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arielwaldman

arielwaldman

San Francisco, CA
July 2007

OCT 16, 2007 01:16 AM





Each week, Ariel Waldman serves a tasting of the latest in sex and tech.



Getting Physical With Virtual Reality



Combining virtual avatars with physical robots, the U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi may one day be the death of Second Life sex and/or resorting to RealDolls. The humanoid robot keeps to old school virtual reality in true form, requiring a head-mounted display for the potentially horny user.

A virtual 3D avatar that moves in sync with the robot’s actions is mapped onto the machine’s green cloth skin (the skin functions as a green screen), and the sensor-equipped head-mounted display tracks the angle and position of the viewer’s head and constantly adjusts the angle at which the avatar is displayed. The result is an interactive virtual 3D character with a physical body that the viewer can literally reach out and touch. Here is a video of U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi.



Michihiko Shoji, who helped create the U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi, wants to make the green-clothed robot ready and suitable for "general household use" eventually. We can only hope that our household has hot humanoids in the near future. At the very least, it'd be an excuse to ditch our guilty pleasure SL accounts for good.



Robots Rub YouTube The Wrong Way



"The Sex Life of Robots" trailer received many reviews across the blogosphere recently, despite being a still unfinished movie. The video clip featured, you guessed it, robots having sex. Apparently, the video clip had remained in the crevices of YouTube for almost a year before all the attention rubbed YouTube the wrong way and was pulled out. While we'd prefer to rub out to robots, internet entities seem to be not so keen on it. Regardless, Fleshbot points to alternative viewing sources for our pleasure.



New Rules For Robot Sex & Marriage



Robot sex hasn't outrun the mass media. Bill Maher (we don't watch him either) did a bit on "New Rules for Robot Sex & Marriage" on HBO. The new rules claim that if gays can't marry, than neither can robots. With a little AI research, "25 minutes alone with a vacuum cleaner", and probably a last minute "what do we have to take up time" filler, sex with robots may be the new "take my wife... please" jokes of today. We're officially cringing.

el_duderino2

el_duderino2

Kyrgyzstan
April 2006

OCT 16, 2007 04:31 AM

no thanks i'd rather make out with my marilyn monrobot.

StarBelliedBoy

StarBelliedBoy

Philadelphia, PA
December 2003

OCT 16, 2007 04:58 AM

el_duderino2 said:
no thanks i'd rather make out with my marilyn monrobot.



I'd prefer an Adrienne Barbeaubot with laser beam eyes and D-cups full of justice!

ardour

ardour

Ottawa, ON
March 2006

OCT 16, 2007 05:40 AM

It seems that everywhere I turn there's robot sex.

Heraclitus

Heraclitus

Denver, CO
December 2006

OCT 16, 2007 05:48 AM

I swear to god, it's just one more step to the USB port vagina.

CitizenD

CitizenD

Australia
April 2006

OCT 16, 2007 05:54 AM

Already fucked the photocopier today...

ohash

ohash

Columbus, OH
May 2007

OCT 16, 2007 06:35 AM

Ummmm...I don't care if it can move itself...STILL just as creepy as the real-dolls. I am convinced Real Dolls come to life at night and go on murderous rampages. The LAST thing we need is one of those with AI. Haha.

hawtp1nk

hawtp1nk

Fort Riley, KS
August 2007

OCT 16, 2007 08:38 AM

That's disgusting.

PaulNikon

PaulNikon

Melbourne, FL
February 2003

OCT 16, 2007 08:50 AM

Lucy Liubot, for the win.

ZenTrixter

ZenTrixter

Portland, OR
October 2002

OCT 16, 2007 08:59 AM

Heraclitus said:
I swear to god, it's just one more step to the USB port vagina.



You're very, very behind the times...

...as am I, apparently...

stax

stax

Morris Plains, NJ
December 2006

OCT 16, 2007 12:03 PM

i, for one, welcome our U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi sex-bot overlords.

orbro

orbro

New York, NY
July 2004

OCT 16, 2007 12:28 PM

YouTube prompted me to watch "More Human than Human" -- a Nazi promo -- after watching the U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi clip. This is fucked up on so many levels.

thrash242

thrash242

Pearland, TX
September 2004

OCT 16, 2007 12:58 PM

I can see robot sex. Robot marriage? Not until there's some damn sophisticated AI developed. Otherwise you might as well marry a RealDoll.

JuliusChurch

JuliusChurch

Ashland, PA
November 2005

OCT 17, 2007 01:23 AM

Where can I order an Audrey 22.1?

lavenir

lavenir

Turlock, CA
June 2007

OCT 17, 2007 02:21 PM

You have to clean the robot yourself. I can't imagine myself getting all hot when I've had to scrub some iof my own crust out of the robot's body. Not to mention that I wouldn't buy one in the first place.

Toxic

Toxic

SUICIDEGIRL

Oregon, USA

OCT 17, 2007 05:13 PM

el_duderino2 said:
no thanks i'd rather make out with my marilyn monrobot.



hahahaa that was great!