Hasta La Gadget!

For a little while, it looked like we got closure on the Neverland story arc on “Once Upon a Time,” complete with a happy ending. But it didn’t last very long. Regina managed to get Henry’s heart back from Peter Pan and restore it to her son. Then, Rumplestiltskin trapped Peter Pan in a box — but what was that thing with Pan and Henry’s eyes moments before Pan was trapped?

Later, with the Lost Boys and Wendy on Hook’s pirate ship and on their way home, Henry confronted Pan’s most loyal Lost Boy. “No matter what those other traitors due, I’m on Pan’s side. And Pan’s side only,” the Lost Boy told “Henry.”

And so, “Henry” revealed that he actually was Pan. “Peter Pan never fails,” he said. “He can’t be stopped, even when they think he’s defeated. When they think they’ve won. He finds a way.”

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We have seen the possibility of a urine-powered robot earlier last month, but here we are with scientists from the Bristol Robotics Laboratory in the UK who claimed to have developed a prototype robotic “heart” that will successfully be able to be powered solely by human urine alone. This is an interesting development, as this prototype heart was made using a 3D printer. Needless to say, the journey is far from finished, as a full working robot happens to be under development still, as the heart is the only working component at the moment.

In fact, this “heart” is made out of a rubber-like 3D printed material that is called TangoPlus, where it can charge up to 3.5 volts and perform 33 pumps thanks to just 2 milliliters of “fresh” human urine. If one were to extrapolate this particular idea, who knows, we could have an entire slew of ecologically-friendly robots that will be able to be powered simply by using energy from waste that has been collected from urinals, and public lavatories at that. Hopefully it has some sort of useful air filter, no? It would certainly be yucky to clean the innards of the robot, especially where the urine is gathered, don’t you think so?

Prototype Robotic “Heart” Runs Off Urine original content from Ubergizmo.

Now here is a robot that all criminals might want to avoid – the K5 Autonomous Data Machine which is touted to be a 300 pound crime fighting machine. In fact, it has been hailed as the next generation of digital night watchmen, coming in a 5-foot tall form factor that was specially designed so that it will stand guard all the way from night until dawn breaks. Described as being created “to augment private security services on corporate campuses and in large, vacant buildings and warehouses,” all of the tedious and monotonous monitoring will be handled by the K5, while all other ‘hands-on’ activities will fall upon human security personnel.

Knightscope, the creator of the K5, claims that it “utilizes a combination of autonomous robots and predictive analytics to provide a commanding but friendly physical presence while gathering important real-time on-site data with numerous sensors.” In the YouTube video above, it depicts the K5 as performing a sweep across a slew of license plate numbers on vehicles that were parked in an unidentified parking lot. It remains to be seen just how much the K5 will cost, but it will arrive with a video camera, thermal imaging sensors, a laser range finder, radar, air quality sensors, and a microphone. Unfortunately, this is one thing that the folks over at iFixit are unlikely to tear down and give us the Bill of Materials.

K5 Autonomous Data Machine Is A 300-Pound Crime Fighting Robot original content from Ubergizmo.

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