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The snow-eating robot
This seems to be my day for cute gadgets. Behold Yuki-taro, the Japanese snowplow robot. It eats the snow and turns it into compressed blocks perfect for building igloos or snow forts with.
It would look great on, say, the Scarth Street Mall here in Regina.
(Via Gizmodo.)
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