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Telepresence Via Matter Imaging
Qa32 writes "Computer scientists in the U.S. are developing a system which would allow people to convey a solid 3D recreation of themselves over the Internet. From the article: 'When you watch something created by claymation, it is a real object and it looks like it's moving itself. That's something like the idea we're doing... in our case, the idea is that you have computation in the 'clay', as though the clay can move itself.'"
to being the real thing sans the nagging.
Monstar L
This is computational clay. Not MAGIC clay.
"After all, why should anyone be allowed to have a personal duplicate of Michael Jackson at home."
Maybe it could be used as a form of punishment? Something like distributed penal servitude.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
Sounds like some strange combination of the T1000 from Terminator 2 and Gumby.
A fellow slashdotter told me about the boob mouse a few weeks ago. Since getting two, I haven't left the house. With this new innovation, I may never move from the computer chair.
omg, the thoughts of demolition man style sex make me wanan find whoever is doing this research and SHOOT THEM NOW BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!!
I wonder what thoughts would have been conjured up in my head had I not known that 'Demolition Man' was a movie :)
This is more like that episode where Fry gets a robot copy of Lucy Liu. we just have to insert a blank robot in the drive and copy the information over and BAM!...a robo-mation copy of Gillian Anderson.
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
Producing a warm, wet, and, I guess, more importantly, orificed interactive version seems somewhat more complex and definitely beyond the realms of this lifetime....
Actually, that's already reality. This implementation is called "woman". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman for more information.
Even if woman was implemented a long time ago (some legends mention a liberal usage of spare parts from a standard nerd), the price hasn't gone down, and this product is still very rare among nerd community.