Geeky Bedtime Story Idea: Room Cleaning Musical Instrument

                All kids want to play an instrument.  Heck, they even want to play it fantastically well.  It is the nasty little thing called practice that gets in the way.  The kids that like to practice are few and far between.  In fact they are usually the kids that become good at the instrument.  This new instrument gives you a great reason to play.

              Once you start playing this instrument, nothing happens.  However, once you hit two correct notes in a row, it sends a radio signal out to everything in your room.  The better you play, the more your room cleans itself.   You eventually become the pied piper of clean up.

                Now in order to get a job as a janitor you can break your back the old fashioned way, or just become a very good trumpet, piano, or even tuba player. 

Brilliant Little Bedtime Conversation Starters

Which instrument would you play?

Which instrument would you want your little brother to play?

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Look What Marvel Just Put in Times Square New York!

So Marvel just opened up an exhibition in Downtown Manhattan.  Is it possibly because the Avengers tore through that place while trying to defend it?  Just kidding.  But seriously, Marvel has just opened this place that houses all of the movie props from one of the coolest superhero movies ever!  Go see All of the Avengers outfits in person.  Pretty snazzy.  My kids would love love love to check this out and would be an absolute must for them on a visit to New York now.  Love that it is presented as a S.H.I.E.L.D. outpost and training center rather than a movie prop shop.  So cool.  See the pics below!

Intel Will Have Us Printing Our Own Robot By the End of the Year! Not Kidding!!!

          Intel Just announced that it plans on us being able to print the Robot you see pictured above by the end of the year.  Now sure, they are only selling you the inside motherboard, wires and guts (which will cost about $1500).  But, you get to print the rest!  This may sound a little far fetched because most of us don't have 3D printers yet, but we aren't that far off.  More importantly our kids schools are even closer to being able to get funding to pull this off. 

          As a father of two 13 year old geek boys (they are ok with being geeks :) who are very excited to be starting into the world of robot creation through 4H this year (Who knew 4H was getting into robotics?).  I would be very supportive of them working with this new Intel robot.  Supposedly the robot will be open source to the internet community.  Meaning everyone around the world will be working to help this little bot perform more and more cool tasks.  I can only hope my kids will be the first to ride the wave of robotics I feel is on it's way!