Robo arm Diggs without complaining, smells better than your brother

Look, this top ten celebrity child-rearing tips list of ours is gonna make it to the top, we just know it, and we're tired of hitting up family members to get stories out of the single digits. Luckily there's a better way. The robotic Digg arm -- which appears to be slightly or entirely fake -- refreshes a page, detects Digg badges on the screen, and then moves the cursor over them to "manually" Digg the stories. Apparently the bot can Digg 1500 stories a day, but we're gonna need some more evidence than this joke vid (embedded after the break) to be convinced of this bot's actual, welcomed existence.

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[EricR Posted Jul 7th 2008 11:19AM]

Sure would have been more interesting if he didn't talk in monotone.

[OneLove Posted Jul 7th 2008 12:36PM]

wah? (he's been watching too much ghost in a shell)

[Nabeel Posted Jul 8th 2008 8:14PM]

I am going to go ahead and call this one a fake; see at 1:37

If anyone wanted to constantly digg stuff, they could have just made a mod/plugin/MACRO for their browser/OS to do a better job than this, not use this contraption.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 7th 2008 11:21AM]

I'm digging the cooling fan..

[horizontaleight Posted Jul 7th 2008 11:21AM]

A worthy explanation as to why digg is garbage.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 7th 2008 11:26AM]

I agree, digg is still ok, but it has fallen far from the radar in terms of neat tech stories it once had. Its the classic case of media brainwashing, same thing that happened to the once, MTV, which, wait for the gasp!, played music on TV.

To this contraption? I dont believe it is real. It would have to have some pretty neat detection software to know WHERE the digg tag is on the screen, sure a robot can move a mouse, but I doubt this one is as real as it claims to be...

[matthewf01 Posted Jul 7th 2008 3:10PM]

buried

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 7th 2008 11:26AM]

How does it know which articles to digg? Or does it blindly digg all?

[maty Posted Jul 7th 2008 11:27AM]

Maybe the author of this fake video just wants more diggs himself? o_O

[Kamokazi Posted Jul 7th 2008 11:34AM]

Maybe he should spend more time working on the airflow in his case so he doesn't have to open the side panel and keep a fan on it.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 7th 2008 11:59AM]

Only 12 year old kids use Digg.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 7th 2008 12:55PM]

that's funny 'cause i've got one of those arms, and i made it when i was 10

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 7th 2008 12:09PM]

Maybe he can use some of his mad robotic-building skills to install a cooling fan on his motherboard.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 7th 2008 1:21PM]

According to the vid, the developer was arrested for this. Which makes perfect sense, as everyone knows how police are just all over this type of horrendous criminal act.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 7th 2008 1:34PM]

Will it blend?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 7th 2008 5:49PM]

no, but i am sure it'd take 5 minutess to press the 'start' button on the blender...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 7th 2008 1:40PM]

haha, but not bett than my 'sister'...ya, nobody really uses digg...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 7th 2008 1:52PM]

buried...no mention of its abilities to play Doom, blend, post "i see what you did there," or avoid digging every flickr link posted.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 7th 2008 2:57PM]

Why not have the keyboard functions incorporated in the robot? that moving around seems unnecessary... I guess this is fake anyways.

You can find more info about robots doing cool stuff at http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=526&doc_id=155718&f_src=flffour

[mcarage Posted Jul 7th 2008 3:00PM]

Probably leaves better comments than the average digger as well. Plus it might actually be interested in tech stories unlike the current crowd there.

[JerseyBricklayer Posted Jul 7th 2008 4:54PM]

So this is how Mr.BabyMan does it !

[JerseyBricklayer Posted Jul 7th 2008 4:55PM]

So this is how Mr.BabyMan does it !

[victorstuber Posted Jul 7th 2008 7:58PM]

ok, if it was real, the arm wouldnt be trying to find the down arrow by re adjusting itself 20 times. it would have been programed into the software to perfectly land on it. ie: the guy is controlling it

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 7th 2008 10:41PM]

Or the keyboard would be programed into the acutal robot it's self. So all the robot would be doing is looking at the screen.

But this is fake it says at the end. Entertainment purpose only.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 7th 2008 5:50PM]

What's the deal with it linking to a pornstar video at the end?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 9th 2008 4:38PM]

I told them to use Greasemonkey instead, but they wouldn't listen...