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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. Ultimate case mod? by Tokerat · · Score: 5, Funny

    If only it was a little bigger, maybe 2 or 3 feet tall... then it would have enough room to stick the base of an iMac in his head with a nice 17" flat-panel screen sticking out the top, nice GUI, BSD under the hood, 802.11 built in...

    Ahhh, someday I will build my own droid. Then...uhh... phase 3: Profit!

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    CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
  2. I don't understand... by cliffy2000 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How can they offer high-caliber infrared and sonar capabilities at this price? I'd imagine that the licensing (for the Star Wars name, likeness, etc.) is accounting for a good 33% of costs... do, basically, 60 dollars for efficent and "sophisticated" abilities? Either they're losing money or misrepresenting the abilities of Mr. D2.

    1. Re:I don't understand... by Wumpus · · Score: 5, Funny

      They sell them at a loss, but make up for it in volume.

  3. kenny baker by fmita · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do I get a real Kenny Baker, too????!!!??