I guess it was only a matter of time before robots started to replace our athletes. Let’s face it, they’ve gotten a little boring, haven’t they? Getting paid thousands of Euros per week to kick a ball around. Bet they can’t kick it as fast as this Castrol build robot!
This monster was build in Japan and can kick a football at over 200km per hour which is roughly 120mph. Unfortunately, it won’t be making its debut on a team any time soon. I can imagine it’s down to the whole ‘killing an opposing player’ thing.
It’s ladled as an exhibition robot and was first launched to the public yesterday. Big news agencies such as Sky News caught it kicking a football on camera. As you can see from the picture above it’s basically a four wheeled machine with a spring loaded ‘foot’ on the left hand side. It’s controlled by a human operator.
This crazy spectacle will be kicking footballs at 200km/h over the next year all over Japan. Check out the power of this thing here.
YouTube streaming live entertainment – it was inevitable really. The world’s biggest video website was eventually going to push into the market of sites like UStream. For their first outing into this unfamiliar field they’re sticking with a market which is sure to please many of our Indian readers – live Indian Premier League Cricket.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear as though YouTube are taking any steps to secure broadcasting rights for Western sports such as football (World Cup 2010 would be a great launching pad), Golf, Rugby, American Football, Basketball or Tennis – all of which would have a huge audience. Perhaps they’re seeing how people adapt to watching sports online in a less prominent market before they go mainstream on YouTube.com.
They are due to begin broadcasting cricket on YouTube in March.
So, who would have though the first sport to receive mainstream online broadcasting attention would be Indian Cricket?
We have never really profiled any high tech camera’s here on Crenk, so thought it was about time I did. The sexy looking camera above is the thinnest and most rugged camera in the world at just 0.78 inches, the Casio EX-G1 is a camera to check out.
Features:
- 12.1 megapixel
- very thin at 0.78 inches
- Shock and water resistant
- 2.5 inch viewscreen
Price: $300
I was lucky enough today to receive some ear buds from v-mode. v-mode are a bit of a strange company in that they make headphones and also clothing under the same umbrella. The earphones that I received were the new vibe ii sports ear hooks.
First impressions from the packaging were good, but there simply just seemed to be a lot of packaging for a simply pair of ear buds.The little piece of novelty was that the box itself has two compartments that were had magnets build in to they stayed together.
Once inside after getting through the packaging (20 min) the speakers themselves seemed to be quite heavy, a lot heavier than a normal pair of ear buds. The Vibe ii is made especially for smartphones and the iPhone because they have included a built in microphone. The design of the microphone and overall look of the product is great, but the ear buds themselves are quite flat towards the end and if you listen to music for long periods on end then you might get a bit of a sore ear. 
Obviously the key to a good set of ear buds is the quality of sound and the Vibe ii seems to give off a much better quality to the average ear bud on the market today. Unfortunately for me the quality of depth within the sounds in slightly lacking and the volume of the sounds also seems to be low.
Overall the Vibe ii is a great set of ear buds that I’m sure will last you a long time. Vibe ii is ahead of the average ear buds simply because of the sounds quality but for the price (USD $119.99) it seems to be just not good enough.
