October 10, 2000
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Always the cheerleader for resuscitating technology that has been relegated into the realm of perceived obsolescence, I’ve found another cause. It’s time grab that old Palm Pilot that’s been rattling around in the back of your desk drawer and convert it into the autonomous robot buddy you’ve always wanted. Of course, the crack team of vociferous sour-pusses over at Slashdot have already found a thread of reasons why you shouldn’t use a Palm as a robotic controller, but who the hell cares. This is cool stuff. Why give your four year old nephew that tired PDA just to see him throw it down the basement stairs, when you could program it to search for the stair well via pattern recognition, travel across the room to the doorway, calculate an efficient trajectory, and then throw itself down the steps.
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