Sitting on the southern part of Roosevelt Island—on the East River, appropriately right in front of the United Nations' HQ building—the farm skyscraper is based on the shape of a dragonfly's wings. It extends 132 floors and 600 meters up in the air, totalling an area of 360,000 square meters.

Designed by Vincent Callebaut Architectures, the Dragonfly Vertical Farm is designed to produce fruits, vegetables, grains, meat, and dairy. It will also include public spaces, like gardens, a marina, markets, and a public "kitchen" area, so people can enjoy the natural environments—and watch the animals as they get ready to first take over Manhattan, and then take over Berlin.

This may result in the most expensive milk and bacon in the planet, which is probably why it is never going to be built. Although I secretly hope it does, so New York starts looking like Caprica City already. [Design Boom]

For now, the seemingly innocuous bugs (get it? double entendre), which look a little like an ultra-low tech version of the bat bot, will make their way around Seoul and other parts of South Korea, and according to Newlaunches, will be in Tokyo soon. There's even a butterfly. How can a gentle butterfly turn you over to the cops for selling pot? There's no way that would happen!

[DelFly via IEEE Spectrum Blog] Thanks, Erico!

After investigating the story printed in the local Manhasset Press newspaper, WowWee's Customer Service Department determined that it has received 45 different calls over the past 2 months about hawks and other birds of prey swooping down and snatching consumers' FlyTech Dragonfly out of the air.

Interesting—although we probably should have seen this coming after the epic battle between the Dragonfly and Mark Wilson's cat. Look out WowWee. The animal kingdom is waging war against you and your products. [WowWee]

So when I received my review unit Wow Wee/Flytech R/C Dragonfly, I knew just who to test it on. Surely Anya (my cat) would be leaping through the air, clawing with maximum kitten power to destroy this home intruder. The subtle flapping of wings would be too much for her to resist, and besides, the unit comes with a replacement pair.

So what happened?

As for the Dragonfly, in the five minutes I've spent with my unit (that came out wrong but I refuse to rephrase myself), I haven't gotten it to fly properly. Given other reviews out there, I'm sure it's user error. But also given that I was once a strong R/C car enthusiast, I'm shocked at my ineptitude.

And cool feature to note: the Dragonfly is charged directly from the remote control in about 20 minutes for a reported 7 minutes of flight. It's a good idea, be it presumably heavy on AA usage. – Mark Wilson

For Valentines, you can even load up a ring on it and ram it into your girlfriend's head as a romantic way of proposing. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Radioshack via Robots Rule via Slashgear]

Now if only that office were full of jaded employees with mediocre health benefits, we'd really have something to watch. – Mark Wilson

Dragonfly Robot [neatorama]

The palm-sized Dragonfly plugs directly into the remote for charging, its bulbous eyes glowing as the juice is applied. The wee flying machine, created by Robosapien manufacturer Wow Wee, just received FCC approval, but no pricing or availability information was forthcoming. Too bad; it's probably too late for Christmas. – Charlie White

Wow Wee Readying Flying Toy Bug [Gearlog, via ubergizmo]