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Sony To Release New Pet Robot By Year's End

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the metallic-nerd-ISO-significant-other dept.

tewl writes: "Saw this [article on CNN] : Sony Corp. said on Thursday it will begin selling a new pet robot by the end of the year as a mechanical pal for its popular 'Aibo' robot dog. 'It will be a friend of Aibo's, but we can't say anything more about it,' a Sony spokeswoman said. Further details, including the robot's launch date, will be announced on October 12." Name the robot here! Sony won't care, but if you're right, you can tell all your friends months from now that you just knew it.

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  1. alwright! by jafac · · Score: 4

    guest-fodder on Battlebots!

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  2. What the heck??? by westfalen · · Score: 4

    This product is the epitomy of the ostentatiousness of today's society. Think about it, this AIBO can't do anything and it sells for $2500? For $2500, you can get a very much more useful computer or donate the money to a worthwhile cause. Sure, AIBO is a technological marvel but pratically, it is a piece of rubbish. Are people too lazy to get a real pet and show some responsibility?

  3. There will be two slightly different models. by crovira · · Score: 4

    The first, "Slobbo," will drool, laze all over the couch, (see first activity and reflect on what your couch will look like in a month,)drink out of the toilet, eat your food out of your plate, drink your beer, fart, occasionally eat grass, blow chunks and then eat it, lick its balls, pop a stiffy at the person you hope might have become an S.O. (before they met "slobbo.")

    The second, "The Howling", will greet all and sundry with deafening, siren like howls before jumping all over them while growling, baring its teeth and peeing on their chest.

    Yes... There's a boys best friend is his mom and a man's best friend is his dog. Heart attack or cancer?

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  4. Re:hell yeah by SMN · · Score: 3
    I've seen some pretty wacked out trolls here on slashdot, from the ancient times through the age of the Hot Grits and the petrification of Natalie Portman, but this one takes the cake. A First Post posted as a reply. . . now I've seen everything. That's so original that I'd moderate is up, were it not for the fact that I'd be killed in metamod.

    I pity the troll who ate enough lead paint chips to actually press the submit button on that.

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  5. A2 by jherro · · Score: 3

    My guess is that the next generation Aibos will be made of a transforming liquid metal and will hunt down and kill the current Aibo owners. The only AIBO owners that survive will be the ones who have reprogramed thier Aibos to protect them from the evil A2s. Hasn't that been done already?

  6. I can just see it... by kabir · · Score: 4

    Ten years from now we'll be seeing headlines about the rampaging packs of robotic dogs which have finally turned on their human opressors after years of planning via freakish, Furby-esq communication.

    *sigh*

    Has no-one seen Electric Dreams? This sort of thing just ends badly!
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