SKIRMISHER

Pottery, knitting, and all that shit is not only for the wuss, but also for the hopelessly behind the times. These days, you don’t make clay pitchers or plates. You make robots. Out of the box.

Cool, isn’t it?

Take PicoCricket Kit, for instance. It looks like your ordinary box of plastic and styrofoam. But don’t be fooled: the kit includes electronic sensors, cables, sound boxes, motors, and a palm-size, battery-powered programmable computer.

One of the PicoCricket guides, for instance, instructs users on how to turn a birthday cake made mostly of felt, cardboard and drinking straws into an ingeniously interactive one, a cake that can be programmed to shut off the lights in its electrical candles when someone blows on them.

What I’m interested, though, is a kit that let’s me create a girl based on my wishlist, somebody like Stacy Keibler. Yeah, lots of her. Uhmmm, wait, let me wipe off my drool…

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