Air Bass Robo by Teru Fujita

 We've had Teru Fujita in one of our shows (Candy Coated Custom Show) and recently I ran across a sweet piece he did for Peter Kato's Bedtime Bunnies show at MPH. In addition to being a talented musician, Teru is pretty much a mechanical genius. All of his pieces feature moving parts, electronics, and sometimes sounds or music. Lots of buttons, switches, doors. It's all drawn out by schematics beforehand, and then handcrafted, part by part. It's... pretty fucking intense. Look at the parts below for Air Bass Robo:

 This is a animatronic, music-playing robot. Teru never duplicates his work, so this is a one-off.  Click here to visit Teru's Behance page dedicated to this piece. Definitely an artist to follow there.

Click the image to go to Teru's Behance page for Air Bass Robo, and watch all the amazing videos...

Mimoco Runs a Kickstarter: BatteryBot,The Fun Mobile Device Charger with Personality

BatteryBot is the world's 1st and only character-based rechargeable backup battery for smartphones, tablets & mobile devices, by Mimoco!

Introducing...MimoPower BatteryBot by Mimoco and YOU! 

Mimoco®, The Art Toy meets Consumer Electronics Design Studio based in Boston, MA (and makers of MIMOBOT® character-based USB flash drives!) is proud to introduce the new MimoPower line of mobile charging accessories.
Kicking off the MimoPower line is BatteryBot, and we’re bringing it to Kickstarter first...because, well, we can’t do it without YOU!

10 Initial BatteryBot Designs!: 
To start off, we are committing to ten primary designs from our Animal Critterz and Core Series collections. You can be sure that the styles below will be produced and available once we hit our primary Kickstarter goal!

Features & Technical Specs

• Capacity: 5200mAh (minimum, may increase with stretch goals!)
• Cell Type: Li-ion battery 
• Input: DC 5V/1A [MicroUSB] 
• Output: DC 5V/2.1A [USB] 
• Cycle Life: 500 Full Charges 
• DC Charging Time: ~5 hours 
• Charging & Battery Indicator: LED light-up feet 
• Dimensions: 3.5” x 2” x 1.5” [89 x 51 x 38mm] 
• Weight: 5.1oz [145g] 
• MSRP: $70-$80 (but it's only $40 if you back their Kickstarter!)

CLICK HERE TO BACK THE BATTERYBOT KICKSTARTER