(Many apologies for last week, folks!  I thought it’d posted, but something must have fouled up along the way.  Still relevant info though…)

Japan rolls out the first robot girlfriend.  So soon?!  Man, trying to get up to walking & talking PVC models by 2010, I see.  Robots.  Destined to be our steel plated, glowing-red-diode-eyed apocalypse.  And the first step, to win the hearts and minds of humankind.  Or at least, charm the hell out of us with plastic perfection.

 Now, considering the idea is not even remotely new, I was entertained by how matter-of-fact, the news blurb seems.  It’s barely even two pages of text!  Nothing to see here, folks.  Wait for the Mac OS version; she’ll be a lot more stylish and have a punchy on-camera role in the Mac vs. PC commercials.  To be honest, it’s amazing to me that the premise of artificially intelligent, robotic companions isn’t a far fetched idea.  Heck, here we see the concept is already commercialize-able — SOMEBODY out there bought those robotic toy dogs!  It’s only a matter of time, I tell you!  Only a matter of time till Asimo is tooling around our homes, plotting our demise!

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