Today's example of creepy technology is a kissing robot. Make that a distance-enabled kissbot, and one with a sickly name: Kissenger.
It's for long-distance relationships. You kiss this terrifying-looking lump, and your partner kisses right back. No word on latency issues of any kind.
As one commentator notes,
I'm not sure what devastates the human heart more—losing love, or making love to the featureless head of a robotic Harry Kissinger.
One implemention possibility would be to record celebrity lip and tongue action. Oh yes.
Not disturbed enough? Try the video. And think of the robot-to-robot option mentioned at the end:
The uncanny valley: it swallows us whole.
(thanks to Todd Bryant, who will no doubt implement this within the Mixxer)
Programming it in as we speak.
Posted by: Todd | July 31, 2012 at 08:45