20 Nov 09 Robot Fairy ‘Lovies’ in Shakespeare play

Check this out..

Gadgets are overwhelmingly concerned with immediacy and functionality, but a production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Texas A&M University reminds us that technology, when applied creatively, can be timeless and transcendent.

Amy Hopper, the play’s director, cast one autonomous, military-grade flying robot and five smaller remote control devices as fairies in Shakespeare’s comedy. “To see them flying, spinning and bouncing through the air just adds to the magic and mystery of the world Shakespeare created,” she explained.