Japanese Robots to Monitor Pollen Levels
Allergies suck -- so the always-resourceful Japanese have decided to sick robots on the problem. Tokyo-based weather forecasting company Weathernews, Inc. is apparently getting ready to install roughly 200 spherical robots across the country to monitor the pollen in the air. The shells of these bots are made of styrofoam, and a monitor inside does the dirty work. The eyes indicate the corresponding levels of pollen in white, blue, green, red and purple colors.
Two hundred hay fever-sufferers around the country will also send minute-by-minute reports via the Internet to Weathernews HQ, all of which will eventually add up to its pollen map for the season.
Robots and humans: working together for a less sneezy planet.
From GizmoWatch
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