Weekend Fun: Absolut Machines
Absolut Vodka is behind a new website that asks: In an Absolut world, could machines be creative? Musicians already know the answer, but this brand exercise fuses the worlds of robotics, music and the Internet to create a dynamic sonic environment that only a networked hyper-reality can provide… The DOS computer intro may be slightly off-target, but surrender to the retro interface, and prepare yourself to interact with either...
Weekend Fun: The BumBot
Although not politically correct, Rufus Terrill, owner of a downtown Atlanta bar named O’Terrills, has built a robot out to combat the drug dealers, petty thieves and vagrants who loiter around his establishment. The “BumBot,” as its has been affectionately named by his neighbors and customers, is basically a rubber-covered, meat smoker mounted onto a three-wheeled scooter and armed with a water cannon. Other...