While traditionally robot battles usually ended with one of the robots being destroyed, a new way has been created, leaving the robots in tact. The nBot robot several pieces of equipment, including an Eee PC netbook. The netbook is attached to the robot and the web cam streams the video of the battle to the control center. The control center is a PC and the stats of the battle are uploaded to a server.

Also on the robot is a movable arm, which is controlled by an Xbox 360 controller. On the end of the arm is a laser pointer. Aiming and firing is also controlled by the 360 controller. Last but not least, there is also a photo resistor on the robot. The aim is to use your laser to hit the photo resister on the other robot to decrease it’s health, which is tracked on the server.

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If Futurama’s Bender was a a flash drive, this is close to what we’d get. Apparently, if you combine the idea of netbook controlled robots and USB keys, you’d actually get something that doesn’t suck so bad. Enter this generic, silver-looking USB flash drive, which looks like it doesn’t have a care in the world. Other than having shiny metal assets, this flash drive can carry up to 4GB of user data. It costs just $25 a piece.

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