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Sunday, March 05, 2006

The Wonders of Modern Technology


I recently saw on campus the engineering students next to the Clyde Building working on their maze navagating autonomous robot and wondered about some of the projects we have here at "The BYU", as my grandmother would say. I love technology, robots, and the sort, but I wish we could have more focus on practical application. The quintessential example of what we should be sinking our time and money into is exemplified in this piece of magic at MIT. Please, please, please watch the video, and take special note of the androgenous banshee speaking the native tongue of its creation.

NOTE: Tone of voice unfortunately doesn't come across in blogging. This is all dripping with sarcasm, and that should become clear when you watch the video. So watch the video now.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I know one of the guys working on these robots. And let me tell you, they are intense stuff. The time, effort and obscene amount of computer coding knowledge that goes into these machines is amazing. Yes, you may not think that this has much to do with anything, but these robots are what some of these people want to do with their lives.