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Morning time technology has advanced to only a limited degree. You can get woken up. You can even get a cup of tea or have the radio turned on by machine. What you can’t get are robots that will nip down to the shop, get all the ingredients you lack in your cupboards, and knock you together a hot breakfast. Hopefully though that will soon change.

This video shows two experimental robots collaborating to ‘shop’ for and cook a breakfast. Eggs Benedict for me butler-droid!

This video shows every flight that is made over 24 hours globally. Astonishing.

Unless you have been offline for the last month or so you are bound to have heard of Chatroulette. If not here is a quick lowdown: you go to the site and are connected to a chat with a random stranger on webcam (although there is a text only option). If you get bored with who you are talking to or they offend your sensibilities (this is quite likely) then you click ‘next’ and you are connected to somebody else. The possibilities are endless and you cannot control who you talk to or what they might say or do.

The video below was created by Casey Neistat and features a study he made of his experiences with Chatroulette. Other than a bit of bad language the video is safe to view at work whereas the actual Chatroulette site definitely is not. It is also worth checking out Casey’s other videos which are similarly entertaining.

chat roulette from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.