Celebrate Terminator 2’s 35th with the T-1000 VFX BTS and DJ T-1000

35 years later, the T-1000 is more relevant than ever. Terminator 2 debuted in the first weekend of July 1991. The groundbreaking mix of computer animation and practical effects has come full circle. And I can’t mention the T-1000 without mentioning Alan Oldham (DJ T-1000.) T-1000 Killer AI turns out to be chatbots causing psychosis, […]

Watch this Kazakh pop video for the maximum weirdness of Casio’s singing robot keyboard

Look, I don’t want to say that Casio missed a marketing opportunity here and buried the lede on their awesomely bizarre singing robot keyboard. I’m just saying watch this video and you tell me. It comes from Kazakhstan’s star Imanbek, and getting them one of these keyboards represents in my mind one of the greatest […]

Peter Kirn - January 21, 2022

Here’s how Mouse on Mars are using robots to expand their band

Analog and digital? That’s just a small slice of the pie. The post-digital / post-analog world uses those two ingredients but adds others, like biological, photochemical, optical, and perhaps most importantly, kinetic. Instead of electrifying screens and circuits, then, you can also make stuff move. Mouse on Mars, in collaboration with the Sonic Robots project […]

Peter Kirn - May 15, 2017

Watch a Flying Drone Play a Drum Machine

Peter Kirn - January 6, 2015

Crazy Video: Giant Robot Cassette Kills Giant Robot iPod Classic

- September 25, 2014

KORG and Yamaha Will Probably Eventually Replace All Of Us With Robot Avatars

- September 5, 2014

Drum and Bass, Made Analog, with Robots: Watch

- May 9, 2014

Bhoreal Makes Grids Color, Open, Controls Robots and Lasers; Final Hours of Funding

- June 20, 2013

Robots, Mimicking Bees, Cover a Room in a Drawn, Unbroken Line

Peter Kirn - January 14, 2013