This article caught my eye - you just can't ignore lines such as "Hertz has constructed a three-wheeled robotic vehicle that lets a Madagascan hissing cockroach navigate a room while perched atop a ping-pong ball."
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68015,00.html?tw=rss.TOPIt'd make for a more interested party conversation than most PhDs, anyway.
