I love the colours (from jwz)

[foxtongue]

"Takahiro Takeda, postgraduate student of Japan's Tohoku Univ., dances with Partner Ballroom Dance Robot (PBDR) at a factory of Nomura Unison robotic venture company in Chino city, 200-km west of Toyko. The prototype dance partner robot, developped by Japan's Tohoku Univ Professor Kazuhiro Kosuge, enables them to move in all directions with three special wheels by predicting how its partner will mobe with a sensor."

"Robots on the market include a machine that looks like a machine dressed in bright colors programmed to converse in just enough small talk to stop the elderly from going senile and a doll that articulates the needs of a five-year-old boy.

In January, a Tokyo University engineer unveiled a humanoid that can shuffle its feet and wave its hands to preserve a traditional Japanese dance falling out of fashion among young people."

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[ishokunaeppy.livejournal.com]

P.S. That was actually a typo joke. :\

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

(I'm nerdly enough to have thought as such... I think we need to get out a bit more. Either that or meet.)

[ishokunaeppy.livejournal.com]

I hear there are bears "outside."

Depending on my financial situation this summer (and my ability to take off of work), I may be doing a bit of traveling. Perhaps I'll make it all the way over to your part of the continent.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

That's the big room with the blue ceiling and the burning, right?

As my financial situation just took a flying leap to the realm of suck, I'm staying put.

[ishokunaeppy.livejournal.com]

And you have to converse in complete realtime. It's kind of freaky.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Realtime I can deal with, it's the lack of hotlinks in face conversation which drives me up the wall.

[ishokunaeppy.livejournal.com]

Metaconversations > *

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

the ability to Google names and articles to help explain things. "You know, that band, that had the song with that tiny snippet of lyric I remember."

[ishokunaeppy.livejournal.com]

Exactly. This is why I want to be constantly jacked in.