Okay, This Dude Made a Real-Life Transformer
My apologies if you’ve already seen this video — it does have more than 360,000 views — but it’s just a touch over a week old, and if you haven’t seen it, you absolutely need to. This guy has made a remote-control car that can transform into a remote-control robot, and back again. The car drives, the robot stands up on his own, he can raise his arm in triumph, throw a few punches, and dance like a 60-year-old white man. It’s impressive as hell, really. Hasbro needs to hire this dude stat. Or use their elite team of snipers to kill him, steal all his notes, and make his body disappear, never to be seen again. One of the two. Just give me the opportunity to buy one of these damn things. Thanks to Hans D. for the tip.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.