Archive for July, 2007

Robotic Flower by CMU

This Robotic flower is able to open and close in response to changes in light, or catch a thrown ball thanks to infrared detection sensors. But the real added-value is a new new standardized robotics platform called Qwerk.

Developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Qwerk is designed so that almost anyone can use it to [...]

Society, technologies

Gold-Farmers protestation against WoW

Recently Blizzard took new resolution to fight against the virtual gold-farming industry. One of the aspect is the on-line spam through low level aliases. The gold-farmers protested through a collective gnomic suicide filmed by a player. Funny stuff:

Freaky, Society