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Talking Mirror, Pirate Skull Security System

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the makers-of-the-batcave dept.

junger writes "Themeaddicts, owned by a Hollywood animatronics guru famous for doing the T-rex in Jurassic Park, has created a home security system with a talking mirror (complete with floating head), talking pirate skull, and talking toucan. It informs the homeowner of things like a car coming up the driveway or the jacuzzi reaching the right temperature, and it turns into a surveillance camera."

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  1. Mirror, mirror by Centurix · · Score: 5, Funny

    "There's someone prettier than you walking up the driveway, preparing poisoned apple now..."

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    Task Mangler
  2. Murray? by Bombcar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Murray? Is that you?

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    Fellowship 9/11
  3. Mirror, Mirror... by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mirror, mirror am I stoned?
    Your image is now goatse.cx guy,
    My home security must be pwn3d

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    A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
  4. "Surveillance" by fbjon · · Score: 4, Funny

    It turns into a surveillance camera as the jacuzzi reaches the right temperature?.. o, I want that! Can I take screen caps?

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    True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
  5. Re:Obligatory .... by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Although you know it doesn't run on linux. Knowing slashdot, if it ran on linux it would say so in the title of the article or at least in the description.

    This being slashdot you're more likely to see: To run Windows you'll need a bigger mirror.

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    A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
  6. From the Article by Orrin+Bloquy · · Score: 4, Funny
    "We're amazed ourselves at the innovation we've pioneered here," Barr said when demonstrating the "Talking Pirate Skull" mounted on a wall plaque. When the reporter mentioned "Billy the Talking Bigmouth Bass," Barr let loose a stream of profanity unheard of outside a Tourette's ward.
    Don't forget the article's mention of the cutting edge RS-232 technology it employs.
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    "Made up/misattributed quote that makes me look smart. I am on /. and I must look smart."
  7. You know you're a geek when... by noidentity · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...you see the headline "Talking Mirror, Pirate Skull Security System" and immediately think it's about a filesharing mirror site that talks.

  8. Aye me matie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...quick hide ye movies, the dreaded RIAA have pulled up broadside!

  9. Mass production... by Lazbien · · Score: 5, Funny

    It'll be interesting, though, to see this in mass production. All of the sudden, Joe Average and his generic home alarm will be rocketed forward into the 21st century. Suddenly, the "Home of the Future" will have a toe-hold with the Late Adopter market segment.

    How cool would it be when AI technology progresses to a point to interface with something like this? All of the sudden, the kid-sitting industry will taper off. Of course, we'll need to avoid any HAL like behavior.

    Husband: "Open the car-bay door, HAL."
    HAL: "I'm sorry Dave, I cannot do that..."
    Wife: "I told you not to hire that cheap garage door repairman... And stop calling it a car-bay."
    Husband: "I'll go get the Yellow Pages."

  10. Better by POKETNRJSH · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd rather it talk to someone who breaks in. I mean if I walked into some guy's house looking for something to gank and all of a sudden the mirror was like "What are you doing here?" I think I'd be gone FAST.