Here's What's Awesome: Robots in the Ocean, Lightswitch Ghosts

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20,000 Robotic Submersibles Under the Sea
Did you know the government is funding the construction of an underwater robot armada? No, I am not a crackpot - and no, we don't need to alert an elite force of b-movie actors to stop them. Yes, these bots are subsidiaries to a larger "mothership", but they're tracking ocean currents, which could help track weather events, gauge environmental damage and even "swarm to disaster sites such as oil spills and airplane crashes." Still in the prototype stage, but stay tuned. [InventorSpot]

And if you leave it on all weekend... run
Want to teach kids to turn the lights off? A new "lightswitch ghost" attaches to the switch and changes facial expression and color as more energy is used - green and happy if the light's been on a little while, red and decidedly unhappy if it's been on for hours. [Inhabitat]

I believe Oli Lemieux can fly
And now, purely for fun, a video that's been making the rounds: a very acrobatic practice session with Cirque du Soleil's Oli Lemieux. The (unrelated?) music has some language not suitable for younger viewers, so just turn the sound down and consider that this guy has about the coolest job in the world:

[Neatorama]

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