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is really a blow-up doll for ISPs.

That would imply they're blowing him when it's more apparent that he's blowing them, but I get your intent. Perhaps the Real Doll company can make a sex doll that looks like Ajit Pai?

Well, not everyone is so hard up in getting a date/spouse as are /.ers.

I have a spouse. I also have a sexbot. They are not mutually exclusive. So why do I have a sexbot? My wife bought it for me before she went on a 4 month business trip overseas. I told her it wasn't necessary, and that I could stay on the porch without any technological help, but she insisted. She picked out the Sai model, which actually looks similar to her.

She is back from her trip, but the sexbot is still nice for when she isn't "in the mood". She has an appetite for about 3 times per week, and I prefer about twice that. So the doll makes up the difference.

These guys have the perfect women for you. (first link NSFW, second link probably NSFW unless in Japan)

I don't understand why this is needed.

It is needed to make Real Dolls more realistic. Actual human skin would be a great feature.

Men can play with dolls too, you know. (NSFW)

https://www.realdoll.com/ (NSFW*, * work/wife)

After my girlfriend broke up with me I had a Real Doll created that looks just like her. Lower maintenance cost, fewer viruses, better documentation, infinitely more user friendly, and she completely respects my privacy.

Umm, well that was entertaining. The've actually managed to cross the bottom of the uncanny valley.

After my girlfriend broke up with me I had a Real Doll created that looks just like her. Lower maintenance cost, fewer viruses, better documentation, infinitely more user friendly, and she completely respects my privacy.

They hired the marketing VP from RealDoll.

Link for the curious but too afraid to ask, https://www.realdoll.com/ and also available as a she-male.

On Slashdot 'marrying above your pay grade' usually means getting the tricked out version of a Real Doll.

Here you go.
Or here are others.

Of course, it looks like female soldiers love to give head there as well.

More important to the slashdot community would be how you feel about relationships with real dolls. [NSFW]

- But wouldn't you miss the sex? (Say there's no females on the trip for safety reasons.) - What sex?

Imagine a NASA engineered version of the RealDoll (NSFW!). Such a device could solve the world's population boom problem, too.

Apparently it's somewhat pricey. Although $2.3 million is easily enough to order the most depressing harem in history!

Do not cross the uncanny valley, fuck it! (warning: absolutely NSFW unless you're in the pr0n industry).

I think you are confusing American Girl Dolls http://www.americangirl.com/index.php and RealDolls http://www.realdoll.com/ (NSFW...)

I got just the doll for you ^_^. Kawaii?

http://www.realdoll.com/

That's the truth. Why, you can just look at the success of replacing women in certain simple and repetitive actions (NSFW)

Yeah, that's called the Real Doll [NSFW].

Now I was reading somewhere - can't rember - about a copanany unveiling a Personalized Anime Robot Girl? Maybe we can cross these technologies?

Throw in a dose of Real Doll and it gets even more interesting.

I also see stuff like fatheads (life size posters http://www.fathead.com/) being a popular circumvention devices.

I think a RealDoll would be the best circumvention.

Custom sex dolls with more realistic faces?

Umm, don't they already make those?

And neither do the thousands of customers to this site (Possibly NSFW. Didn't actually go there)

Well... As a guy, I'm waiting for the young Japanese female robot with working pussy and mouth...

OK

Perhaps you'd be interested in this product? http://www.realdoll.com/

Don't need to. The parent wasn't kidding (NSFW)

I don't see any point to carrying around the latter, nobody on /. will ever get a chance to use it

Hey! Sure I will, (I don't want to get my Realdoll messy).

What about me ? I'm married to my Real Doll, why can't I have a salary raise too ? DISCRIMINATION !!!!

"Not a blowup doll"? You mean a Real Doll, Right?

Mix all that Japanese robotics know-how with outer skins from the likes of RealDoll (NSFW) and BoyToy (NSFW). Given all the pornographic material available from Japan, it's only a matter of time.

Where's my cat-girl sex slave? (NSFW)

Actually, that was a joke about /.ers not having human girl friends and going on dates with their real dolls instead: http://www.realdoll.com/ (Do I really have to point out that it's NSFW?)

Granted, the fleshlight is a little over twice as expensive, but it's still in about the same range, and it is (more or less) the same kind of toy -- a disembodied genital.

Now, the TrueCompanion website doesn't list a price, and I assume it would be much higher. For comparison, it looks like the Female RealDoll runs around $5k or $6k... But they have Male ones, too, and they aren't cheaper, unless you go for the disembodied torso.

And a Sybian is a little over $1k.

So no, I don't think it really says all that much. I mean, I do agree with you about this:

Why anyone would spend hundreds of dollars on a sex toy is beyond me.

...though probably for a reason you wouldn't like: If I was that desperate, a prostitute is probably more cost-effective and convenient, and I'd rather not do either. But I don't really see anything about this to make one gender better or worse... ...though I suspect that far more women own vibrators than men own any sex toy. Maybe we make up for it in pornography?

Granted, the fleshlight is a little over twice as expensive, but it's still in about the same range, and it is (more or less) the same kind of toy -- a disembodied genital.

Now, the TrueCompanion website doesn't list a price, and I assume it would be much higher. For comparison, it looks like the Female RealDoll runs around $5k or $6k... But they have Male ones, too, and they aren't cheaper, unless you go for the disembodied torso.

And a Sybian is a little over $1k.

So no, I don't think it really says all that much. I mean, I do agree with you about this:

Why anyone would spend hundreds of dollars on a sex toy is beyond me.

...though probably for a reason you wouldn't like: If I was that desperate, a prostitute is probably more cost-effective and convenient, and I'd rather not do either. But I don't really see anything about this to make one gender better or worse... ...though I suspect that far more women own vibrators than men own any sex toy. Maybe we make up for it in pornography?

Deliveries could get really personalized once you fill out this page:
http://www.realdoll.com/cgi-bin/snav.rd?action=viewpage&section=frealdoll2 [realdoll.com]
Be sure and check the shipping container for signs of tampering, because in this case the "handling" in "shipping and handling" may have deeper meaning.

Holy crap...6k US$ for a piece of plastic with a hole in it... I'm not sure what's scarier, the price tag or the fact that apparently there's actually people willing to pay that kind of money or they'd have gone out of business.

I agree that it should be opt in, but I'm for it. Ideally, when things get advanced enough I figure Google can save me a lot of work. Once they know enough about my searching and buying habits they'll be able to do both for me. Every once in a while a box will show up at my door: "You need this. We found it at an awesome price. You will be billed via Google Finance".

Deliveries could get really personalized once you fill out this page:
http://www.realdoll.com/cgi-bin/snav.rd?action=viewpage&section=frealdoll2
Be sure and check the shipping container for signs of tampering, because in this case the "handling" in "shipping and handling" may have deeper meaning.

You've spelled your wife's url incorrectly.

My wife would not tolerate such slack goofing off.

My wife doesn't mind my mistakes, as long as I keep coming back for more.

OMG, think of all the money you could save on dating, condoms, pregnancy tests and the inevitable flowers when you hurt their feelings. I don't think I would go with a pillow though, I think someone needs to send that guy a link to Realdoll.

I would have thought that would be an easy thing to provide them for mental stimulation on a long boring journey. Couple of laptops with few thousand hours of video, games, website snapshots, virtual environments to explore.

The question you ask in your subject ("Why no TV/Internet?") and the answer you provide are, to some extent, apples and oranges.
 
They had no [live] TV/internet because a real space craft headed even to the Moon, let alone Mars, would have such access. A laptop loaded as your propose is no substitute because it isn't 'live' or 'real' in the same manner they would experience TV or internet the same way they would sitting at home. It's canned, not spontaneous, and it doesn't change over time.
 
Which, of course, isn't to say that such things aren't valuable, only that they are to real thing like a Real Doll is to actual human contact and communication. (Even non sexual contact.) Over time, such things only serve to increase the pressure of being far from home. Canned and simulated entertainment is ultimately no substitute for actual communication.
 
Disclaimer - I am not an astronaut, nor do I play one on TV. But I did make multiple SSBN patrols while serving in the USN Submarine Service. (However, I served back in the 1980's, long before laptops became available or common.)

Imagine what a creation he might make in conjunction with Realdoll

Exteriors for both men and women and this seems to be something of a match in technology. but thise is this too ASIMO which can walk and run.

http://www.realdoll.com/cgi-bin/snav.rd?action=viewpage&section=dollgallery

Take your pick ...

Depends. Does this count as a woman?

Well, even then we might be hard pressed to exhaust the space. Remember: 2^128 ~ 10^38. With 10^49 atoms on earth, if we convert the entire earth mass into ipv6 stacks, we would need stacks using less than 10^11 atoms to actually exhaust the address space. 10^11 atoms is pretty small, e.g., taking silocon at 28 grams/mole, this will roughly translate to 10^-11 grams of chip per ipv6 stack. That's a very small chip, and no earth left to move around on.

Holy crap dude, I think you might need one of these.

Only those with enough money.

citation needed

teledildonics

The Miss Kanna case mod

The Katsuya Matsumura Anime girl computer case mod

Just like a woman

Real Doll

Boy Toy Dolls

Programmed for love

Therapeutic 'doll therapy' for dementia seems the most accepted by the medical community and is still controversial, there are other therapeutic studies going on, but I only a spent minute or two googling.

Ask and you shall receive (warning: NSFW).

Will it be a pleasure model too?

The first practical use of novel technology is typically sex. So why not?

http://www.realdoll.com/

realdoll = nerd sex slave?
http://www.realdoll.com/

They have talking realdolls now?

http://www.realdoll.com/