A new robot is supposed to clean urinals. The engineers at Mertec Engineering, the company that brought us this life-changing invention, claim that the robot can save eight liters of water while cleaning urinals. And it does this in only 10 seconds. If you happen to be in Kobe airport, you can watch the invention in action.

The robot is called “DASUBEE” that after the letters DCBA, which are ACBC backwards. The origin for that name is the reverse process which help the robot clean the urinals. No points on copywriting here.

Anyway, If you want it to help you with your cleaning chores, you should prepare to cough up 1,000,000 Yen, which are like $9,600. Let us save you the calculation, you can buy lot’s of brushes and detergent with this kind of money. In the mean time you can relax with a bunch of robots killing each other or some useless robots.

More: [3yen]

Source (Japanese): [Robot Watch]

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Let’s suppose you are in space and get bored. Maybe you will watch the starts, research something important – but if you are a Japanese

astronaut you will throw a boomerang into space.

The boomerang came back and didn’t disappear in some worm hole. Astronaut Takao Doi threw the boomerang to the request of Yasuhiro Togai, a world champion in boomerang throwing.

By the way, Doi is in space with the US shuttle Endeavour and help to built the first Japanese laboratory in space. We can’t wait to see what they will invent in zero gravity, after the invention made on earth.

More [AFP]