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I could not resist putting up this picture of my three little Hexbug critters together.

They are such mean things — they try avoiding one another but in the process, end up hitting one another anyway. Almost makes me want to write a program to see what a colony of a million of these would look like.

I was hacking the Lego Mindstorm vehicle demo when I saw a few other things lying around on my desk. I totally could not resist taking this picture.

So, I liked the little critters so much that I decided to go ahead and buy some more Hexbugs for myself.

The first one I had was Bravo and these are called Alpha and Delta. Since I have three, I hope to collect two more and have the entire collection. That way, I can probably make them fight amongst themselves.

(Does anyone else think that they are called Hexbugs but there are only five of them? They do have six legs, though.)

And for some reason, these things remind me of those Replicator bugs from Stargate SG-1.

Meet the newest member of our family! Lana just got me a new Hexbug toy as a random gift.

Hexbugs are fun little robotic bugs that can sense the surroundings through their antennas and find their way around. Not only that, but when you make a loud noise, they can hear and react to the noise. This lets you control where they go. Interesting little buggers!