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Alien Butler Pedestal Table: Roswell, Another Drink Please

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Because who hasn’t dreamed of employing an alien butler, manufacturer of over-the-top home and garden decor Design Toscano has created the Roswell the Alien Butler Pedestal Table. It’s a small $109 pedestal table in the shape of an alien, perfect for holding your out-of-this-world cocktail while reading a book on alien conspiracy theories. They are among us.

The table measures 10.5″ wide, 6″ deep, and 26″ tall, and weighs a modest 7-pounds, making it easy to pick up and carry around the house with you, so you always have a table at your disposal. Of course, you should probably have your actual butler do the carrying for you. I mean you do have a butler, don’t you? I know my wife does (SPOILER: it’s me!).

This table is perfect for the person who feels their home has been missing that certain… how do I put it… naked bony alien butt. You know they say if you make it, somebody will buy it, and I just bought one for every room in the house. It’s an alien butler invasion!

[via DudeIWantThat]

This 4-in-1 smart home appliance is the only butler you need

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Quarantine has really shown me that I could never be a butler should I ever plan to switch careers, in fact, I could use a butler to manage all the chores as I work from home. This is the part where I fall in love with Mr. Alfred – no, not Batman’s butler but a smart home appliance that serves as a humidifier, dehumidifier, air purifier, and vacuum. I think this confirms that all men are truly not the same!

Mr. Alfred is a conceptual smart air-management system that looks like an elegant bar cart – the gold rails add a retro finish while the muted grey body gives it rich yet subtle aesthetic. Instead of having four home appliances, you can just have one that does it all while saving space and upgrading your interior game. Mr. Alfred is designed to provide solutions for healthy air in your space by sensing the quality. It is precise and targeted at keeping your space clean. The sleek appliance is made of six important parts – the main body which is responsible to store and charge the detachable parts, a drone that monitors the space, a robot vacuum, an air purifier, humidifier, and dehumidifier. Fun fact: the three air-management parts rest on the robot vacuum that makes them portable.

The rails of the main body help with putting the air-purifier, humidifier, and dehumidifier on the robot vacuum when being used. After the job is done, all parts return to the main body to be stored and recharged. Mr. Alfred also includes a cleaning tool kit with brushes and sprays. The physical form of a trolley was used to match the image of a butler. The wheels make it easy to move around the house and the minimal style lets it become a beautiful furniture piece when not in use. Mr. Alfred has been an iconic butler forever and now it lives in the form of this smart concept design…now only if it also had a feature to shine a symbol in the sky.

Designer: Dawn BYSJ, S-W K, Ki-Beom Hwang, Dong-Jun and Citrine H

Jimmy Butler Out 3-6 Weeks With Elbow Injury

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Jimmy Butler will be out for the next three to six weeks.Butler, the Chicago Bulls' All-Star guard, has a left-elbow injury, per a March 2 press release on the team's official website:"The Chicago...

Savioke “Botlr” Robot Butler Goes into Service at California Hotel

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Going on a trip can be expensive not only because you need money for travel and food, but because so many people expect tips. A hotel in California is rolling out a new robot butler that will bring things to your room and the only tip the robot butler wants is tweets.

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The bot is called the SaviOne, but has been nicknamed “Botlr” for its job rolling through the halls of the Aloft Hotel in Cupertino, California starting on August 20. The staff will be able to put things into a compartment in the ‘bots head and then send it up to your room. It will deliver things like towels, toothpaste, and other small items.

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When the Botlr arrives at your room, the phone will ring. That’s because it lacks arms to knock on your door. The only tip the Botlr wants it a tweet with the hastag #meetbotlr. I would like one of these for my house, but I want it to have arms so it can grab drinks and snacks on its own and bring them to me.

[via Mashable via Techtimes]

Caron Butler Signs 2-Year Deal with Detroit Pistons

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The Detroit Pistons signed small forward Caron Butler to a two-year deal on July 13.The deal is said to be around $9 million, per The Detroit News' Vincent Goodwill, who also reports the Pistons...

Apple Has Gone Mad, Someone Call Don Draper (Or Don’t)

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In the first episode of Mad Men this season, Christina Hendricks’ character is sent to meet with the head of marketing from Butler Footwear. “Advertising’s just a small piece of the marketing mixture...

The Micklish Butler on Kickstarter

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The Butler has arrived on Kickstarter. The space saving organizer that keeps your phone, keys, wallet and glasses in one place has reduced it’s price ($79) – that’s if it can meet its Kickstarter goal. The design drips with neo mid-century flavor, warm enough to work in traditional homes, clean enough to look handsome on the walls of a modern home. The entire piece is CNC’d from black walnut and baltic birch ply – definitely timeless. Compatible with all iPhone models, Samsung S3 – S4, and the HTC One. Get chu’ some!

Designer: Micklish, Kickstarter

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Robot Carries Objects on Serving Trays: Robo-Butlers Around the Corner

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After watching the Woody Allen classic, Sleeper for the 1000th time, I assumed that we’d all have cold, impersonal robot butlers in our homes by now. Well, it turns out that one of the main challenges for robo-butlers is their lack of ability to carry items on a tray without spilling them.

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The issue is that keeping a tray horizontal during movement will result in easy spills when moving quickly. Thankfully, the guys at Willow Garage are working on a solution.

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By developing a set of balancing motions that minimize lateral force on the object, PhD student Tobias Kunz of Georgia Tech was able to get a PR2 robot to handle delicate objects on a tray, and glasses full of liquid without so much as a spill.

With a PR2 selling for $285,000 to $400,000, I’m still not sure we’ll have robot butlers serving us martinis any time soon, the same technique can be used to help industrial robots carrying delicate objects on trays, or open containers of liquids. If you happen to have a PR2 robot lying around, you can test out the movements on your ‘bot using the path trajectory files here.


Robot Can Use the Microwave, Begun These Hot Pockets Wars Have

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Robots can do all kinds of crazy things. They can save our lives in disaster situations, they can clean our homes, they can kill in wartime and now they can use microwaves. No, not as sensors or weapons. They can use the microwave to cook a meal. That they can’t eat. Yet.
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This robot’s name is HERB, the Home Exploring Robot Butler. He comes from Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute. As part of his training to become a better home exploring robot butler, he has learned to use a microwave. Well, he can at least microwave frozen food.

With robots being able to microwave frozen foods, lazy people like me have absolutely nothing left to do for ourselves – other than to buy robots.

[via IEEE Spectrum]