World's First Fully Functioning Missile-Shooting Robotic Transformer

Readycharged writes "A generation's childhood dreams have come true with the creation of a working 'robot in disguise' Transformer which, when operated by remote control, morphs from a luxury sports car to a missile hurling robot in seconds. Japanese inventor Kenji Ishida is planning to make 10 lucky (and undoubtedly rich) purchasers owners of these toys in the run up to Christmas, having first displayed them at the Maker Faire in Tokyo during the first week of December. For those willing to wait a few years, Ishida plans to have created a life size, drivable model by 2030."

iBoiiing

[Tablizer]

Robot has a nice rack!

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[gregor-e]

Rack and pinion steering, no doubt.

Inb4...

[Synerg1y]

References to the transformers movies, those were aliens, this is a bit more local.

ARGH

[Antipater]

How many times do I have to aks you guys to spell "missile" preperly?

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[Tablizer]

Overhaul English to be purely fonetic. That's the real fix.

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[icebike]

Or learn to pronounce the word the British way, in which case the spelling is correct.
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/missile [oxfordlear...naries.com]

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[tolkienfan]

Er, no.
Pronunciation and spelling have little to do with each other, at least in English.
English, eight, light, naught, subpoena, psychology, knife... the list goes on and on.
Missile is spelled "missile" regardless of how you say it.

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[BumpyCarrot]

You should totally aks them again.

Just right for Christmas

[rrohbeck]

I hope it can shoot missle toes.

Re:Just right for Christmas

[dyingtolive]

Nope. Just TOW missiles.

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[Tablizer]

but that might give Saint a nick

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[strength_of_10_men]

I gotta say, this made my inner child smile with delight. None of it makes any sense or is very practical, but dang, that's just cool.

DO WANT!

Must have

[Sparticus789]

Required purchase for every evil mastermind living on an isolated island.

This...

[skelly33]

... is a duplicate [slashdot.org]

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[OzPeter]

... is a duplicate [slashdot.org]

Noe it's knot - your wrong!. The last story did knot mention chuting missles!

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[Lord Byron II]

... is a duplicate [slashdot.org]

You must be new here...

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[Hillgiant]

You FOOL! You had a perfect opportunity to c&p all the +5 Insightful comments.

or are you just glad to see me?

[Tablizer]

That's no fair: this guy has a sports car AND a big missile. Usually such a car is compensation for a small one.

interesting the first time i read it on /.

[who_stole_my_kidneys]

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/11/26/132237/real-life-transformer-robot-on-sale-in-japan [slashdot.org]

nice, but..

[bmimatt]

how much is it?

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[bar-agent]

So, maybe a dollar?

time on our hands

[PopeRatzo]

So, apparently all the human problems that don't require robot-firing missiles have been solved?

I hate to sound mean-spirited about this, but there is something a little bit wrong with anyone who learns how to use a few tools and suddenly calls himself a "maker" because he can now build the most trivial things ever.

I think about the amount of self-absorption required to believe that using tools is some paradigm-shifting phenomenon that puts you in the same category as DaVinci. Maybe it's because my dad was

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[Anonymous Coward]

WTF are you on about?

Who gives a shit about your dad and his "tools"...we're talking fucking ROBOTS here!

That Won't Last

[Greyfox]

If it's anything like the missile-shooting transformers in the 70s, one kid will poke his eye out or swallow one of the missiles and fuck it up for everyone. Pretty much the same reason you can't get buckyballs anymore...