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Monday, August 10, 2009
Toys

MoonBots Challenge Lets Kids Simulate Lunar X Prize Landing—With Lego

12:00AM Jack Loftus | A program called MoonBots will allow children to simulate the conditions of Google’s $US30 million Lunar X Prize—get rover to the moon, snap HD pics, kick ass—but turns up the quirkiness (and the cool factor) by incorporating Lego. More »
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Friday, November 21, 2008
Gadgets

X Prize’s Call for Votes in Next Big Crazy Green Idea Challenge

6:40AM Jesus Diaz | The X Prize Foundation is looking for a new challenge for their next Energy and Environment prize, and they want Gizmodo readers to vote on it. The X Prize is an educational nonprofit prize institute dedicated to create radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity, like when Burt Rutan built and flew the world’s first private spaceship to win the $US10 million Ansari X Prize. To propose the challenge for the next big crazy green idea, they have selected the best three from 133 videos: More »
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Friday, September 14, 2007
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Google Putting $US30 Million Into X PRIZE Robotics Moon Race

6:47AM Jason Chen | Google and X PRIZE are teaming up to offer $US30 million in cash rewards to companies and organisations that can land a robotic rover on the Moon and do a bunch of mission objectives. Their first prize is $US25M, second prize is $US5M, there’s an extra $US5M in bonus stuff to the losers. More »
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