Blade Runner: The Final Cut is Ridley Scott's definitive director’s cut and plays at the Landmark in Los Angeles this Friday.

Engadget visited the Robot Museum in Nagoya, Japan. From the pictures, it doesn't seem as interesting as one would hope but you can have a look for yourself.

Always having an incredible sense of style, it's no surprise that Duran Duran is promoting their new album on men.style.com. At 45 years, Nick Rhodes still looks awesome and remains my favorite member of the band. Some classic Duran is featured below, in their NSFW video, The Chauffer directed by Ian Emes. This moody black-and-white video is the only one from the album Rio in which the band do not appear at all, and is said to have been inspired in part by Charlotte Rampling's "Dance of the Seven Veils" in the film The Night Porter and the photography of Helmut Newton.

Have a great weekend, robots!

I'm eagerly awaiting the release of the Pacemaker portable DJ device from Tonium. I've been waiting for a device like this; with so many kids DJing in bedrooms all across the globe it's not hard to imagine that this or something like it will become the new iPod for the creative set. It's been getting great pre-release press which indicates it lives up to expectations. At over 500 euros, it won't be a toy for everyone, but if you look at some of the DJ endorsements in their video section, I bet you'll see one in use soon at a nightclub near you.

Check out this cool demo for the TENORI-ON musical interface. Reminds me a little of a low-res JazzMutant Lemur.

I know I'm a little late to the party with this post, but Volvo's recently announced ReCharge concept is a Hybrid that actually looks like a car I would love to drive (I once heard the Prius described as the orthopedic shoe of automotive design, a sentiment I agree with).

The all-wheel drive propulsion will be provided courtesy of wheel motors at all four corners with sufficient capacity for 62 miles of electric driving. Once the battery state of charge dips to thirty percent, a 1.6L four cylinder flex-fuel engine bolted to a generator starts up to re-charge the battery. The ReCharge can also be plugged in to replenish the battery energy.

More at AutoBlog Green.

My weekend in San Francisco was a blast. As evidenced by all the skinny ties and asymetrical haircuts at the Rickshaw Stop, my fellow robots are keeping the irobotnik spirit alive and well. Aside from the Il Flagranti show, and seeing good friends, one of the high points of my weekend was a visit to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to see the Dark Matters show, a group exhibition of hi-tech installations, photography, video and conceptual projects that uncover the unexpected, the invisible and the hidden.

Two works that I found especially memorable were the internet-eavesdropping installation Listening Post (videos) by Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen and the beautiful collection of photographs in the Library of Dust exhibit by David Maisel.

In Library of Dust, each photograph shows a greatly eroded canister of cremated human remains found in the storage room of an old mental institution in Salem, Oregon.

If you're in SF, I highly recommend checking out the show which runs until 11/11/07.

TONIGHT, robiatches. The prodigal robot (that's me) returns to rock it in San Francisco. Be there.


Rickshaw Stop (155 Fell) $10