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Friday, March 18, 2011

A different Leonardo.

—srikanth @ 23:59

The first picture is the controller and the second is the controlled. What is it?

PS - this is not some steampunk stuff. This is genuine!

Cracked by: Rogi, Raghuvansh, dineshk, Siddarth Pai, jowens and shrik

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Pictures of the Telekino. Invented by Italian engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo, this was one of the earliest ever demonstrations of a remote controlled device. It was a remote controlled boat :-)