Rocketboom Tech correspondent Ellie Rountree talks about the advancement of home robots from 1982 to today. Story links: NYT: Planning Domesticated Robots, Android Amusement Corp, Boys and Robots Will Be Boys, Tomy Omnibot 5402 From 1984 in Action!, Omnibot 5402/TR5000 By Tomy, Talking Robie 2, Furby Commercial 2000-Ain’t No Furby Like Mine, Personal Robots CYE, Cye Pictures, First Generation Roomba Commercial, Shopsweeping, Floorwashing, Guttercleaning, Robomow, Paradise Robotics Lawnbott Evolution LB3210, Husqvarna AutoMower at work, RIBA, CMU, Personal Robotics in Pittsburgh, Autonomous Manipulation (IRP2008)

This episode was created in collaboration with Intel!

story links: Typhoon Ondoy, Markina River Raging By, Typhoon Ondoy September 26, 2009, MODIS Rapid Response System, Quake, tsunami near American Samoa kills at least 22, LA lifeguards clear beaches, Indonesians shaken and struggling after devastating earthquake, Officials: 3,000 People Trapped due to Indonesian Quake, Second earthquake hits stricken Sumatra, Mudslides Bury Villages in Rural Sumatra Valley, Rescuers head for Indonesia, UN waits for official food request, Obama offers support for Samoa, Indonesia, Help for Typhoon Ondoy Victims, Why is Ondoy popular right now?, Why is Indonesia popular right now?, Donate to help children in the Philippines, Help the Philippines Weather the Storm, Red Cross

Expedition 21/Space Flight Participant Soyuz Docking to International Space Station, NASA’s LCROSS CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, Human Population Calculator, List of countries by population, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Unfair Robot Fight, Original Winnie-the-Pooh Drawings, Kangaroo, New friend joins Winnie-the-Pooh

The Rocketboom Institute for Internet Studies gets down. Geddan quartet, Nico Nico Douga, Volume chaos GoldenEye 007, Goldeneye 007 - Gets down, strange mario 64 shindou edition glitch otherwise known as cartridge tilting, Super Mario Clouds, Carnival Chaos Geddan GoldenEye, Carnival Chaos Geddan GoldenEye, Geddan, GET DOWN on top of Toilet?!, Nitori gets down, Kannagi Geddan, Death Note Get Down, Basic Geddan, Kimoto Geddan, crazy japanese poster, Anime Geddan, YouTube Search for Geddan, Kiko gets down in supermarket, TAILS Gets Down, Super Mario Gets Down, Mario gets down before Luigi, Sonic the Hedgehog Gets Down, WEEGEE Gets Down, Ronald McDonald, Joker Gets Down!, Kim Jung Il version, Mefuki Get Down, Get Down with Sushi!, KAITO, LLAMAS!, Compilation time!?!, Backstreetboys “GET DOWN”

Humanwire correspondent Valentina Canavesio reports on Luis Soriano Bohorquez who created the Biblioburro, or Library Donkey, in an effort to bring books and the gift of reading to the children in his community of La Gloria, Colombia.

Rocketboom’s Ella Morton meets up with Oxfam’s Human Countdown, President Obama, and the Yes Men during Climate Week NYC. Yes Men arrest footage provided by Brandon Jourdan.

story links: India’s mission to moon, India’s lunar mission finds evidence of water on the Moon, Moon Mineralogy Mapper…Reveal Water Molecules on Lunar Surface, Moon Water Found, Raises Questions About Origin Theory, Ice on Moon, No duh: Surgery success is not linked to phases of the moon, Mark Jenkins’ “Sleepers” Photos 1, 2, 3, Wooster Collective, 36 Skaters Make Downhill Neon Video Game w/ Freebords, Paperboy in real life, Fanged Frog and Other Bizarre Species Discovered, Fabulous furry pterosaur unearthed in China, Animals That Can Count Music: Podington Bear’s “Pythagorean Theorem”, Aaron Dunn’s “Sonata 1″

You can’t get away from the internet.

Molly is ringside for the Futura vs Verdana IKEA Smackdown. story links: The Font War: Ikea Fans Fume over Verdana, IKEA 2009 Catalog, IKEA 2010 Catalog, Twitter Rants 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, IKEA Petition, Stop IKEA going Verdana FB Group, Futura, Verdana, Paul Renner and Futura, Matthew Carter, Windows 95 Plus, MyFonts Futura, Eyes Wide Shut, Volkswagen Ad, The story of classic font Futura, Absolut Vodka Ad, Domino’s Pizza, Red Bull, Apollo 11 Plaque, Diacritical Mark, Precomposed Character, Glyph

Humanwire correspondent Ruud Elmendorp reports on the adaptation of the XO laptop in Kenya.

Report: 35 million-plus worldwide have dementia, NASA launches rocket, dozens report strange lights, Rocket launch prompts calls of strange lights in sky, Black Brant, Milan Happy Clouds by Stuart Semple, Is Condensed Water the Salvation for Developing Countries?, DewPointe by AWS, Scanning Dead Salmon in fMRI Machine Highlights Risk of Red Herrings (via Slashdot), The Mashmallow Test, Glitch: Designing Imperfection

Things Salesmen Hear, Most Likely Side for a Piece of Toast to Land, Pie I’ve Eaten, Jay Z, Scripting a PC, Planck First Light Yields Promising Results, Space Doesn’t Really Look Like That, Google Releases a Nuke, Google to Apple: You Lie, Apple Contradicts Google, Letter to FCC, Google vs. Apple, Why Didn’t Google Throw Apple Under the Bus, What Would Elmo Do, Slo Mo Sneezing. Music from: Podington Bear

Molly is officially back at Rocketboom and is excited to report the daily news starting Monday! Send us your interesting and cool news stories at news@rocketboom.com

Rocketboom’s Humanwire correspondent Cheikh Seck reports on illegal immigration from Senegal to Spain. Story links: VOA, IOM

Rocketboom’s Ella Morton jumps aboard the “Half Moon“, a replica of the Dutch ship sailed by Henry Hudson in 1609. story links: New Netherlands, Henry Hudson, Half Moon 1, 2, 3, Amsterdam, Delaware Indians, Hudson River, music from Gounod.

Rocketboom’s Ellie Rountree checks out New York City’s Twestival held at Brooklyn Bowl, which raised money for local charity Camp Interactive. story links: Sound effects, Twestival screen captures 1, 2

Rocketboom captures moments from this morning’s September 11th commemoration at Zuccotti Park near the World Trade Center site in New York City.

Rocketboom’s Ella Morton tours the Waterpod, a sustainable eco-barge floating around NYC.

Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp reports on solar powered cell phones being sold in Kenya.

Rocketboom Tech’s Ellie Rountree talks about the best Bond gadgets from the last 50 years.

This episode was created in collaboration with Intel!

“Blue Pi” by Digital Juice, wires, BMW 750i, boombox, ericsson, FCC, 1984 cell phone, safecracker, lockmasters, laser induced, ionatron, ghetto blaster, mobile phone gun, abc news, Tomorrow Never Dies, JD Films, Top Gear, Lewis Hamilton, so you can keep an eye on me, digital angel, wired,

Rocketboom’s field correspondent Ella Morton discovers the dangers of window washing. Niagara Falls In A Raft , Simons Windows, one seats,

The Rocketboom Institute for Internet Studies explores the meme of David After Dentist.David After Dentist, Itstheinterweb, Stonerforums, MrkNchls, Electric Method Remix, Animated, David After the Divorce, David After Drugs, Flippy After David After Dentist, Chad After Dentist, Blog, Sun Times, Kids Say the Darndest Things, AFV Kids, Art Linkletter, Charlie bit my finger - again!, Charlie Bit me - Waves, David Call out Christian Bale, David Store, Donation, D.A.D Charity Event, Blame Drews Cancer, TODAY Show

A Rocketboom Encore presentation. adam quirk and wreck & salvage adapt franz kafka’s metamorphosis

Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp explores the new Swahili video game that encourages slum survival skills in Kenya.

Molly talks about turning digital things into tangible art.