NPR : The Orb, Keeping a Robotic Eye Out for Trouble
Heard on NPR this weekend, a swedish company has invented a robotic ball. What I immediately thought of, as did Scott Simon, the NPR host, was the deadly globular ball Rover, from the Prisoner series by Patrick McGoohan.
Funny enough, Nils Hulth, the CEO of Rotundus, had never seen the show and had no idea what the NPR host was talking about. Still, it was cute to hear NPR play a few seconds of the Prisoner theme at the end of the story.