http://www.queenofcheap.com/blog Be all you can be without spending your moolah! Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:24:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Filed under: RobotsWhile we swear our Roomba reacts to our moods, researchers at Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology have developed a humanoid bot that can use communicate using gestures. The 187-pound robot stands about five feet tall and uses a 3D vision system to recognize gestures like ... http://www.queenofcheap.com/blog/researchers-develop-robot-with-non-verbal-communications-skills-617/ Regardless of what your Halloween plans might entail, chances are pretty good that you'll eventually come face to face with the compressed, Lycra-silhouetted junk of at least one dude dressed as a superhero. Pretty on the Outside decided to grade some of the shrink-wrapped celebrity shlong on display this haunting ... http://www.queenofcheap.com/blog/adrian-greniers-mystery-package-confounds-celebrity-shlong-scrutinizers-bulges-616/ Filed under: DisplaysIt's getting hard to distinguish all the different LED technologies out there from one another, but Light Beam Industries' so-called LED-C system looks like it may have a shot at standing out from the crowd, with it promising to let you create any color LED you like. Light ... http://www.queenofcheap.com/blog/led-c-turns-lite-brite-green-with-envy-615/ newVideoPlayer("Letterman_Seinfeld_Cookbook.flv", 475, 376);Appearing on Late Show last night to promote a small, low-profile animated movie soon to make its way into select art houses across the country, Hubbardian dabbler Jerry Seinfeld used the opportunity to try out a tight, three-minute set of new material based entirely around the everyman premise, ... http://www.queenofcheap.com/blog/seinfeld-to-letterman-whats-the-deal-with-that-crazy-woman-my-wife-stole-all-her-cookbook-ideas-from-revenge-comedy-614/ http://www.queenofcheap.com/blog/613-613/ Filed under: Cellphones, PeripheralsNokia -- always known to break a phone-lover off some snazzy new junk -- currently wants to get up in your headspace with its new Bluetooth earpiece, the BH-101. What can the BH-101 do for you, you ask? Well for starters, it'll deliver eight hours of talktime, ... http://www.queenofcheap.com/blog/nokia-intros-the-bh-101-bluetooth-earpiece-612/ ? Universal and New Line join the list of those who strenuously object to the WGA's strike rules, warning writers in their employ that complying with their union's demands to validate the scripts they're trying to turn in before tomorrow's deadline will put them in breach of contract. [Variety]· ... http://www.queenofcheap.com/blog/warner-bros-wants-to-get-even-deeper-into-the-tyra-banks-business-trade-roundup-611/ The Lane Garrison legal saga found a measure of closure today, a judge having decided that 40 months in jail was a suitable sentence for the Prison Break actor's cokey-boozy bender that ended in the death of Beverly Hills High School student Vahagn Setian. From the AP report:"The public has ... http://www.queenofcheap.com/blog/lane-garrison-gets-40-months-without-possibility-of-kick-ass-high-school-parties-rulings-610/ http://www.queenofcheap.com/blog/609-609/ With a significant portion of Southern California engulfed in apocalyptic hellfires sent by a vengeful God clearly envious of our year-round good weather and easily accessible, delicious produce, the hardy footsoldiers dispatched to the front lines of this unwinnable war display extraordinary courage in the line of duty. We speak, ... http://www.queenofcheap.com/blog/wildfires-britney-stalking-paparazzi-fiddle-with-their-cameras-as-malibu-burns-608/