From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sun Sep 01 2002 - 14:53:13 MDT
In an effort to lighten up the heavy tone to the list of late
I bring you:
The R2D2 Droid!
Hasbro site is here:
http://www.R2droidfactory.com/
You can order it from Amazon/Toys-R-Us here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN2/B000063KCP/qid%3D1023998651/br%3D1-1/ref%3Dbr%5Flf%5Ft%5F1/102-5656652-0290564
Slashdot discussion:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/01/194214&mode=thread&tid=159
Some funny discussion and more cool links
The price is $99.99 -- if its fast enough, I could take it for
walks around Greenlake. Its not a dragon, but it attract about
as much attention. If its not fast enough it would make a cool
present for my nephew. He isn't even 2 yet, but if you start them
young enough they grow up to be robot engineers.
I bet the commands are pre-programmed unfortunately. I want
one I can program to say "Hey Robert, why don't you ask that
woman for a date", as she walks by... Or, "My pal Damien
hasn't had a date in decades, whatya say you give him a
chance, he's a great writer." :-)
I suppose in the future, I'll be able to have a conversation
with my robot while *he* walks my dragon. Now that would be cool.
Its too bad Amazon's learning algorithm for preferences isn't
better. After dis'ing the Star Trek dolls and cards it
decided I was a girl, then after dis'ing the Barbies and
bake sets it thought I was a toddler. At that point I threw
in the towel. There could be other other cool things out there
that a mentally 9, physically 45 year old ocould really enjoy
but the computer won't tell me about it... :-(
Robert
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