From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Mon Jul 29 2002 - 12:37:55 MDT
It looks like we will be able to get beer serving home robots
in the near future. Pick one up at your local Walmart:
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=1819726
Slashdot discussion:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/28/2359240&mode=thread&tid=159
Don't you get the feeling that the marketing people are at a
loss for how to sell the product when it can "recognize 40
spoken phrases, play six exciting games, and sing three tunes"?
Of course, at 15" high it isn't going to be able to reach
the beer in my refrigerator (it goes without saying that
it can't reach or uncork the wine either). And then there
is the requirement for 4 AA and 4 D alkaline batteries.
Haven't these toy development people heard of rechargeables?
Robert
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