Welcome Pescado
tiggerypum:
Glad to see this forum up, I used to go to vs primarily to check your forums.
I dug out one of my rarely used lj avatars for this site, my usual geek me avatar looks much to cheery, besides I mostly *am* surrounded by idiots, most of the present company excluded of course ::)
Oddysey:
Robotic seal it is, then. (And I'll take that as a compliment.)
It's called "Paro." Made by a robotics company in Japan, and intended as a companion to the elderly. It makes happy purring noises when you cuddle it, and makes angry noises if you abuse it.
J. M. Pescado:
How amusing. I have something like that also. It's called a "cat".
Oddysey:
Okay, that was really, really funny. It is rather ridiculous, which is part of the reason I liked it so much when I read about it in an article on robots. It does make sense when you think about the fact that Japan is basically the worst country in the world in terms of elderly:not elderly population ratios, so the idea is that something that doesn't need to be fed can keep older people company.
It's still pretty funny, though. And I just like saying "Robotic Baby Harp Seal!"
J. M. Pescado:
Well, I suppose it still needs to be fed. After all, somebody's gotta change the batteries.
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