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A new toy for the TSA? Oh what fun they could have with THIS one. Meet Clothbot.
Chinese roboticists have built a small, fabric-clutching robot that pulls itself up pants and shirts by creating wrinkles with its pair of gripper wheels, according to the IEEE Spectrum Automaton blog.
Video of the little bot doing its thing indicates that this is probably pretty unpleasant for the climbee.
The researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese University of Hong Kong who developed Clothbot figure it might make a nice toy or even become part of a “movable phone on our shoulder which frees human hands” —presumably not to simply swat the thing off when it starts creeping around all over our clothes.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404707,00.asp,
Many gamers have complained about Diablo III’s always-online design, and there have been tons of reports of gamers not able to log into Battle.net to play the game. Blizzard has even apologized for the issues. But with one exception, I haven’t had that problem.
I’ve (Will Greenwald) been playing Diablo III for the last few days, and so far my only problem in connecting to the servers happened around 3 a.m., the Tuesday morning when the servers came alive and everyone who pre-loaded the game rushed to start playing.
Since then, I’ve been able to play Diablo III in the morning, in the evening, and during peak hours with no issues.
I understand if this sounds like gloating. It’s not. It’s much worse. It’s saying these server issues will pass, everyone who bought Diablo III will be able to play it reliably in the near future, and this hiccup will be relatively forgotten, like so many hiccups with the launches of big games.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404565,00.asp
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