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Posted by Jay (Member # 5786) on :

Wow, my chances of a date just went up:
Japanese develop 'female' android

Posted by Beanny (Member # 7109) on :

[Angst]

spooky

Posted by Dread Pendragon (Member # 7239) on :

I don't know, it seems like it would be high maintainence. [Wink]

Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :

Do we really need another expensive piece of electronics designed to replace human females in a geek's life? We already have video games, after all.

--Enigmatic

Posted by Beanny (Member # 7109) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Enigmatic:
Do we really need another expensive piece of electronics designed to replace human females in a geek's life? We already have video games, after all.

--Enigmatic

Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :

chii?

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

How do you say Stepford in Japanese?

Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :

STEP! FORD!

(loudly and slowly in english, just like anything else)

--Enigmatic

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

Steppu foru.

Posted by genius00345 (Member # 8206) on :

Wouldn't it technically be a gynoid?

From dictionary.com=

andro- or andr-
pref.
Male; masculine: androgen.

gyno- or gyn-
pref.
Woman: gynarchy

---Just saying. [Smile]

Posted by Sid Meier (Member # 6965) on :

lol, I wonder if they use the droid for other then... research purposes... *whistles*

Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :

Ewww!

Posted by Sid Meier (Member # 6965) on :

[Laugh]

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

quote:
Wouldn't it technically be a gynoid?

Ha ha ha! I am totally using Gynoid as an alternate nickname sometime.

Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :

Data will be... hmm... thrilled?!

Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :

I doesn't do anything; that's the beauty of it!

Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :

[Evil Laugh]

Posted by Tammy (Member # 4119) on :

Amazing!

Posted by His Savageness (Member # 7428) on :

I think that I would be more creeped out by interacting with that android than I would be interacting with a more "roboty" looking android. I'm a firm believer in the uncanny valley.