YouTube user comicsacrifice built a simply NXT-driven machine that operates a game controller to restore his Skyrim video game character's health to maximum.

Don't you ever say again that LEGO® MINDSTORMS isn't useful in real life...

Now we need one that'll beat the whole game for you ;)

NXT Model of Curiosity

On Nov. 26 NASA has launched the new Mars rover Curiosity. The car-size robot spacecraft is the most sophisticated Mars space probe ever and expected to land on the Red Planet in August next year.
For the launch event, MCP Will Gorman created a NXT model of Curiosity that was on display yesterday inKennedy Space Center:

Queboid Shooters

 Mark Crosbie has built a robot called Queboid.

He has published building instructions now for a shooter version of it (below, there's a video of the Queboid shooter in action at WRO).