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01-11-2010, 02:46 PM #1
Blow up doll not doing it for you anymore? SFW
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34804696...h_and_gadgets/
LAS VEGAS - As the Consumer Electronics Show winds down, another famous Las Vegas convention is just getting started with a few new gadgets of its own.
At a demonstration at the Adult Entertainment Expo on Saturday, a dark-haired, negligee-clad robot said "I love holding hands with you" when it sensed that its creator touched its hand. Yes, indeed: A New Jersey company says it has developed "the world's first sex robot," a life-size rubber doll that's designed to engage the owner with conversation rather than lifelike movement.
Another action, this one unprintable, elicited a different vocal response from Roxxxy the robot. The level of sophistication demonstrated was not beyond that of a child's talking toy, but Roxxxy has a lot more brains than that — there's a laptop connected to cables coming out of its back. It has touch sensors at strategic locations and can sense when it's being moved. But it can't move on its own, not even to turn its head or move its lips. The sound comes out of an internal loudspeaker.
Douglas Hines, founder of Lincoln Park, New Jersey-based True Companion LLC, said Roxxxy can carry on simple conversations. The real aim, he said, is to make the doll someone the owner can talk to and relate to.
"Sex only goes so far — then you want to be able to talk to the person," Hines said.
The phrases that were demonstrated were prerecorded, but the robot will also be able to synthesize phrases out of prerecorded words and sounds, Hines said. The laptop will receive updates over the Internet to expand the robot's capabilities and vocabulary. Since Hines is a soccer fan, it can already discuss Manchester United, he said. It snores, too.
Owners will also be able to select different personalities for Roxxxy, from "Wild Wendy" to "Frigid Farrah," Hines said. He's charging somewhere from $7,000 to $9,000 for the robot, including the laptop, and expects to start shipping in a few months.
A Japanese company, Honey Dolls, makes life-size sex dolls that can play recorded sounds, but Roxxxy's sensors and speech capabilities appear to be more sophisticated. Hines' goals are certainly more far-reaching.
An engineer, Hines said he was inspired to create the robot after a friend died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. That got him thinking about preserving his friend's personality, to give his children a chance to interact with him as they're growing up. Looking around for commercial applications for artificial personalities, he initially thought he might create a home health care aide for the elderly.
"But there was tremendous regulatory and bureaucratic paperwork to get through. We were stuck," Hines said. "So I looked at other markets."
The broader goal of the company is still to take artificial personalities into the mainstream, beyond sex toys, Hines said.
"The sex robot thing is marketing — it's really about making a companion," he said.
In a 2007 book, "Love and Sex with Robots," British chess player and artificial intelligence expert David Levy argues that robots will become significant sexual partners for humans, answering needs that other people are unable or unwilling to satisfy.
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01-11-2010, 02:50 PM #2
They have finally perfected the XOJ-37 Nuclear Powered Pan-Sexual Roto-Plooker? Sweet.
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01-11-2010, 02:57 PM #3
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01-11-2010, 03:03 PM #4Our world is full of surrender at the first sign of adversity, do not give up when the challenge meets you, meet the challenge. Through perseverance comes the rewards, the rewards that make life so enjoyable.
Seize the day, trusting little in the future.
if you want something, go after it. if you want to screw someone over, look DEEP in your heart and realize Karma is a bitch
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01-11-2010, 03:07 PM #5....................
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Is it cheating if you fuck robots?
I went looking for the site for the company for more pictures but got a man's ass instead.
http://www.truecompanion.com/home.html
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01-11-2010, 03:36 PM #6
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01-11-2010, 05:04 PM #7
This is actually pretty sad. The people buying a 7000 dollar sex robot should be spending that on counseling.
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01-11-2010, 05:30 PM #8
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01-11-2010, 06:26 PM #9
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01-11-2010, 07:57 PM #10glocal
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So what is the counselor going to tell the butt ugly 480 lb dude who can't find a girlfriend?
'Buy a robot.'
It's the same argument for prostitution. There's a lot of people in this world who won't be getting laid unless they pay big bucks or fuck an artificial life form. No amount of consolation, pity or comiserating is going to change that reality.
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01-11-2010, 08:30 PM #11
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01-11-2010, 08:45 PM #12
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01-12-2010, 12:17 AM #13
I saw this story earlier today at one of my political news sites and immediately thought L.A.M.E!!!
The reason is NOT because this is a sex robot, but instead because IMHO it IS NOT a sex robot. It's a limp chunk of latex or whatever with a couple sensors to have a detached computer attached via cable to say something related to the part touched. Nothing moves, nothing pulsates, nothing vibrates... hell, Tickle Me Elmo is more a "robot" than this fake.
If you read this selection, you see what they did;
"An engineer, Hines said he was inspired to create the robot after a friend died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. That got him thinking about preserving his friend's personality, to give his children a chance to interact with him as they're growing up. Looking around for commercial applications for artificial personalities, he initially thought he might create a home health care aide for the elderly. "But there was tremendous regulatory and bureaucratic paperwork to get through. We were stuck," Hines said. "So I looked at other markets."
I'm not a "sex doll" type, but I recall the Japanese dolls from a few years ago looking WAY hotter than this amateur thing. But I admittedly have a thing for the exotic in women...
Here's yer dang pics of the stupid fat fucks and their "robot";
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01-12-2010, 03:00 AM #14
$7000 could also buy you a hell of a lot of hookers.
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01-12-2010, 07:05 AM #15glocal
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This shot begs for captions....
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01-12-2010, 07:55 AM #16
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01-12-2010, 08:28 AM #17
I bought you mail order
My plain wrapper baby
Your skin is like vinyl
The perfect companion
You float in my new pool
Deluxe and delightful
Inflatable doll
My role is to serve you
Disposable darling
Can't throw you away now
Immortal and life size
My breath is inside you
I'll dress you up daily
And keep you till death sighs
Inflatable doll
Lover ungrateful
I blew up your body...
But you blew my mind
Oh Those Heartaches
Dreamhome HeartachesThe coefficent of desireability is inversly proportionate to the degree of availability.
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01-12-2010, 10:39 AM #18
Serious question/request for everyone here.
Can anyone get me credentials to enter the sex expo/convention?
Not because I want to fuck a robot, but it would be fun as hell and would make great footie for the Blurred Chrons.
Thanks!
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01-12-2010, 10:57 AM #19
Didn't SuPu go to that convention 5 years ago or so?
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