> it seems to me that the "relax labs" ought to be more corporate or at least corporate-sponsored Oh yes, I completely agree on that. I've worked at one of the

> it seems to me that the "relax labs" ought to be more corporate or at least corporate-sponsored Oh yes, I completely agree on that. I've worked at one of these places, and what they made was exactly the definition of "cool gadgets". To my eyes, it wasn't research, it was pure development. Stuff like this should be funded by a company to build a product, not by universities. I can't go too much in the details, but one of the things they built was a blogging robot. It has a PDA and blogs your location for some reason...