Sword-weilding Wii-controlled robot!

This is just too cool. These guys own an industrial robot. And a Wii. So they decide to have some fun and program it to work with a tennis game. The video shows the robot hitting a tennis ball, and apparently they bopped the video camera operator!

But the coolness begins when they mount a sword in the robot's claws/grasper/whatever! They actually have it thrust!

The link includes a YouTube video.

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=927#wiibot

And the inevitable Slashdot thread: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/04/0643223

You have an iPod and a Windows PC? Consider holding off upgrading to Vista

Apparently there have been some corruption problems where the iPod just doesn't work very well afterwards. Some people have no problems, some do. Regardless, Apple is encouraging iPod owners to hold off until they come out with the new version of iTunes.

http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/03/1852245