I’m not what one may deem a “swag man.” I’ve recognized lots through the years – online game and comics reveals are a specific sizzling mattress. Individuals beg for additional t-shirts, fidget spinners and anything they will get their palms on. You see them wandering the halls of conference facilities, tote luggage spilling over with promotional gadgets.
Picture Credit: Brian Heater
I get it. I like free stuff, too. As a rule, nonetheless, if I do find yourself with some low-cost promotional factor, I’ll give it away most of the time. I stay in a one bed room in New York, the place the Collyer Brothers and Gray Gardens loom giant. This, nonetheless, is my one exception in the intervening time. I at the moment have a small assortment of robotic stress balls (above). It’s a modest assortment at three – Amazon, Hai and Locus – however there’s one thing a few tiny, colourful tackle an enormous industrial robotic that warms my coronary heart.
However as robotic swag goes it’s onerous to beat these two Lego kits I put collectively over lunch in the present day. If there’s a greater solution to get somebody to purchase a really expense robotic (Spot, as an illustration, is a cool $75,000), I haven’t seen it. Boston Dynamics has been utilizing these to assist promote Spot (46 items) and Stretch (44 items), however good luck getting a set should you’re not at the moment available in the market for an industrial robotic (I is likely to be, however once more, small condo).
For everybody else, there a few unofficial Boston Dynamics-inspired tasks over on on the LEGO website to take a look at, together with this 1:4 scale motorized model of Spot.
