2/4/2009

The ‘Pollen-Robo’ hoard patrols Japan with glowing LED eyes

The Japanese weather forecasting company Weathernews is deploying nationwide 500 of these “Pollen-Robo”—pollen counting robots to monitor to pollen levels as the allergy season begins in Japan.

The Weathernews will ask volunteer monitors to place the Pollen-Robo robots outside their dwelling to record in real-time the pollen, temperature, humidity and barometric pressure, which will then be relayed via the Internet back to the Skynet company. To a “benefit” to the volunteer monitors, the Terminators Pollen-Robo will light up through a range of five colors to indicate pollen levels and for added fun it will have two glowing LED eyes.

Visit the Weathernews’ Pollen Report.

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1. MARKed TRAIL Says:
   February 4th, 2009 at 7:47 pm

   Here’s an additional report from the Mainichi News about the alien robot hoard!
   

   (Mainichi) Feb. 3, 2009–
   ….The baby-faced instrument is a sphere 15 centimeters in diameter and has eyes and a nose. The instrument sucks in the same air people breathe and, depending on the amount of pollen in the air, its eyes turn white, blue, yellow or red. If the airborne pollen count exceeds 300 in a single day, the robot’s eyes will turn purple. The entire face of the robot also appears to be different colors depending on what angle it’s at….This year, the airborne pollen count in Eastern Japan is predicted to be somewhat high, as it was last year. Pollen counts are expected to be high in Western Japan, and low in the north of the country.

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