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a devastating story: industrial robot nearly kills swedish factory worker

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More pants-wetting robo-news here at technabob: A defective robot “generally used to lift heavy rocks” attacked and nearly killed a Swedish factory worker that was actually trying to repair the machine. According to The Local, the unnamed worker thought that he had cut off the machine’s power supply so he “approached the robot with no…

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May 1st, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: robots technology

lightpipe is a pipe-shaped light

Lightpipe

The Lightpipe is a supercool light that looks like an industrial pipe.

I love how they’ve photographed it next to “real” pipes, but on the flip side it makes it a bit difficult to imagine what it might look like, say, in one’s own living room. I mean, this would be a lot easier to…

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June 18th, 2008 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: karen m.

filed under: design strange + wonderful