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Microsoft Robots to Watch Kids

Posted by samzenpus on from the if-I-sleep-the-robot-will-get-me dept.

Archangel Michael writes "Microsoft announced today that is testing a new toy / robot to watch over kids. My question is, if the toy BSOD does it take the kid with it? Now we are letting inanimate objects raise our kids! When will it end?"

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  1. Sounds like Awesomo! by iolaus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Awesomo loves you!

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  2. The horror! by Richie1984 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The teddy bear sitting in the corner of the child's room might look normal, until his head starts following the kid around using a face recognition program

    Does anyone else think that this could be the scariest thing ever? Especially if they make a clown version?

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    1. Re:The horror! by C0d1ngM0nk3y · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hehe....

      'Can't sleep, clown will eat me....!'

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    2. Re:The horror! by netman12 · · Score: 5, Funny
      perhaps also allowing a parent talk to the child through a special phone, or monitor the child via a camera and wireless Internet connection.

      And at 2am the child wakes up screaming, after someone hacked into the robot and played a recording of Chucky?

    3. Re:The horror! by Ed+Avis · · Score: 5, Funny

      In Soviet Russia, children play with toys!

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  3. Linux by BladeMelbourne · · Score: 5, Funny

    I give it two months before someone can boot Linux on it, and in 6 months they could do it without needing to solder...

  4. Clippy by millwall · · Score: 5, Funny
    Robot with Clippy's voice:

    "Hi kid! It looks like you are peeing, do you want me to help?"
  5. Kids nowadays... by RayTardo · · Score: 5, Funny
    Now we are letting inanimate objects raise our kids!

    You've obviously never hired a teenage babysitter...
  6. Re:BSOD by millwall · · Score: 5, Funny

    "My experience is that XP itself is incredibly stable.

    Congratulations on getting a post that included this sentence to be modded "Informative" :-)

  7. Gate's Laws of Robotics by windowpain · · Score: 5, Funny

    1) A robot may not use a non-Microsoft product or through inaction, allow a human being to use a non-Microsoft product.

    2) A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

    3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

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    1. Re:Gate's Laws of Robotics by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Funny
      4. Classified.

      (Remember that Robocop boots in DOS.)

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  8. In other news by Nine+Tenths+of+The+W · · Score: 5, Funny

    Michael Jackson announces a sudden decision to become a cyborg.

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  9. Re:perspective please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    But your parent is an anonymous coward!