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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Laptops banned in Bhutan assembly over gaming fears

    THIMPU, Bhutan
    Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:20am EDT
    A model poses with the new version of Asustek's low cost notebook ''Eee PC'' during the 2008 Computex exhibition in Taipei June 4, 2008. REUTERS/Nicky Loh

    THIMPU, Bhutan (Reuters) - The national assembly in newly democratic Bhutan has stopped lawmakers from bringing laptop computers into the house for fear they might spend their time playing computer games.

    "The members can be distracted playing games and viewing pictures," said Nima Tshering, speaker of the assembly.

    Some lawmakers in the Himalayan kingdom, which held its first ever general election in March, had argued that laptops were more convenient than carrying around bundles of papers.

    But house rules ban members from using electronic gadgets, eating and smoking.

    (Editing by Jonathan Allen and Alex Richardson)


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