Honda just keeps coming up with more ways to make their Asimo robot one of the most remarkable inventions in the realm of personal robotics. This time they’ve done it by creating a brain-machine interface (or BMI) that allows a user to control (albeit in fairly limited fashion) Asimo through nothing more than their very own thoughts. Think about raising your right hand? Asimo does it seconds later. Think about walking? Done. Hopefully, though, once this technology allows for more and more complex actions, it won’t take some thoughts too literally.

Asimo Robot Controlled By Human Thought

(image and story via Pink Tentacle)

By Stewart Smith

You can get in touch with your 80’s video game geekiness with these 917 Lo Mega! sneakers from Puma. Puma pays homage to the classic Capcom character by stating, “A fantastic material and color update inspired by Mega Man, a video game first released by Capcom in 1987. Whether you’re familiar with the character or not, this synthetic leather material looks and feels like vinyl, giving the upper a shiny, retro-futuristic look. The addition of the perforated underlays, painted eyelets, & video game inspired pixelated emboss on the toe bumper complete this awesome look.” These sneakers don’t hurt the wallet too much as they’re at a reasonable $65 a pop. Get yours here.

via Destructoid

Were you able to check out Vinyl Life at Public Assembly last wednesday? Unfortunately, we weren’t able to make it since their gig fell on the same night as our NYTS2 event. Though Vinyl Life’s next live will once again be held on the same night as our NYTS2.5 event, you can check out both for a fun filled night! Vinyl Life is a unit that blurs the line between classic Hip Hop and electronic music. They stand out from the rest that are in the same realm by their live shows. They offer a sound that a DJ can’t create at a venue. “The music will reflect the multiple tastes of Vinyl Life’s three members and is set to traverse multiple genres including house, Hip-Hop, hip-house, electro and reggae. Vinyl Life will tour extensively in support of the release; taking their unique approach to live electronic music to hungry audiences across the world.”

Here’s another chance to check out the skull helicopter by Harvest by Haroshi this week on Thursday, April 2nd! We dubbed this event, NYTS2.5! This time you can check the art work at an event by Direct Drive, Chris Love & Rob Rewind. If you missed it the first time at NYTS2, this is another chance for you to check out the art work! More info after the jump:

Keita Takahashi, creator of the surreal roll ‘em up Katamari Damacy, announced at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco an iPhone version of Noby Noby Boy. No release date nor price point is currently known, but seeing how the Playstation 3 version was $4.99 in the US, it’s fair to guess that it will be similarly priced. Takahashi also noted during his panel that the game will hopefully have a shared scoreboard with the PS3 version of Noby Noby Boy.

The PS3 version of Noby Noby Boy is a mix of Stretch Armstrong, Hungry Hungry Hippos, and Crossfire. You play as Boy, who can eat any object in sight and then spit it out his backside. Doing so helps you in your quest to grow as long as you can. Your growth is then recorded and added to the length of Girl, a female who’s quest is to accumulate all the growth of all the Boys on Earth to make her own length stretch throughout the heavens.

All players connected to the Internet can contribute to Girl’s length. According to Takahashi, if players keep up their current rate of growth uploading, she will stretch to the size of the solar system in a mere 820 years. Perhaps the addition of all the iPhone Boys will help Girl reach her goal in a more reasonable number of centuries.

By Jedwin Calestino

GDC09: Noby Noby Boy stretching to iPhone (via Joystiq)

So there’s a new trailer out for the upcoming CGI Astro Boy movie and…it kinda, ya know…looks…good. I’m just as pleasantly surprised as anyone. Also, I never really realized this before now, but the story of Astro Boy is essentially Pinocchio, only, ya know, if Pinocchio could fly. And if he had laser cannons in his arms. Come to think of it, I doubt I’ll be able to watch or read the traditional story of Pinocchio now and not spend the whole time wishing he’d just shoot something with his laser cannons already. But such is the genius of Osamu Tezuka, I guess.

New Astro Boy Trailer (via SciFi Wire)

By Stewart Smith