LEVIATHAN

Lovers of Entertainment featuring Various Insurrections of the Abyss Told as Hydrographic Adventure Narratives

Sunday, April 22, 2007

don't tease the crocodiles!

trust me, just don't.

Monday, April 02, 2007

The Japanese are all a-quiver

I was in Austin on the weekend, and I was lucky enough to inspect a "robot jellyfish aquarium" up-close at a restaurant. Apparently I'm about 6 years late on this "craze," which Wired first reported on in 2001. The "robots" I saw in Austin were far less advanced than the machine pictured -- which suggests that in this post-9-11 climate a $50 robot jellyfish can't survive against a tank full of cheap plastic toys.

Indeed, some robot jellyfish are being forced out of tank and into the workforce. From swimming gently all day, to fighting off burglars -- such is the life of the robot jellyfish. Not to worry -- this "interior object" still gets to "lounge about and be 'beautiful'."