WARNING: This blog contains opinions, rants, and bad language and even a few moments of sincerity. Welcome to my world.
I’m a geek. I admit that. I own more websites than I have fingers (maybe toes too, if you count domain names without homes.) But ZENO , the new robot from Hanson Robotics just creeps me out to high heaven.
Maybe this is why:
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| CHUCKY | ZENO |
And in addition to being creepily adorable, according to the website, he “sees, hears, talks and remembers who you are”. So he’s a little stalker. I had always envisioned being stalked by someone tall, dark, handsome, and as obsessed with Boston Cream Pie as I am, but I suppose fantasty rarely meets reality, and I’ve probably got the best chances with this lightning-eyebrowed chucky thing.
If this isn’t enough, Hanson is developing a line called Humankind. Info from website: “Our bio-inspired HumanKind robots are world renowned for their amazing interactivity and conversational capabilities, which has placed them at the leading edge of life-like technologies in both appearance and behavior.”
Human-like behaviour? Great. This means we have a whole NEW race of drama-queens to deal with who leave snarky comments, stalk your websites, calls your mother and tell her you’re either losing or gaining weight (whichever will distress her more.. my mother freaks out at either situation)… they’ll probably make Humankind reality shows, and then next thing you know those metal-heads will start blogging about how to make money blogging.
P.S. I just noticed as I was finishing this up that ZENO already has his own blog .
This isn’t a paid blog post, but it really really shoulda been. Somebody owes me a pie.
I've blogged about many many things in many many different places all over the web. It's exhausting. So instead I'm bringing it all together in one place, and hope that those of you I know and love won't mind if I natter about techie stuff, knitting, writing, or crack some wiseass remarks about random topics. Let's call it... holistic blogging. 
I can see what you mean, it’s something about those eyes. They. Are. Watching. You.
I’ve wondered what that annoying pop group Hanson was up to these days. Now I know: developing bio-inspired HumanKind robots.
Oh gosh, I hope the robots don’t sing…
YIKES!
Makes me want to be sure there is a GOD so I can plead, “The Human Race has gone completely insane! Heaven Help Us!”
Otherwise, I’m left with a firm understanding and reliance upon chemistry and physics and at the mercy of near-human inventors.
Seriously. If they came out with a “Human-Unlike” or an “Inhuman Like” or even a “Not Like Human” model, I’d be the first in line.
PS- Have never seen a “Chucky” movie for fear it would give me nightmares. Don’t watch the nightly news for the same reason.
Yikes is right. That thing is scary looking!! Shudder!!
If it will do my ironing, washing up and scrub the toilets, I’m all for it. What the heck? I can always magic marker its eyes out if it is giving me the creeps.
I do like the new pink layout. It’s gurlie, but not so gurlie that you would think the author is a sissy like you find with some of the ‘fluffy’ blogs which are heaving with pastels, hearts, bells, roses and pictures of ‘cute’ animals.
Aargh, it’s creepy. I wouldn’t trust that thing in my house or anywhere else. I imagine it lurking in the night with a butcher’s knife in one hand! :S
its funny. i dunno which doll is scarrier.