Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Christmas Gifts

Tiny remote-control robots play soccer under glass: "Tiny remote-control robots play soccer under glass

This looks like a lot more fun than air hockey: Four players use joysticks to control tiny wireless robots in MaruBot Football League, where each of the little guys seems to have a personality. Their LED eyes indicate happiness after a goal is scored, or sadness after a loss. Aww.

The game's makers also have a heart, claiming the MaruBot game inspires 'cooperation and partnership, minimizing individualism, isolation, violence of online games.' If a four-player game sounds like too much togetherness for you, there's also a two-player version. Now a big hit in Korea, the game could someday show up at an arcade near you.

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