25 November 2008

The turk

Above, is a picture of a weird machine :) Its name is the Turk, this is why I find it more interesting. The inventor of the machine, presented this thing as an automated chess machine but, in fact there was somebody in the machine who was controlling the moves. So, they were cheating people.

So, the inventor became very famous, with this very succesfull machine :o)
(he is from austria)

By the way, there is an amazon service which is called also Mechanical Turk.
Discover it from here. A very good business idea.

For details, read it from wikipedia...

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