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Robotic arm will Digg stories around the clock

Apparently the Japanese man who developed this robotic arm that uses a mouse and keyboard to anonymously send stories to Digg 24 hours a day was arrested by police in Nagasaki. As you can see by the video, there's a lot of tech involved to do this, while doing it in software couldn't possibly be as complex.

via Pink Tentacle

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Posted by: Oscar on July 7, 2008 at 6:42 AM

You're kidding, right?

This video is so phony on so many levels - do I even have to spell it out?

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Posted by: Darmichar on July 7, 2008 at 6:59 AM

Beautiful

I had to double check my RSS feed to make sure it hadn't switched Make with The Onion. April Fools in July? How does something like this even get posted?

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Posted by: ionymous on July 7, 2008 at 7:19 AM

huh?

Did the robot arm also post this article?

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Posted by: selfsilent on July 7, 2008 at 8:15 AM

For God sake

Scraping the barrel a bit Make:
Having to cover fake stories is poor.

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