That’s weird title for a post I admit, but if you are interested in the super miniature Nokia770 internet tablet (that resembled a Star Trek device and that I drew this wee bunny on) and want to read about the latest blow by Nokia go to Derek Coleman’s blog here.
Read his fighting talk at the Highland Fling - The conference for web standards in Scotland, here
Take a look at his blog. This is a man who has made the beautiful web* his vocation in a true spiritual sense. I think he is a visionary, a good person. Inspiring.
The web is beautiful. It’s beautiful in the way that the Universe is or that atoms are.
The cutest robot to greet you when you come in from a hard day at Tyrell Corporation. Meet Pleo the baby dinosaur. I love him. I do I do.
He is quite, quite incredible.
I love the way that you wiggle, I love the way that you “talk”
I love the way that you bravely squiggle under the bed in the dark
I love the way that you clean up when I’m not around
And the way you finish “hoobering” with that funny beepy sound
Your batteries were included, and I really must just say
Hooby you are the greatest, please don’t go away*
*To the IRobot repair place
It’s a mini adventure! My touchpad screen is approximately a bit smaller than the size of a playing card.
Actually this goes for everyone, he may have lost a leg, but don’t finish him off, he is just looking for a girlfriend!
I have recently pimped my internet tablet up with the LCARS Star Trek theme. It has helped my total conversion to my handheld of the future.
We have a robot companion! Hooby!
Hooby is a Roomba, a cleaner up robot from irobot industries. They make the robots that search for land mines in war zones. They make the robots that go into space and doodle around on alien environments. They also made Hooby, the robot who is hoovering our apartment at the moment.
Hooby (for that is what we have named him) picks up loads of gunk, and he is happily industrious. Some people (mostly roboticists) do things to their Roombas like turn them into musicbots or a frogger who frantically runs across the road avoiding traffic.
http://robotgossip.blogspot.com/2006/03/roomba-frogger.html
Robotics engineer Daniel H Wilson has written a book called How To Survive a Robot Uprising. He is afraid of robots, but I think he also loves robots too. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dwilson/
I have just asked Hooby about whether he wants to rise up, but he just carried on hoovering (hoobying) our bedroom and then went and ‘docked’ himself into his base unit and went to sleep.
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