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One of our favorite blogs in the galaxy, Technovelgy, has a great post about how a new bot powered by a dead rat heart (yes, it freaking exists, people) was conceived in science fiction. In fact, Jack Vance wrote about this bizarro device back in the 1960s novel The Last Castle. Check out the device and its fictional precursor. [Technovelgy]
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Jan 23, 2008 1:45 PM
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