robot mania

[chimerically]

My life's been invaded by robots. It all started with dag29580863 getting a robotic dog last fall, when he was still at IBM. At the time he was exploring cognitive computing and was hoping to use it for something involving that, but when he moved to Google it came home with him

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[jilflirt]

Why not wire your house with X10?

[chimerically]

If they weren't so obnoxious with pop-under advertising, I might consider it ... though I don't know for what purpose we would do it. :~)

[cyt]

[c] has both the roomba & the scooba... it's a lot of fun. though i would say the roomba is more fun as robot since you don't have to monitor all the wet stuff ;)

[rubrick]

In the not-useful-but-funny category, Lore Sjöberg's alt.text column in Wired online featured a three-part series on cheap robots a while back: 1, 2, 3.

[jofish22]

nice icon! i stared at it for a while.

[olego]

Until I saw it, I had no idea how the sewing machines really worked!! That's so awesome, I stared at it too. :-)

[jofish22]

unrelated: do you know who if anyone at stanford got into the dc?

[chimerically]

Haven't heard of anyone ... I wonder if Heidy Maldonado applied ...

By the way, congrats on that! Awesome!