one with the Urban Camouflage case.

It’s basically a cushy sleeve that looks like a newspaper on the outside. The catch is that the newspaper isn’t actually in English, so that knocks a couple of points off believability – unless you happen to live in Spain - then it’s perfect.

But at least that also reduces the possibility that someone grabs it accidentally because he or she actually thought that it was their newspaper, right? Right.

These quirky Urban Camouflage cases are available from the Fancy for $80(USD).


Flexible Starfish Robot Can Camouflage Itself

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In November of 2011, we talked a bit about a soft, flexible robot that was powered by compressed air. The Harvard University team that designed that soft and flexible robot is back with an updated version of the same air-powered robot that can camouflage itself. The camouflage properties can allow the robot to blend into its environment.

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Just like the robot from last year, this soft and flexible bot moves when compressed air is pumped into cylinders in the legs. The camouflage system takes cues from those found in cephalopods such as the octopus and squid. In the current design, dye is pumped through small channels inside the robot to quickly allow it to blend into its environment.

According to the researchers working on the project, cold or hot fluid can also be pumped into the robot to allow it to thermally hide itself from heat sensing cameras. The robot currently uses an external reservoir for the dye, but researchers developing the robot say in the future it could be integrated inside the robots body.

[via BBC News]


DARPA’s low-cost silicone robot cloaks like a chameleon, treks like a snail (video)

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DARPA's lowcost silicone robot cloaks like a chameleon, treks like a snail video

Remember those colorful sticky hands that you used to buy for a quarter from grocery store vending machines? Yeah, this is kind of like that -- except that it's a freaking robot. DARPA is currently working to develop low-cost silicone robots that use both air and fluid to control movement, color and temperature. In the following video, you can see one of these soft contraptions as it journeys onto a bed of rocks and then uses colored liquid to blend into its surroundings. Don't expect this glorious sticky hand to break any land speed records, however; the silicone bot can travel approximately 40 meters per hour, or up to 67 meters per hour without the fluid. (Even the 30 second video, which goes at a snail's pace, has been sped up five fold.)

The current demonstration implements a tethered solution as the robot's source of power, pumps, gasses and liquids, but future developments may allow for a self-contained system. Further, rather than improving the robot's speed, its developers will instead focus on its flexibility as a means for navigating within tight spaces. Be sure to peep the video below, and we think you'll agree that DARPA's creation easily puts those sticky hands to shame.

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