Anybody who's played through the mind-bendingly brilliant, first-person puzzle game Portal came to a final confrontation with the devious AI computer who taunted you throughout your tasks, GlaDOS. If you haven't played, stop whatever you are doing and buy it, steal it or otherwise get your hands on it.
OK, now that that's out of the way: The Japanese (of-freaking-course) have invented a pollen-monitoring robot (pictured left) that bears a striking resemblance to your final enemy in the game. 200 of these ball-headed 'Pollen Robots' will hang outside volunteers' homes in Tokyo, monitoring pollen levels and sending the data back to headquarters of the Weathernews, Inc., where an online pollen map can notify hay fever sufferers of the most affected areas in town. Creepiest of all, a pair of eyes will glow white, blue, green, red or purple to indicate the level of Japanese cedar and cypress pollen in the air.
Weathernews is expecting higher-than-average pollen levels this season, but you know what they're not expecting? A world takeover by their hyper-intelligent, creepy-eyed, pollen-sensing robots. Weathernews sounds creepy enough, and now they had to go and kill us all.
This is how the world will end, and this time there won't be any cake.
Via Geekologie
Previously:
A prototype of the Jetson's robot Rosie has arrived and her name is Twendy-One
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