Robots With Mobile Phone Brains to Battle at AppCon Games

Cell phones plus robots equals cellbots--didn't you know? The organizers of the upcoming app-centric developer conference AppCon 2010 know all about them, and just for kicks they're having a Cellbot Hackathon competition.

If you're still clueless about what a cellbot may be, then just think about what a modern smartphone really is: It's a self-powered portable device, brimming with electronics and sensors, often with Wi-Fi connectivity, and it comes with the ability to run user-coded apps...