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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."

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  1. Oh man, surely the commercial isn't for real. by Bitsy+Boffin · · Score: 1, Troll

    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 :-)

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  2. Re:No C3P0? Damn the luck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Excuse me, sir, but I am not American, and I was confused by your reference to "bat". After reading your post, I envisioned giant leather-winged creatures of the night, and became so frightened that I almost pissed my trousers, of which I only have one pair. Living in an Afghan orphanage is difficult enough without you nasty Americans scaring me with tales of demons and evil beasts. So please, sir, in the future, abstain from using all English verbs and nouns in your posts, to ensure that we non-Americans will understand you. Since you have already expressed a desire to help us in this manner -- a desire that is clearly sincere, and not simply a half-assed attempt to explain your ultra-lame "humor" -- I expect that you will remedy the situation immediately. Cheerio.

    -- The_Messenger
    (Currently banned for pulling my cock our of Fent's ass and slapping her in the face with it.)