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O’Reilly Radar: “Map/Territory: Augmented Reality Without the Phone” “The world will become our display. As a stopgap we are busily turning our phones into the lens through which we view floating tweets and wikipedia entries. However designers like Timo Arnall are starting to explore how we will interact with an augmented world when we are able to move past the iPhone crutch.”

Morning Sun: “Pitsco robots designed to take over education” “TETRIX, a metal building system with parts made of heavy-duty aircraft-grade aluminum, is designed to work with the LEGO MINDSTORMS robotics system and is the newest member to join the LEGO Education robotics continuum. Tony Allen, TETRIX program manager, explained that the LEGO system consists of plastic parts. ‘This is the first time that LEGO has allowed a metal component to attach to their plastic base,’ he said.”

Wired: “Real-Life Decepticons: Robots Learn to Cheat.” “In an experiment that sounds like a deleted scene from one of the Terminator movies, robots with artificial animal-inspired brains quickly evolved to deceive one another. The robots — soccer ball-sized assemblages of wheels, sensors and flashing light signals, coordinated by a digital neural network — were placed by their designers in an arena, with paper discs signifying “food” and “poison” at opposite ends. Finding and staying beside the food earned the robots points.”