Steampunk Optimus Prime

Jeremy Werkheiser of MetalRelic gives scrap metal new life, and roses immortal life, with his miniature and full-size welded steel art sculptures. Home decor pieces and art relics range from the replica 27" Euro Mount...

I definitely wanted a set of MechaniCoasters to appease my fidgety fingers and steampunk penchant, and my wife's naggy inclinations and aversion to anything ring-shaped and wet touching her tables. But then I saw these...

Designing the Yardroid to look like a mini tank is pretty much all they needed to do to make me want this smart landscaping robot. But Yardroid takes the whole robotic lawn mower concept, like, 8 steps further with both...

Festo says its BionicOpter was inspired by dragonfly flight, and can perform great feats of flight and function. I'm not going to argue with that, but I would like to point out 2 things: 1) This supposed highly advanced...

Does depressing the S-76 Ampratite Plasma Pistol's spring steel trigger really release unstable and highly reactive Zephane gas for co-mingling with exposed Ampratite crystals, the consequences of which generate an intense...

Me: One 13-foot-tall, 9,920-pound menacing robot that I can either ride and pilot with mere hand and body gestures from a cockpit, or control remotely with my 3G connection, please...

I've never tried grilled bear, grilled horse, grilled wolf, grilled bull, or grilled ram, nor do I want to. But I would be amenable to trying a ram grill, bull grill, wolf grill, horse grill, or bear grill (not to be...

Elephant Robotics declares its myCobot "the world's smallest and lightest six-axis collaborative robot," and it kind of makes me wonder: 1) how'd they do that?!; and 2) how many small, light 6-axis collaborative robots...

I've seen a lot of tensegrity tables popping up - and staying up thanks to the wonders of suspension and tension - in online marketplaces lately. Are these displays of fine design and finer physics taking over for levitating...

Gas-powered mechanical wizard John Paul Rishea of Bionic Concepts follows up his Exo-Gauntlet Exoskeleton with this set of searing blue LED wings waiting to be scooped up by the first fancier of flight with $830. The...

Cindy Chinn didn't hand-saw these handsaws into the stunning scenes and pieces of art you see here, but she did hand-cut them with a plasma torch. And, from cowboys to emus, fishermen to Bigfoot, her technique is definitely...

Oh boy, the Penduloz is a real-life, gravity-powered machine for drawing my mama's favorite Windows screensaver! Mystify, I believe it was called, and boy did it ever do that to her. Birthday gift for Mama, check...