Got a call from my roommate lisa this morning to go visit Showcase for Limits of Human-Machine Interaction at Sony Campus. Eric Paulos from UCBerkeley had a very cool presentation regarding his projects, I liked the Space Browsing helium blimp which was really cool and the world's first tele-robot whose concept was a robot controlled remotely, transmitting information gathered through a microphone and a camera to the one who was controlling it and giving the controller's basic features [e.g. sound, video] to the other party through the robot itself. The show was awesome, however, we got there an hour late and apparently missed half of the speeches. At the end, the cool show of two remotely controlled robots was performed on the campus. That was a combination of very simple technology and using salvaged stuff to make a working machine but it wasn't obeying some of the simple rules of "machines" such as being non-intrusive and non-disruptive. The funny thing happend at the end was the machine who was attacking the other one was caught up by a small still lamp (to my opinion, as the symbol of a peaceful object) and demolished. Quote of the night would be 'I have learned to live marginal and I like it' by Kevin Binkret, the SF based inventor, machinist, pyro-expressionist who talked about his works as the last lecturer. Additional information can be found at srl.org.