Gadget Freak

While journalism students complain about the gruelling six-hour study week (I have no idea what you’re talking about – Ed.), their electrical engineering counterparts are off developing technology that could one day help to save many lives.

Future electrical engineers at Dalhousie University have been creating robots as classroom assignments that run on similar – albeit much less advanced – technology to the Mars Rover from a few years back.

And the applications could one day see these robots step in to do jobs in medicine and industry that would be too hazardous for human beings to carry out. These feats of electrical engineering could be used to clean out boiler pipes, clean out oil storage tanks and carry out land-mine detection as the robots are designed to make their own way through a path without human supervision via a remote control.

Makes the good old journalism degree pale in comparison, don’t you think? (We’ve had quite enough of your journalist-bashing, thank you very much – Ed.)