Hosting a barbecue is a sure-fire way to ensure inclement weather, so if the sun does make an appearance it's best to have your outdoor grilling machine all ready to go.
It's all well and good capturing your still life shennanigans on a decent megapixel mobile or using a half-decent digital camera - but when it comes to moving footage the former is woefully underpowered and the latter leaves much room for improvement.
We've had a longstanding fascination with robots - early science fiction films viewed automatons with a degree of suspicion but they were given human emotions and foibles in the Star Wars films.