RIMM's LEGO Machines Test Blackberry

LEGO - my - Crackberry writes "Matthias Wandel is an engineer at Research in Motion (RIMM), the company that makes the Blackberry. What did RIMM turn to for testing the antenna reception of one of its 900MHz devices? LEGO machines. Specifically a device made of LEGO that could rotate a Blackberry about its horizontal & vertical axis in a pre-defined pattern."

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Surprised?

[VirusEqualsVeryYes]

I'm not. It seems like a logical choice.

Want to test different angles precisely? Use some sort of robot.

Only going to build it once, and want it to be easy to build? Use Legos.

Need only rudimentary instructions (e.g. "rotate for 0.2 seconds") to rotate something on said robot? Use Mindstorms.

Nothing beats the satisfaction of soldering one's own circuit board and programming in C, but for something quick, easy to use, and powerful, Legos are the best solution.

Time to start troll-modding use of "Legos"?

[Andy_R]

At the risk of being modded down... surely by now everyone here ought to know that if you say "legos" not "lego" when talking about more than 1 lego brick, yet another barely-on-topic flame war about the pluralisation of Lego is inevitable? It happens every single time there is a Lego related story.

Is it time to start modding people who still use "legos" when they know what the result will be as trolls?