R2D2 Beer Getting Machine

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."

Comments

Oh man, surely the commercial isn't for real.

[Bitsy Boffin]

Man, please tell me that American television commercials are not as bad as this

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?produ ct _id=1819726

it reminds me of a "commercial" in a South Park episode a couple seasons back.

Bad TV aside though, it kinds looks very cheesy as a toy itself. It needs to be scaled up for the adults in the audience, to have more "intelligence", can the "dance program", and R2's cool hologram projector wouldn't be bad either please :-)