3/9/07 - Friday
AUSTIN, Texas (C|NET) -- Animal activists can rest easy. The antics--part of last year's South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) event--led only to bloodshed of the electronic kind: Make magazine editor Phil Torrone and DIY electronics pioneer Limor Fried had wirelessly run a tricked-out Roomba vacuum cleaner across Austin, Texas's famed Sixth Street as a late-night reenactment of the classic video game, Frogger.
No related arrests occurred that morning, but CNET News.com's story on the Roomba Frogger garnered reactions ranging from outrage that someone turned a public street into a video arcade, to "That's the coolest thing I ever heard."
NOTE: This is a real story.