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R2D2 Beer Getting Machine

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oh-dear-me dept.

defectorg writes "R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid is coming to us this summer. Equipped with innovative speech recognition technology, infrared scanning technology and working sonar navigation, this R2-D2 recognizes 40 spoken phrases, plays six exciting games, and sings three tunes. It even has a retractable arm that lets it hold a 12-ounce beverage! Now this would be a nice thing to hack wireless lan iinto, let it notify new mail, read news and most important, ~/bin/let_r2d2_get_a_cold_beer_somehow.pl."

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  1. Need...more....height.... by Weffs11 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    At 15" tall it is not tall enough to get into my fridge and get me my beer, nor to hand it to me when I am sitting comfortably on the couch.

  2. Re:I don't understand... by pauldy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I could be wrong but I took the parent of this as a joke concerning the postings of late regarding the video game console industry. In these posts the console manufacturers sell their consoles "at a loss". I could be wrong but I chuckled when I read it thinking of the lameness of "selling at a loss".

  3. Re:I don't understand... by Alien+Being · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's an Old joke.