
MAKE: Blogger (and one time Joystiq contributor) Phillip Torrone and Limor Fried (creator of the awesome Pac-Man LED bike wheels) teamed up recently at the SXSW conference in Austin to use a Roomba robotic vacuum to play a real-life game of Frogger!
Armed with only a Bluetooth-enabled Roomba, a green t-shirt, and the alcoholic consumption necessary to devise such a brilliant idea, they managed the little "frog" across four lanes of traffic ten times before falling under the wheels of a Toyota 4-Runner.
Afterwards Torrone said, "We had a lot to drink before we got here but there's nothing to sober you up like steering a robot through traffic." Ah, truer words were never spoken... not ever.
[Thanks, redLlama]



















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THAT'S what that was.
Another reason to not drive under the influence; I thought I killed a crippled Kermit.
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I'll never get over how many people are uptight in this country, make a fuss about things that don't really matter, then ruin life for the rest of us by sucking the fun out of everything.
take dave, for example...
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And, yeah, someone could have been killed but, you know what? No one was...no one but that poor, brave roomba. Go real-life Frogger!
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Now, the invisible rope trick, on the other hand, that's hilarious.
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That is, by far, the COOLEST word that I've heard in a long time.
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The "fun in everything" of this sort would transform into tragedy astoundingly rapidly when something bad happens and it's your own daughter or brother whose life is ruined in the name of someone's fun. "Fun" should not involve jeopardizing two-ton fragile machines traveling at 70 miles per hour in close proximity carrying non-consenting live people.
And saying "yeah, someone could have been killed, but no one was" is such a rationally handicapped statement that I wouldn't even know where to start responding to it. So I won't.
In case your "uptight" stereotype involves a 60-year-old irate old man rocking in his armchair, I may point out that I'm actually a Silicon Valley software engineer who does mountain biking and autocross racing, if you must know.
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