Robots Rap About Their Artificial Intelligence: Binary Solo!

These robots have mad skills bro. Robot’s Delight is a music video where robots rap about all of their great qualities to the tune of The Sugarhill Gang‘s 1979 hit song Rapper’s Delight. Yes, it’s as crazy and awesome as it sounds.


Watch in amazement and possibly horror as robots like the Japanese android Robovie-II and Erica rap about their complex artificial intelligence. Brag much? Erica rapping in that British voice is just weird, but these bots have some serious rapping skills. They can dance too.

Sorry human rappers, but these ‘bots are going to put you out of business very soon. Boogie, Robo-boogie!

[via Laughing Squid]

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“Wazer Wifle!”: A Fallout 3 Rap That’s Actually Pretty Good

Normally, when you see a YouTube rap based on a piece of geek culture, you know it’s going to be awful. Probably better than a local Mitsubishi dealer rap, but not by much. There’s usually no flow, the most boring and predictable rhymes in the world, a beat that sounds like it was rejected from a MC Hammer album in the ’80s, and that awful breathlessness that comes with attempting to rap without having any practice at all. It’s shameful.

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This isn’t. Wazer Wifle! takes one of the game’s many amusing side characters and some of that retro brass band music, mixes it up in a funky blender, and then rattles off a billion game references with some actual skill. It will get stuck in your head, and you’ll be sorely tempted to boot up Fallout 3 once more, just so you can turn some baddies to ash with your WAZER WIFLE!

[via YouTube]

Smule launches AutoRap for iOS and Android, Engadget’s editors drop some mad beats (video)

Smule launches AutoRap for iOS and Android, Engadget's editors drop some mad beats

Sure, we're often mistaken for some of hip-hop's illest emcees in our day-to-day lives, but the sad truth is that Engadget's editorial team could use a little help with our flow. Thankfully, technology has come to the rescue, yet again -- this time in the form of AutoRap, the latest app from the people who brought you such mobile blockbusters as I am T-Pain and Songify. Those who've spent time with either of the aforementioned apps know what to expect from this latest addition to the Smule family: talk or rap into your iPhone or Android device, tap the button, and then wait for the magic. AutoRap will go to town, or as Smule puts it: "turn[ing] speech into rap and correct[ing] bad rapping."

Talking and rapping are the two primary modes here. With the former, you simply speak into your phone, and the app chops your voice and buries it in a whole mess of autotuney goodness. There's a pretty broad handful of songs at present, including 30 premium tracks from the likes of Snoop Dog, the Beastie Boys, Outkast and Kid Cudi -- naturally, if you want access to those, you're gonna have to pony up some cash, or earn some credits doing things like watching instructional videos or filling out auto insurance quote forms. The free tracks mostly get the job done, however.

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2Pac Hologram May Go on Tour

If you’re a fan of rap music, you may have already heard about the Tupac Shakur “hologram” that was on stage at the Coachella Music Festival in California back over the weekend. That means that the performance wasn’t simply a archival video running from an old performance, rather it’s a synthetic creation. Though it wasn’t an actual hologram, it’s still cool.

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Bringing 2Pac on stage was the idea of Dr. Dre and 2Pac performed a very realistic set on stage with Snoop Dogg and other stars. The company that provided the projectors was called AV Concepts and a CGI studio called Digital Domain actually created the digital 2Pac. Digital Domain is the company that created the CGI effects that brought the young Jeff Bridges to the screen in Tron: Legacy. The exact details on how exactly the effect was pulled off are being withheld, though you can see a bit about how the technology works in the video clip below:

The process of projecting the image uses overhead projectors and a thin sheet of reflective mylar film. The illusion was so well received that there is talk of the holographic 2Pac going on tour. There are numerous videos online of the holographic performance, but be warned they contain NSFW lyrics:

[via WSJ]