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Pownce beer robot makes arms slightly more redundant
Pownce beer robot makes arms slightly more redundant
The great thing about being a geek is that you can do stuff without the nagging question "Why?". To a geek, the questions "Why have you made the toaster run a web server?", "Why have you built a teddy that speaks Twitter ?" and "Why am I not surprised you're single?" don't ever factor into ...
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Pownce Beer Robot Justifies Social Networking [Clips]
Gizmodo — ... 10 years, I hope we have the sense of humor to laugh at more than a few of our social network addictions as a grand social mistake, like bell bottoms or Friends. But until then, we have the Pownce-based beer pouring robot. And other than serving a brewsky with a bit too much head, it's tough to find much of anything wrong with this LEGO Mindstorms creation other than, you know, encouraging us to drink alone at our computers. [The Pownce Blog via Tech Digest] ...

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