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Instead of getting yourself at the end of a long queue for an air ticket, you have an option that can make traveling on a business trip more than luxurious. The biggies in the Market are gearing up with the idea of super luxury liners that can be adopted by those who can afford them. To start off with we have the 160,000 tonne liner called the Independence of the Seas. It will be arriving in Southampton at the end of this month. There's also the ever luxurious Royal Caribbean liner that is in line with the biggest liners in the world. And this claim is justified since the crew on the ship serves a total of 100,000 meals a week to a total of 3,600 passengers.

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Cats make rather interesting pets. Firstly, because they cover up for their cunning by playing it cutely. And then they make you pet them all the more wit ha little encouraging in the form of a purr or a few winks. However, feeding them can prove a handful sometimes and if you fail in your masterly duties then you simply are punished by finding your fridge half empty or your cat itself missing in search for a better home. So you can save the trouble of fattening up your pet with the help of this brilliant Purring Robot Cat that responds to some kind strokes. It purrs when you stroke its back and meows when you scratch it on the head. It even has a fake breathing motion to make believe that it isn’t a fake.

The RoboBoa is an android with some attitude to glow your senses away. No, I’m not talking gibberish. The RoboBoa is a smart illuminant with around 41 different functions. The default mode is called the aware mode during which the robot will pick a target in the room and track its movements. Then comes the explore mode in which the bot gets mobile and starts roving around with a curious touch to his behavior as he encounters various objects. He can even synch with music and produce Disco Marquee Lights with the Party Mode. There are loads of other modes like the track mode, safety mode and many more. It also works as an alarm clock. What more can you ask for?

Nikko has started accepting pre-orders of their rendition of the R2 – D2 DVD Star Wars robot. Just that this one has a full DVD player and a LCD projector to go with it. It gives me creeps that articles about robots are more frequent on gizmodude these days. The projector can deliver images up to the size of 80 inches in size and with resolutions of 800x600 pixels. Other features include a 1,200 ANSI lumen brightness and contrast ratio of 500:1. Other features include an iPod docking system, 20W stereo speakers, headphone jack, VGA output port, memory card slots and a Falcon remote control.

The Guitar Heronoid makes playing the PS2 rendition of Guitar Hero so much easier and needing you to barely strain your precious fingers on the fret board. It is basically divided in to two parts: the brain and the body. Just like in the human body, the brain sends instructions to the body on receiving feeds in the form of PS2 video signals. These are later sent as commands and control the movements of digits, thus hitting the right note at the right time. It indeed is thrilling to watch a robot do something that you find hard, with so much ease.

Enough of the croaky male voices that most robots are subject to. I mean to say, that after all the efforts taken in making life a lot easier through the medium of robots, why do they have to end up being so ‘masculine’? Why aren’t there efforts put into making these so-called helpful robots into stress busters. It’s simple; all I’m asking for is a female assistant, in roboting terms, a robot that speaks in a woman’s voice. So, as if in answers to my deepest, darkest desire we have these Female Type (FT) robots made exclusively for a select few who are ready to grab them. 23 motors and a couple of gyroscopes present in these lovely ‘ladies’ have to be maintained once every two years.

Too tired to pour yourself that mug full of beer? Well gift yourself the coolest assistant on the block – the Robocco from Asahi. All this robot does is pours you a nice foamy mug of beer. Well, it’s programmed to do this so no complains of vice-consuming bots taking over the world. Robocco can be loaded with can be loaded with 6 cans of chilled beer and it removes them one by one and serves them in mugs. All this at a press of a button. The robot works fine with the standard Japanese size (350ml) cans and with American-sized (355ml) cans.

It take time for everyone to realize that they are aging and by the time they realize that, they are really too aged to take any action. So I suggest the old and the lazy (who inevitably fall into the ‘slow’ category) to exploit this invention here. Sometime in the near future we shall have the very exquisite and much needed exoskeleton released in the land of the rising sun. Yes, Japan. The device was developed to aid the old and the handicapped ‘only’ but some really lethargic minds have shown interest off late. This will only make the sellers happier. You can of course hope for this device to even levitate the food off the table and place it before you. But sadly, technology isn’t all that advanced as off now. How about a trip to ET’s land?