Roofus is a radio-controlled snow plow designed to remove snow from roofs of buildings (thus, the name Roof-us) where it would be particularly risky for a human to do so.  Personally, I would like to employ it for my driveway during the winter and sit back with a warm coffee, directing it’s efforts.

Roofus also has additional attachments for use in seasons other than the winter, converting it to a remote-controlled lawnmower, or cleaning machine.

Roofus ranked in the top twenty among 300 entries at the International Design Competition 2007/JDF in Osaka.

Designer: Michal Glogowski

source: Yanko Design

Roofus seems to be an improvement over this design:

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Or this one:

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Designer Jake Loniak’s “Wearable Motorcycle” concept is something totally unique, I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s a motorcycle that you actually fit into. I can’t see anything like this remotely close to hitting the mainstream, but is definitally a fun concept that would be a thrill to drive.  

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Some say longboarding is as close to having a “surf” feel as you can get. But recently SoulArc released a brand new skateboard with a rigid top and below-deck composite spring that provides the action and feel of surfing (and shredding). Mitch Mulder partnered with Salvaore Vilardi to bring the board to market. Check out the video after the jump…

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Android which was purchased by Google back in 2005, will be releasing their new T-Mobile G1 phone next month, if all goes as planned. If you’ll notice the screen turns out and up which means there is no flipping involved. The G1 features a full QWERTY keyboard.

This data is coming from various sources, so none of this is confirmed official…

• 528Mhz Qualcomm 7201 processor
• Data kit for USB connectivity in the box
• 64MB Internal RAM
• 128MB Internal ROM
• 1GB MicroSD card
• 5 Row QWERTY keypad
• Trackball
• Dedicated camera button
• 3.1MP camera (no flash)
• Video playback files – H.264, streaming, 3GPP, MPEG4, and Codec 3GP
• Audio playback files – MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, MPEG4, WAV, MIDI, REAL AUDIO
• Wallpaper supports JPG, BMP, PNG, and GIF
• Speakerphone (mono, natch)
• Ringtones (MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA)
• HTTP, WAP Push, xHTML
• Bluetooth (class 1)
• Picture Caller ID
• SMS and MMS support (Take that Apple!)
• POP, IMAP, and SMTP, AOL, and GMAIL email
• AIM, MSN, and YAHOO messaging

take a look…

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Check out four of the Google offices located around the U.S. It looks to me like Google is a fun place to work. Check out the pictures…

Mountain View California, US

New York, US

New York office is Google’s largest software engineering center outside of headquarter Mountain View.

Santa Monica Arizona, US

One of the largest development centers in the United States, where engineers work on some of Google’s hardest problems, in realms such as Search Quality, YouTube, Ads, Video and Photos.

Chicago, US

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We’ve seen a prototype like this about a year ago by Microsoft that introduced the life like ‘Desk’top changing the whole format of compiling information. Well yesterday at the Stanford Cool Product Expo, BumpTop introduced their new touchscreen 3D desktop. One great thing about the BumpTop concept is that it requires no special hardware and can be run an any computer.

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You can use it with your mouse, or two mice to emulate a multitouch display. ‘Course, ideally you’d have a touchscreen to get the most out of the system, and by the time BumpTop launches later this year, hopefully we’ll have some affordable touchscreen computing platforms to choose from.

If you would like to become a Beta tester you can sign up at the BumpTop official website.

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Ok I’ll be the first one to admit that I’m never really too impressed with what robots can do. I always hear about millions of dollars of funding being spent on robotics, and I still haven’t found a robot that i really think could make a huge impact… until i watched this video. Boston Dynamics has built their reputation with what they have built on four legs. Their newest bot, the LittleDog can carry up to 350 pounds and is shockingly stable. The technology this robot uses I have never seen before and I’m truly impressed.

Here’s the BigDog, if you have a really short attention span, just fast forward to 35 seconds.

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