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Daily Update for October 20, 2011
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Moonbot, DODOcase team up to offer custom iPad case for Morris Lessmore
In a very neat collaboration, Moonbot, the developers behind the book app The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, has teamed up with DODOcase to produce a custom book-bound iPad case that's based on the app. Morris Lessmore is a story of people who are devoted to books, and in turn the books are devoted back. The US$4.99 book app made its debut at the end of May and has had good reception since. The Morris Lessmore DODOcase is $64.99 and is handcrafted from red faux leather with Morris Lessmore's hat and cane mark on the cover and his "M" on the spine. The case is available now, and the book app recently updated to version 1.2 with a new puzzle. We have one of these cases on its way, and a full review of both the case and the book will be on TUAW soon.
Roony the prototype moon bot builds houses badly, is brothers with Jason Schwartzman
If this is all it takes to build a moon settlement then sign us up, we're completely qualified. To symbolize "humanity's first steps to inhabit space," some students from Malardalens University in Sweden have teamed up with artist Mikael Genberg to build a robot that can drop a small red cottage on the moon. The early prototype, dubbed Roony, is terrifying in its house-building flippancy (there's video of it after the break). It might be a bit of a rough start for the crew, but we can't fault them for vision: the "Luna Resort" project plans on being "one of the grandest art projects of art time" and hopes to inspire the rest of us boring humans to shoot other cool things into space -- like other humans.[Via Robot Living]
