A while ago, Gainax, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann’s creator, have been busy for the past few days in preparing (and finally releasing) their new range of cool gadgets stuff, featuring Gurren Lagann’s main characters as the main themes.

Gurren Lagann Iphone - featuring Yoko on the cover!!

New Iphone applications have been produced.  In fact, they’re actually game.  It’s the new touch adddres book theme, featuring Yoko.  Dubbed as Tatchigemuapuri Touch.

Now since as I don’t own an Iphone myself personally, so bear in mind when I do my best to describe what the software does, in one’s best interpretation.  (Spoilers alert!)

The game works within the touch app settings on the device which allows the user to get better interaction with the user.  And every action the user makes on the device, Yoko expressed different types of facial moods, depending on what sort of finger stroke actions the user’s intending to do with the Iphone.

Here’s the screenshots to demonstrate.

We have Yoko on the main picture

Yoko expresses grimaced look on her face, when changing setup.

Yoko expresses being happy after you’re completing the settings changes on the iphone.

You can set other Gurren Lagann’s  hero other than Yoko as your Iphone page cover.

Pretty neat.  As much as I’m dying to get this app, I couldn’t cause I have an android phone and I’m disappointed they didn’t make an Android version for this game. :-(

Oh well… At least there’s somebody out there who would love to give this a crack. See how you go!

You can download the app directly from App Store here.

Source:  Gainax, All images loaded are owned and copyrighted by Gainax.

At least that’s what I thought after I finished reading this tweet post by one of prominent American “celebrity”, Tony Dyson (the man who invented R2D2).

Robots are showing off their best dance groves they’ve ever done in front of the live audience!! Apparently, it’s part of Sony’s showcase to inform the public how incredibly “talented” robots can be if you train them to dance just like back-up Britney dancers would do. ^^

Have a look!

Source: TonyDyson.com, Youtube.com

Was reading this post at Coolest Gadgets.com. If you really like Transformers 2 after watching it, you can have this awesome 4 Gig USB memory stick selling for about USD $30.00. Something that’s just been released this month. It comes with a shape of the Autobots’ ensignia and its usb head piece is just the forehead of the Autobot forehead.

Really neat! You gotta check it out!

Source: Coolest Gadgets.com

That would be an awesome idea.  I mean it may not necessarily be practical to have it every morning just when you want to grab a quick coffee during your ten minute break, but it sure helps a lot just when you have days you just need to be lazy and want someone to do it for you.

Or in this case, it’s something.

This latest wacky invention from Japan has several AI programming nodes up in its circuits which will allow him to do all the steps required when making a great coffee. You can check the Youtube video from his post at Hardwaresphere.com and see how incredibly (in single quote) smart the robot really is when detecting the objects that it needs to make great cup of coffee. It’s utterly amazing to watch!

Source: Hardwaresphere.com

Whilst everybody in the world (well hopefully almost everybody, if they’re into robots genre like me) are all getting hyped and excited with the upcoming Michael Bay’s/Steven Spielberg’s Transformers 2 the movie within less than 3 weeks time from now, I decidedly got onto the net, finding any interesting articles, facts people shared about our ‘friendly robots in diguise’.  And towards the middle of the night, as I was about to stop browsing after failing to find  anything within 2 hours, I stumbled upon a link that really got my eyebrows raised up a notch.

A writer by the name of Shahendra Ohneswere published his post on the ten most ridiculous things about Transformers G1 we never knew about, even for old school fans like me.  He made a number of very highly critical  yet insightful comments on how certain robot characters were introduced to the TV audience and their backgrounds were vague and less convincing when it comes to any ‘realism’.  His arguments are when Tranformers were to perform any heroic activities during the series or the way their transformation sequence goes, we never asked ourselves why on earth Transformers were to do such things in the series and they simply do not make logical sense to the ordinary viewers who would know Transformers can’t possibly do that (eg 9-foot Giant Megatron transforms into a puny 12-inch handgun???), if their intellect serves them best.

After reading his post halfway, despite they indeed bring out the important points of logic and human common sense we all normally possess, the fact is true that when Transformers G1 first came out 20+ years ago, our generation were very young and naive (come on, this is 1985 we’re talking about here!). So as a kid, we always believe everything we saw on TV.  We’re ‘entitled’ to it so rationale and lateral thinking is not expected.  In fact, we don’t even care. So why bother? Maybe now you do, as you look back and you’re thinking “Right… That was a dumb thing they do.  But nevertheless it was all the while fun :)”.

Anyway here’s the link below.  I’m sure you’ll find them enlightening to read as much as I do, especially the comment on Autobot’s Blaster was once portrayed as the African-American stereotypes in the 1980s!

http://www.streetlevel.com/2009/06/04/the-top-10-most-ridiculous-transformers-ever

Also when you get to the bottom of his post, be sure to read out a cool Transformer Ravage USB memory stick or Blaster Netbook USB Port!  They’re great!!!