Go get 'em kid, the future of rock'em sock'em

Ever seen that episode of Futurama where Bender becomes an Ultimate Robot Fighter? You know the one, where he starts out as Bender the Offender but ends up as Gender Bender and gets his shiny metal ass handed to him by the really big Destructor – the twist being that Destructor is controlled by that insect-looking guy who used to train Leela how to fight when she was younger but said women “lacked the way of the warrior” like a complete arse? Well, now you too can be that complete arse.

Welcome to.. usually I would stick the name of the robots here or the toy or whatever but I can’t find it. They’re essentially radio controlled boxing robots. Yes, I know there are plenty of toys like that around, at least two whole other choices, but these ones are unique. You hold the controllers as if you were playing a Nintendo Wii and you box. Punch punch jab punch slap punch. That kinda thing. The infrared controllers have all manner of accelerometers and tilt-sensors that detect you punching movements and translate them straight to the robot, with buttons on the controllers that control moving forwards and backwards. On the robots chest there is a target beneath four LEDs – hit the target and light an LED, light all four to win.

Please, please, please find me where I can buy these in England. For now the only place I can find them is in Canada – and they’re only bloody well sold out.

via WickedCoolGadgets

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