Happy New Year! And what better way to start the new year than with one of my favourite things….robots! Someone has modded an iRobot create by adding a dot-matrix printer to blast talcum powder onto the pavement in the pattern of your choice … which can then be controlled wirelessly.

Not quite as practical or environmentally-friendly as the clean ads that SAS developed, and probably not likely to be adopted on a mass scale, but it uses freakin’ robots to make street art! Which qualifies it as pretty bloody cool in my book at any rate.

[Read more about the mod at Engadget]