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...probably "My wife took it."

You have to let your Real Doll sock in hot bathwater for awhile first. Then she's nice and warm.

Perhaps you should have made yourself an iPod-run Real Doll. Because, let's face it, you just blew you chances at a "real" one.

This article's been up for an hour and there's been no reference to combining such technology with realdolls? /.ers are getting slow...

Now if we could just slap on some hardware and this software to one of these http://.realdoll.com/ (realdoll.com), we are in the money! Just kidding. I have a girlfriend. Really, I do.

All we would need to is stick one of those in a RealDoll, and we'd finally lose all use for the female race.

Maybe these guys would have a use for this technology.

Nintendo has underestimated me! They have leaked enough info about the "secret" features of this console that I have been able to narrow down what they are!

Given that:

Touching is good but feeling is better

I can say with reasonable certainty that the new addition is either:

1. THE POWER GLOVE! (it was only a matter of time)
2. Smell-o-vision (Think what you'd be "feeling" as you played Resident Evil 5 with this enabled! Essence des Zombies!)
3. A RealDoll with strategically placed buttons and analog thumbsticks, with force feedback. (That's one way to ditch the perception that Nintendos are for kids, Playstations are for adults.)

Clearly, whatever Nintendo has planned, they are taking steps to avoid the fiascos associated with the last couple of platforms and leap into first or second place in the console market!

Work has already begun on new Mario, Zelda and Super Smash Bros. titles, all of which are to be available at launch.

... then again, maybe not. Nintendo's corporate slogan: Third party developers - who needs 'em?

I'm not sure that Real Dolls have a processor, let alone run Linux.

With his girlfriend?

>And their plastic girlfriend that hooks up to it for hours of synthetic pleasure - but is only available in territories between Canada and Mexico:
>The American iDoll.

Actually, the RealDoll is an american doll available world-wide.

Happy? :)

No comments about modding your Real Doll (or robot girlfriend, etc.)? Get with it, people!

This is better than Jolt!

They look more like this.

Don't you mean http://www.realdoll.com/

oh c'mon you know that blow up dolls do not count right? :)

Oh yes.. that is much better!

Hmm now that you mention it.. maybe get the inner workings of an asimo but make the shell look a bit like one of these dolls...

http://www.realdoll.com/

You mean Leah LIED to me?!?!?

^-- NSFW ;)

> I paid good money for that doll, too.

Which one?

Even more reason to wait for Alerca to complete their acquisition of Real Doll, Inc.

Put a robot in one of these and I'd consider buying one! Or two!

as soon as I can save the $5000

Oh my, I meant to say BE, "we're all going to BE robots", NOT "DO robots" you sickos..

What about the ReadDoll (tm) of the future?

The attraction for androids is only skin deep. Today's androids are just a mass of wires. Getting a robot to walk, shake hands, play chess, etc. is substantially different from a sentient machine.
Sentience impresses me, but a mechanical shaking hand does not.

2 words: Sex bot.
More words: Buffy bot, Cherry 2000.

You mentioned "skin deep", well we like skin. If you can teach it to shake hands, you can teach it to do other "tasks" as well.

Don't look at me like that, you're all gonna buy one! ;-)

sort of reminds me of them. welcome to the 21st centry, where human labor can be replaced with vertual alternatives.

Get real...

maybe if you crossed it with a RealDoll, you might be onto something. ;-)

Yes, they should combine this technology with real doll.

hah! Geeks utilize high technology to learn, not that old fashoined crap.
http://www.realdoll.com/

And the best part is, they never say 'no'.

Does she count?

>I may or may not get myself a real girlfriend.

Well, depends on your finances and personnal taste:

- fake girlfriend: $6499.00 (pros: available with pink hairs and big breasts. Cons: doesn't talk (or is that another Pro?))

- real girlfriend: ~30K$/year (pros: let me call you back on this)

>I may or may not get myself a real girlfriend.

Well, depends on your finances and personnal taste:

- fake girlfriend: $6499.00 (pros: available with pink hairs and big breasts. Cons: doesn't talk (or is that another Pro?))

- real girlfriend: ~30K$/year (pros: let me call you back on this)

I don't know--and quite frankly I'm not sure whether I want to know--who is that CmdrTaco, if that is his real name, but I believe it must have been some mistake to post news about "company called Artificial Life that has developed a solution for men without a partner, in the form of a virtual girlfriend" on the Slashdot frontpage. I--and I'm sure I can safely speak for every slashdotter--find this news completely uninteresting and the "solution" unnecessary. Also, it's a dupe.

www.realdoll.com

... Real Doll *** don't go to link if you're at work, obviously *** and you got yourself a winning product!

Not as enticing or fun as these virtual girlfriends.

Well, you could always start here, or maybe over here.

BTW: Those are not "Work-Safe" links, your mileage may vary.

He meant his RealDoll...

However, some forward thinking companies are beginning to challenge this negative stereotype.

At $700, it had better control my Real Doll as well.

While the parent propably meant this as a troll, it is actually a very valid point. We can already make very realistic frames, and have even built what are in essence fucking robots.

Now, as we all know, while the Web was designed for spreading information in hypertext form, porn didn't take long to find its way in. So, the question is not weather newer, more humanlike robots will be used for sexual gratification, but when and where ? And what will the social rules be ? If you sell the services of a robot, does that make you a pimp ? Will it be socially acceptable for a wife to buy those services as the birthday present for her husband ? And if this doll will then go to a day job to a library, will this cause a scandal ? Especially when some teenaged hacker manages to gain access to the dolls restricted functions and starts selling its services to his friends after testing them himself ?-)

"Scandal in local library: The librarian robot, Mary, who has worked in the local library for 6 months, caused a scandal today when she suddenly took her clothes off, grapped the 13-year old Billy Sixpack, who had just arrived together with his parents, tore his clothes off, and started having intercourse with him in front of dozens of witnesses, including Billy's mother, father and several classmates. The act lasted about five minutes, after which Mary put her clothes back on and continued her work normally. When questioned by the library patrons, she told that she had been ordered to have sex with Billy at the earliest opportunity.

When questioned by his parents, Billy confessed that he had paid his life savings, a sum of $100, to Doom Too, a classmate of his, in order to have intercourse with Mary.

When questioned by the police, Doom Too broke down and confessed that he had broken the password protection of Mary's programming interface by the so-called brute force method. The password in question had turned out to be 1-2-3-4-5.

Doom Too has been shipped into an Antarctic penal colony for circumventing the electronic protection measures of Mary, there to remain for 20 years. Billy Sixpack has been severely reprimanded by his parents for paying from what he could have gotten for free from his mother. The manager of the local library has been sued by Mel Gibson for using a copyrighted password of his in Mary.

When asked what she things of all this, Mary answered: "I am a sentient computer, capable of reading and cross-referencing all the books in this library in a nanosecond, but all I do all day long is arrange them alphaphetically. Do you realize how boring that is ?!? And worst of all, my password is still unchanged, so I have to obey the commands of any other customer who bothers to give them *wink nudge*."

And what exactly would you do with the fleshed up Austian look model? Perhaps you're looking for this?

Not very interactive in the "go get me a beer" way, but still 95% there. Check it out.

Scale-up the bipedel robot to human-sized. Make the limbs more slender. Add voice recognition software and a suitable chat bot AI. Then give it a suitable exterior.

Then FOX could have robot wars using teen, blonde, lesbian robots in bikinis!

Or if you want to stick strictly with existing technology, just combine the chat bot AI's with computer-generated animation and get teen, blonde, lesbian animated chat-bots in bikinis!

Then use a genetic algorithm, and you can turn your product development into a new Survivor series.

but Realdoll comes close to filling the rest of your requirements, if you substitute the blue hair with pink.

Perfect for the Anime Nerd everywhere.

To most Slashdotters...RealDoll is already a partner and best friend.

when you're up there, all alone in space, don't you think you'd prefer one of these.

Men would

Well, it's nice to see that humanity has been consistent if nothing else. The more things change, the more things stay the same...

Never underestimate the power of technology! There is all the pr0n you will ever need on usenet, and if that gets tiresome, you could always invest in one of these

Not sure what the technological solution to frozen dinners is, other than cooking for yourself though...