In GizmodoWorld, no one loves a cuppa quite like I do—although the amount of times I go to the kettle each day is giving me RSI. Anyways, two French guys have designed a cup of tea that stirs itself. Simple in its design, all you need do for it to work is channel your inner Cognac-drinker, swilling the liquid around the cup until the sugar has disolved. More info, including a How-To cartoon is after the jump.

The cup, called Ceramic For Mix, has a protruding base that bulges out—imagine a boa constrictor after an all-you-can-eat sheep buffet—and a ceramic ball that goes in the bottom. Pour in the PG Tips, add the milk, spoon in the sugar (if that is how you take your tea) and then swill the cup. Gravity ensures the ceramic ball doesn't bop you on the nose when you drink, apparently.

One of the designers, Florian Dussopt is expecting to sell his invention to cafes and bars, eliminating the need for a spoon (unless your sugar comes in a bowl, in which case you’ll have to use your hands to shovel the sugar into your cup.) Should this be seen as spoonicide? “The aim is not to kill the spoon but to suggest an alternative for a special occasion,” he says. So that’s alright, then. [Daily Mail]

This idea, by Eindhoven graduate Jelte Van Geest, is for a smart chair. Wave your library card in front of the chair’s sensor and it will follow you around like a lovesick puppy, providing somewhere for you to park your butt while you flick through various tomes in the library. Now, is this where I write something about saluting our smart-chair overlords, or something? [Core77 via Fresh Creation]

How times change, eh? Clicky for bigger. [Best Pic Ever via Spluch]

Austin band Spoon have collaborated before with yellow robot Keepon, but their new video, for “Don’t You Evah” gives us a little more than the first one. Keepon’s creator, Hideki Kozima, costars alongside the little blob of sunshine, and there’s a whole load of robot cameos toward the end.

If you want more of the same thing, only live, Keepon and Spoon will be making an appearance on September 10 at the Henry Fonda Theater in LA, kicking off Wired’s NextFest fair. [YouTube via Creative Commons]

Netflix’s online movie-streaming service has been hacked by a Very Clever Personâ„¢. The tools: Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player 11, FairUse4WM and Notepad. The method: finding and downloading the URL of the video file, getting the license key and stripping the DRM. Sounds simple enough. The catch: Only Netflix subscribers can do it. Logically, the rights management stripping only works on videos you have downloaded from their service. [Rorta via TV Squad]

There’s nothing like a bit of LA weirdness for a sunny summer morning. LA-based artist Jed Berk is the brains behind Blubber Bots, rather dreamy autonomous helium blimps that float around the place looking beautiful—rather like me, in fact. And just like us hoo-mans, all they really care about is "food" (represented by LED lights) and friendship.

Also called ALAVs, (Autonomous Lighter than Air Vehicles) the Blubber Bots sense and react to movement, sounds, lights and heat, thanks to the Sun SPOT chips that power their brains, which hang down beneath them*. LED lights and cellphone vibrators allow them to communicate amongst themselves—and, as the video shows, with us.

You can have your own for just $99, but you have to assemble it yourself. Alternatively, get yourself to LA and have Jed Berk himself help you out for $185.

*Another way in which they are similar to man.

Product Page [Maker Store via "Oh Gizmo]