Listen to the awesome cast of The Lion King start singing on a plane

Listen to the awesome cast of The Lion King start singing on a plane

This is either the best flight ever—if it wasn’t delayed and you managed to eat and rest beforehand—or the worst flight ever—if you’re trying to catch up on sleep and are stuck next to an oversized mouth breather. Still, I’d like to think that most people with a working heart that pumps blood would have a good time listening to the beautiful cast of The Lion King in Australia start singing The Circle of Life before their flight took off. But flying sucks so much these days that I can totally imagine cranky travelers telling them to shut the eff up.

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Animatronic Ray Charles Performs on the Streets of Osaka: Hit the Road, Jack!

You expect to see robots in Japan, but nowadays even their street performers are animatronic. Now, someone in Osaka has developed his own life-size singing Ray Charles robot. He may have Georgia on his mind, but this Ray lives in Japan.


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As cheap, homemade robots go, the likeness is pretty good. The “skin” is made entirely out of paper clay. The robot appears to be playing the keyboard while his mouth moves to the words. However, all of the music comes from a speaker inside the heart of the machine, not the keyboard.

It’s creator made the robot for less than 150,000 yen (~$1,520 USD). That’s not a bad price to spread your love of music to the public – especially if the crowd is in the tipping mood.

[via Rocketnews]

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Of course your smartphone (or tablet) can handle Karaoke, but you don’t want to have to hold a screen while you’re rocking out and driving the neighbors insane; you want a microphone, to add to the ridiculous fantasy that you’re worth listening to. Enter the AppToyz AppSing, complete with scorpion-like phone holder. More »