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Now if they could only make it thin and nimble enough to fit inside a Real Doll...

Globalization is only another word for fascism. People are starting to realize that Americans are all nothing more than oversexed perverts, and they want nothing to do with us. I blame it all on Slashdot.

I think the designers of this robot cat ought to integrate the AI portion into the Real Doll...

(Insert your own joke here.)

If you combine this with necoro , a realdoll and a voice synthesiser you'll have the ideal geek-toy... ;-)

Not that I am a huge fan of meetings or anything, but the last thing I want is more annoying handheld technology showing up in meetings.

*pager*
*cellfone*
*palm*


And now a frigging TALKING PALM? Then again...

Eliza + Talking Palm + Male Real Doll = no more meetings ever. Hmm....

Timmy, dressed in his fluffy pink angora sweater, is stroking Bruce, his big tabby tomcat. The sounds of Johnny Mathis on the hi-fi fill a rosey bed chamber. Dreams of Mikinos dance in Timmy's head, as he rubs his silky thighs with Coppertone, and switches on the sun lamp. In the corner sits Randy, ready for another long night of Timmy's he-love.

All back doors would do is compromise the security of the honest user. Allowing anyone from the FBI, CIA, KGB, or any hacker with a little time and intuition to gain access to your "thought to be secure" file. The people really trying to hide illegal activities with in encryption will be using "non approved" forms of encryption anyway if this legislation goes into effect..only hurting peopel like us who use it for peace of mind..not illegal activities. Encryption with backdoors completly goes against the whole reason to encrypt data in the first place. Calling encryption with backdoors secure makes just as much sense as a someone with a camcorder and the entire Real Doll collection calling himself a porn star ;)

All you need to do is combine that robot with this thing, and you'll never need a real girlfriend again!

Couple that with the fact that I originally read it as the "Large Hardon Collider" and did a double take, I figured this was a physicist's equivilant of the "real doll"

Sorry! That's just how my demented brain processed it

Mike

Is that lithography can be used to "machine" parts to greater tolerances than conventional processes. This means that bearings and joints can be more reliable and require less lubrication.

I'm sure you all realize what this could be used for...

Best Real Doll ever!

--Shoeboy

The only kind of girlfriend every /.-er can get!

The real keys to an enjoyable cubicle experience, IMNSHO, are two things:

1) headphones;

2) a sign reading something to the effect of: "Due to recent cutbacks, we have found it necessary to charge for casual conversation at the rate of one (1) beer per half-hour, after work, payable in advance."

Give it a shot, let me know how it works out...

Sometimes, when using my RealDoll, I get repetitive motion injuries. I wonder if Herman Miller could combine the Aeron design with the RealDoll... Maybe then it would be OSHA certified. I don't want to have to sue RealDoll for my injuries, the jury might think I'm a weirdo or something, even though they would probably all be secretly wishing for some private time with the RealDoll.

Ergo Audry? Sounds like a model you'd find at Real Doll.

The Genuine Slavegirl Princess Leia RealDoll(tm)

That's right. Check your self-respect at the door gentlemen, because this is the coup de gras for every geek on earth. Now we can revel in the luscious, voluptuous disgusted self-loathing only a genuine RealDoll(tm) can give.

Drawing on the same material, a Genuine Jabba RealDoll might not be quite as marketable a commodity, but would, nevertheless, make for an interesting piece of furniture for those hard-to-fill living rooms.

Now when my RealDoll shows up at the house, I can just tell my wife "Damn identity thieves are playing with my Visa card!"

they're "stress relief toys".. Ever see Cherry 2000? hey, astronauts have needs too...

I believe they just use a milspec Realdoll.

What about an android sex doll (think Blade Runner's replicants) that resembles a 13 year old girl? No children are harmed, used, nor required to produce such an item. If you believe otherwise, please list who. Why should such be illegal? However, you know there will be baseless, "moral", and irrational cries to outlaw such. What if a place that exists today like Read Doll which makes lifesized, sex dolls from steel and silicone that resemble humans in appearance, size, and weight made a "lolita model". Who is harmed?

If you're doing nothing wrong, why do you care!

During the slow evolution towards a totalitarian state, at what point should people say, "Hey, now that really crosses the line!"? Do we wait until jews and homosexuals are required to wear patches on their clothes? Do we wait until internment camps are built?

Would you not complain if the govt. put sewage sniffers in pipes to detect the urine of Americans using drugs? You have a few friends over for a party and some of them are pot smokers, so their urine triggers the attention of the sewage monitors. The next day, the cops are knocking on your door with probable cause to search your house for illegal substances. Whoops! Look what they found under your bed! A Real Doll. That was quite a hoo-hah for the boys in blue!

Would you mind if Tampa also added mechanical narcotics sniffers in public corridors? Using the same technology they use in airports to catch drug smugglers / bombs in suitcases, they could sniff your person for trace amounts of narcotics. Wanna play a practical joke on a bunch of people? Rub your currency with pot before you spend it. Somewhere down the line people would get detained by the sniffers over the money you had 'tagged'.

> Cheers to that! Of course I still can't seem
> to buy myself a good girlfriend.

Try here. She's expensive, though.

http://www.realdoll.com

We were going to get one, specially made as a lookalike of my friends ex, using his credit card number, sent to him with a tag round its neck saying "Go Fuck Yourself".
Never did though...

covering up their real interest in inflatables in space.

I can't say much more (NDA, you know), but think about normal, red blooded American men in space for 3 1/2 years on the round trip to Mars, and the cost to get one of these into orbit (at $10,000 a pound) for each astronaut.

Yes, inflatables are the answer.

There are alternatives.

they won't be adopted by the masses.

Think VHS, Cable, Sattelite dishes, the internet.

So, once we get robotocized Real Dolls watch out!

Though they'll probably be played up as fun companions, instead of sexual surrogates, considering how schizo Americans are about sex and pleasure.

real doll
theres even real hamster

.brad

I think we might have lost the hack/crack war to the popular media, but maybe we can salvage it by giving them "hack" for web site hacks, but still insisting that "crack" be used for breaking into security before the hack, or stealing credit cards or something. How could stealing credit cards be a hack? Maybe charging and shipping a realdoll to their address would be a prank, but otherwise cracking a system for information would be just "cracking". Hmm....

While the possibility of artificially manufactured cartilaginous tissue may be of some piddling consequence to people who are in desperate need of joint reconstruction, the implications of manufactured, durable, realistic joints and appendages has implications for CERTAIN OTHER MAJOR PLAYERS

From the Realdoll FAQ: Question: What if I don't fit with RealDoll's sex parts?
REALDOLL's vaginal and anal cavities are made snug to accommodate any
insertion. The silicone flesh is soft, slippery, and very elastic. Any
petroleum or water-based lubricants can be applied to ease entry.
REALDOLL's oral cavity contains soft silicone tongue and teeth. The
oral cavity is as snug as the doll's other entries. All of REALDOLL's
cavities allow deep insertions.

You're in luck!

Besides which, We still have alot more humans than we know what to do with so the market for either millitary or recreaional robots is porbably going to be quite limited.

Well, people are already making money on the Real Doll so chances that someone would want their real doll to be equipped with the ability to move, mimick sexual responsiveness or respond to spoken commands (I'll leave those to your imagination) seem pretty high to me.


-The Reverend (I am not a Nazi nor a Troll)

a partnership with these folks and the highly prized (or is that priced?) Natalie Portman model (Marketing slogan: you don't have to fall down for it to get you up!)


Going on means going far
Going far means returning

Funny. Most people say almost the same exact thing about these!

Yeah. Next thing you know, they'll be soldering their Palm into one of these.

http://www.realdoll.com/

Honey, I'm home!

- Isaac =)

Wow, they plan to do this on a plastic model of a human skeleton? That's gotta cause some complexity issues. Not to mention the miniaturization that would need to be done in order to fit the computer(s) into the body cavity. And what about appearance issues? I heard somewhere about a type of polymer that canbe used as a synthetic muscle (when a voltage is applied it contracts). there's also the realdoll. perhaps soon we'll see these things pretending to be us.

Do the guys at Realdoll know about this?? ;-)

In fact, he could have simply walked to civilization, but that wouldn't have been such a good story. I find this to be a decent analogy to what's going on at transmeta.

I must ask:
Where the heck is the generic Evaluation board? I keep going over to the website, waiting for the Transmeta development stuff to become available, along with the generic $300 internet appliance development board, or the wearable computer development board, or even the somewhat risqué Gal Friday Personal Companion development board, which is being eagerly awaited by the guys over at Real Doll. I know a lot of technical geeks who would much rather spend several years hacking hardware and hydraulics and software to make a girlfriend who will put out after a romantic evening of watching deep space nine and listening to long winded rants about how stupid their boss is.
(I got married early, so I skipped the need to learn hydraulics...)

Seriously, though:
Is it just me, or has anybody else noticed that the draw for transmeta seems to be variable power draw more than any inherent improvements in speed?

I want my developer tools! (and yes, I understand that keeping the tool kits hidden may slow down the competition - but I want to be the first kid on my block with a transmeta pda... which I built myself.

Strong data typing is for those with weak minds.

merge an automated exoskeleton with the RealDoll and i'll never have to work at getting laid again!!! WOOOHOOOOO!!!!


-FluX
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Super Humans? Genetic Engineering? The new GE oven...it's all so much!!! All i'm saying is we can put a man on the moon but we can't make a realdoll that does laundry?? wtf!!


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It's a toy. Just a toy. It's not really going to replace living things (unless it was a LOT more sophisticated) in anyone's heart or mind.

That said, I'd love to have one, if only to hack it and make it do things other than the designers intended. But as a pet? Sad. Truly, truly sad.

I don't think anyone is seriously thinking it would provide companionship. Hell, if you want mechanical companionship that's under $2000, just get a vibrator.

Or, go to (icky) realdoll. Now *that's* sad.

I am the Shmoo. Ku-ku-ka-choo.

Like I always say, on the petrification issue, you want to go here
:)

Enjoy!

Well like any real geek who has no social life because you might miss that all important /. post about that all important topic that you will later forget about and never remember in light of new posts... There is only 1 real NEEDED gift.

REALDOLL.COM has exactly what your looking for. Yea it's a bit pricy, but it does everything you need, and it never naggs you for attention when you up late coding your new interface for that new X-Windows APP.


Now if I could just get one with a GTK+ interface!


TIME: A measurement of how much time it takes for time to pass.

We all need one of these...

http://www.realdoll.com

Perfect geek gift.

For a little more money, he could have ... a real fake doll.

To the extent that computers doing anything is interesting, getting them to straightforwardly mimic human activity serves little purpose. These machines have even less soul than bacteria do, and yet they get anthropomorphosised into something eventually significant.

The **idea** is a fascinating one. But to the extent that it exists today, computing does not yet embody anything resembling soul, in any way. Everything else mentioned is merely cosmetic slightly pseudy window dressing as 'art'. The technology simply isn't that good yet.

Some sharp mind might even try to pair this up with Real Doll.

Then we'd really need a smoke or six...

http://www.realdoll.com


...phil

Get your robot maids right here.