A big Thank You goes out to Antony Funnell and the fine folks at Australia Broadcasting Corporation’s radio show Future Tense.

They interviewed me for their show a couple weeks ago and it was aired nationally in Australia today.  During the interview we talk about the Useless Machine, it’s history, and it’s meme-like properties.

Here’s the link:  ABC’s Future Tense, Episode 42.  The interview appears near the end of the episode, around 23 minutes in but they start the show off with a teaser about the Machine.

I recommend that you listen to the whole episode because the first two topics they cover are very interesting:

We have ‘fair trade’ coffee and ‘fair trade’ bananas, so why not a ‘fair trade’ mobile phone? Bas Van Abel and his Amsterdam-based colleagues are busy perfecting a cell phone that isn’t made by exploited labourers. We also explore how and why new technologies are helping to reshape our language with Tom Chatfield, author of a new book called ‘Netymology’.

Nuno José Almeida’s Useless Robot

Watch this video on YouTube.

YouTube Video Link

Thanks Jian!


And thanks to Erin RobotGrrl for the heads-up!