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What was that you said about multi-thousand dollar sex dolls?

http://www.realdoll.com/
and a sample of these 5000$ + dolls http://www.realdoll.com/dpcs64/leah/Leah5.JPG

http://www.realdoll.com/
and a sample of these 5000$ + dolls http://www.realdoll.com/dpcs64/leah/Leah5.JPG

Mostly the thing to look for is failure to reciprocate communication. Failure to develop an interactive verification loop that shows the girl is real, but not only real but is not someone just looking for money. Its not at all out of range to use an AI program assisted by real persons monitoring and dealing with little glitches personally. Also falling in love to quickly and asking for money are good indications of a scam. For Americans or non-russian speaking males, be careful of the language barrier excuse.

This is not to say there are not genuine russian girls looking for genuine relationships, but that the scams make it difficult to tell the difference.
Even we Americans have online dating and sex buddy opportunities that are real.

Sites like Bride.ru may very well have genuinely interested in relationship girls, but even they warn you of other possible motives.
There are other sites that don't cost you as much just for communication access. I suspect the russian mafia has a hand in some of these scams as organized distribution of such programs
only make since in a business perspective.

Posting this anon. as I can speak with some experience. Seems an American based dating service either had 1 russian email gathering "girl" inserted as an email collection point which was then sent into the AI network from which numerious girls (ai instances with custom stories to tell) would then email you at the dating service address. By my responding and eventually recognizing a common pattern between over half a dozen girls I concluded it was an AI program. Or in writing to an American girl I forgot to uncheckmark the option of being promoted by their affiliates. I also realized real people were maintaining the operations of the systems.

What makes this scam work but not be Turing compatible is the emotional desire of the lonely male to overlook the obvious over the possibility of getting it on with a attractive female or beating out their loneliness. For some the Illusion is better than nothing. But to pass the turing test, emotions are suppressed. Needless to say, this AI program failed the turing test.

We have plenty artificially intelligent real people, it should be easy to fool them. Amazing we try so hard to make artificially intelligent machines. But then I suppose that would be a step in satisifying the real people that are artificial. We certainly can create the sexy bodies to put the AI into.

There are possible legit benefits to be had out of all of this. Medical, physical and psychological relationship issues could be dealt with productively with such technology.
Virtual reality applications are being used in the treatment of quite a number of physical and psychological matters. So although this current usage of pseudo relationship programs is to scam people out of money, this is certainly a stage that needs to be passed through and is likely to have motive enough to improve to a more convincing state. Probably a lot better than any legit funded effort as the feedback is certainly greater.

OTOH, from TFA, "....the robot did in fact calm down and was soon walking slowly around my office and (later) my home and crying out for food or attention." I hope it also comes with an off switch.

There is RealDoll.

Those were invented years ago man

umm, no. the first time that happened was when the doll was invented, and it's been going on ever since.

Well it doesnt have to be that nerd r2d2 robot, it could be like this: http://www.realdoll.com/sample13.asp/ So when you are angry because your wife cheat on you, this robot is going to say shut up! and it will start to ... (ummm well put your best fantasy here)

I guess if your sexual interests tend towards bestiality and furries that may be a good option, but for most undersexed slashdotters I think a real doll would be a better bet.

http://www.realdoll.com/studio.asp
http://www.realdoll.com/dpcs64/britney/britney015.jpg

I guess if your sexual interests tend towards bestiality and furries that may be a good option, but for most undersexed slashdotters I think a real doll would be a better bet.

http://www.realdoll.com/studio.asp
http://www.realdoll.com/dpcs64/britney/britney015.jpg

You said it, now where the hell am I gonna get a microwave big enough for my RealDoll?!

Scrll down a bit from NSFW: "You can soak REALDOLL in a hot bath, or put her under an electric blanket to give it lifelike body heat. REALDOLL's silicone flesh retains heat very efficiently.". Glad I could help.

while they silcone forms may be superior
http://realdoll.com/faq.asp#silicone
they aren't life!

We should send this; http://www.realdoll.com/

Right here...

Warning, if you are at work, please do NOT follow this link, but if you are at a safe place where you can see a bit of porn, this is a link to a lifelike silicone doll: www.realdoll.com .

Not that I am trying to post porn on Slashdot, but a link to what kind of technology is available to make a lifelike human form suitable for prostheses.

I can imagine the silicone covering fluidic muscles which would look very lifelike, even warm to the touch, and feel just like real muscles. The fluid bladder comprising the muscle belly could be made in any shape so that the aesthetics of how the muscle appears as it is flexed could be tailored to match the natural muscle.

One could have the appearance of a bodybuilder, or a fashion model, or whatever.

I can not see a fluidic muscle being very strong, but in the absence of natural muscle, anything is more useful than nothing. It will get your hand up to your mouth to feed yourself, comb your hair, or do your buttons, although I doubt it would be useful for heavier work.

The bicep-tricep pair would operate as opposing muscle/fluid reservoir so that in order to bend the arm, fluid is pumped from one bladder to the other. The forearm could be full of small opposing bladders to control the fingers, all run from a small microcontroller and power source. From the outside, it would appear just as muscle appears, even bulging when flexed just like real muscle.

It sounds like a great fun thing to work on, knowing that I would be creating something someone actually needs.

And yet no one will recall the real doll for breaking hearts *sob*

Ironically enough, one of the contributing factors to the original crusades was an excess of young men in western Europe, and a desire by the ruling class to direct the energies of these young men toward a productive use.

Gives a whole new meaning to "make love, not war."

Which is why the world needs more porn.

In a world where unfettered access to porn exists, young men have little time for war.

Like I said in another thread.... If every boy in the world was given a Real Doll for their 16th birthday, there'd be no war.

It would also solve the population problem.

I'm only half-kidding.

At least give every 16 to 35 year old male unfettered access to porn. Hell, give every 16 to 99 year old male the porn.

Might keep world leaders busy, and they wouldn't worry about starting wars in the middle east to compensate for having a small penis (*cough* Bush and Cheney *cough*).

Real Doll

My bad.

> We have ideals. People live in pursuit of dreams...We give up sex for them sometimes!

If a real woman is too much trouble, do yourself a favor and get one of these!

Better be something better than blow up.... http://realdoll.com/ Where she might help you even get out of a ticket if caught, in exchange for a favor...

Man... You need an upgrade. http://www.realdoll.com/

what does having a (basically) fake boob to play with change how you look at breast cancer

I say that's a good topic for a future askslasdot feature with the people over at realdoll

The Sandia / Cray Red Storm super computer crammed inside of a Real Doll.

I build myself a top of the line machine about once a year, so I already have my "dream machine". But the above is a true dream machine. Especially if it washed your dishes, cooked your meals and ran linux.

People who get hard-ons for Linux don't know where they're actually supposed to put their penises.

Well, the PCI slot is a bit narrow one way, too wide in the other and it feels all burny when you turn the computer on. USB/Network ports are too small. Firewire sounds pretty good....it's not as it turns out.

A little trial and error later, I ordered one of these babys and after a few mods involving Lego Mindsprings and some duct tape it was perfect to put my dick in thank you very much. She can even walk over and put it in herself.

So I hope you realise how silly you look now since not only do we know where to put it but we can figure it out for ourselves quite well.

Oh, a Tupperware kind of rubbermaid... made me think of this kind of rubber maid (NSFW)... they do say theirs don't crack easily even under hard use, too.

Why are so many nerds just dying for the nanotechnology future to get here? What's wrong with the present?

Because full blown nanotechnology means you can pretty much BitTorrent real objects. You just download the datafile for an object, and everything from food to cars to computers to houses could be created at will for everyone virtually for free - grown out of raw dirt and solar energy. You could even BitTorrent a RealDoll for example.... not that that is particularly relevant to why so many nerds just dying for the nanotechnology future to get here and what's wrong with the present.

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That's precisely what's happening this weekend at the 9th annual Roboexotica event in Vienna. The always-popular cocktail robot awards will be decided on Sunday, by a very happy judging panel.

I'm not interested until they combine one of those cocktail robots with a realdoll.

This works: http://www.realdoll.com/dolls.asp That's what I get for not testing.

combine this technology with that at http://www.realdoll.com/dolls.asp/

I wish these guys would license the technology.
Imagine them mooing in response to the tone of your voice...

The "skin" is already available, why don't they just start with one of these?
www.realdoll.com (not safe for school/work)

Check out Anna Mae for some serious (extreme?) feminity... ;-)

The "skin" is already available, why don't they just start with one of these?
www.realdoll.com (not safe for school/work)

Check out Anna Mae for some serious (extreme?) feminity... ;-)

Well, if you increase the stakes a little more, http://www.realdoll.com/.

Wow, I wasn't aware that RealDolls could be upgraded in that way. ;)

-Jar.

I know just what you mean. These young people with their fancy cell phones and PDAs just don't know how to have fun.

Check out how the Toy developers at http://www.realdoll.com/ use new technology to promote some good old-fashioned playtime.

Sooo wait?!!? You've installed servos into your RealDoll so it can slap you when you make a bad joke? You are pure geek. I envy you.

RealDoll now powered by Microsoft Direct Xr.
ewwwww.....




Get out of debt.

Dude, just get a Realdoll. They can display more emotions than Rei can.

Eh, you do know about these (obviously NSFW), right?

You can find them here.

When are they gonna announce a technology-sharing partnership with Real Doll. That's when I'll really take notice!

Tom Caudron
http://tom.digitalelite.com/

Anyway, I (a 27-year old man) still play with dolls...

Damn, your lucky. My girlfriend woul be pissed if she caught me playing with one of these.

I think Dell well end up as a Real Doll.

*I*'ll wait until they merge with *this* company before I get excited by robots.

Until then I'll be at the pub.

I tried recently to buy, but she seems quite unresponsive:

emerge girl

I even tried man 8 girl but I got a load of fluffy kitten ;)

Don't worry there's a lot of female virgins out there just like you.

You can check out a picture of Amanda here:
http://www.realdoll.com/dolls.asp

Now, combine this with a Realdoll, and you have yourself the perfect android. Ltc. Data would be envious. :P