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Topic: Japanese develop 'female' android
Beanny
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posted July 27, 2005 05:06 PM
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Dread Pendragon
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posted July 27, 2005 05:11 PM
I don't know, it seems like it would be high maintainence.
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Enigmatic
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posted July 27, 2005 05:54 PM
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.
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Beanny
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posted July 27, 2005 06:12 PM
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.
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Bob_Scopatz
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posted July 27, 2005 07:01 PM
How do you say Stepford in Japanese?
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Enigmatic
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posted July 27, 2005 07:31 PM
STEP! FORD!
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Annie
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posted July 27, 2005 07:33 PM
Steppu foru.
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genius00345
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posted July 27, 2005 11:09 PM
Wouldn't it technically be a gynoid?
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Sid Meier
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posted July 27, 2005 11:15 PM
lol, I wonder if they use the droid for other then... research purposes... *whistles*
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Annie
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posted July 28, 2005 12:52 AM
quote: Wouldn't it technically be a gynoid? Ha ha ha! I am totally using Gynoid as an alternate nickname sometime.
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Corwin
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posted July 28, 2005 05:34 AM
Data will be... hmm... thrilled?!
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skillery
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posted July 28, 2005 08:53 AM
I doesn't do anything; that's the beauty of it!
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Tammy
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posted July 28, 2005 10:03 AM
Amazing!
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His Savageness
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posted July 28, 2005 10:12 AM
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.
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