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RoboSapien

Started by frizzlefry Oct 12, 2004 at 1:07 PM 17 replies 1.7k views

Original Post

Oct 12, 2004 at 1:07 PM

Dave and Kevin got a RoboSapien to take to XGDX. Kevin didn't have room to get him back to FL, so we're keeping him here. For $70 USD (at Costco), this is a fun guy! He dances, picks stuff up, walks and talks. We played with him for about an hour last night, and I'm sure the kids will want to get him out again when they get home from school. He should work great as a bribe to get homework done! I hope!

Promit

Oct 12, 2004 at 1:09 PM

[lol][lol][lol][lol][lol]

That is AWESOME.

CpMan

Oct 12, 2004 at 1:17 PM

Pelvic Thrust!

Ravuya

Oct 12, 2004 at 1:21 PM

You can tear his head off and replace it with a PocketPC to make it run faster, better, more awesomely.

caffeineaddict

Oct 12, 2004 at 1:21 PM

I saw one at Best Buy the other day. Looks cool, but I don't want to drop $70 on it right now.

Zul

Oct 12, 2004 at 1:25 PM

I too saw one at Best Buy, but the batteries on the demo one were burnt out of course :(

CpMan

Oct 12, 2004 at 1:28 PM

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Original post by Ravuya
You can tear his head off and replace it with a PocketPC to make it run faster, better, more awesomely.

That, is awesome.

Ravuya

Oct 12, 2004 at 1:34 PM

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Original post by Ravuya
You can tear his head off and replace it with a PocketPC to make it run faster, better, more awesomely.

That, is awesome.

You can probably do the same with a Palm Pilot or a wireless receiver linked through wifi to your laptop.

Rob Loach

Oct 12, 2004 at 4:23 PM

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Original post by Ravuya
You can tear his head off and replace it with a PocketPC to make it run faster, better, more awesomely.

Looks more like an alien too!

coldacid

Oct 12, 2004 at 4:26 PM

I for one welcome our new HPC-controlled overlords.

Andrew Russell

Oct 12, 2004 at 6:51 PM

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I for one welcome our new HPC-controlled overlords.

lol++

mlambert

Oct 12, 2004 at 6:56 PM

Wow, they've been available over here for a good 3 months now, my GF used to work at Gadget Shop which now have the limited edition silver versions...

I played with them for a while, but they got very boring very quickly...until the new HPC-controlled overlords come into play anyway!

Marc.

Cibressus

Oct 12, 2004 at 10:36 PM

don't force your kids into doing homework, when they start failing grades and being laughed at by thier classmates for being dumb they'll know why, just make shure you let them know your thier to help....i wish my dad would do that for me:(

Hedos

Oct 12, 2004 at 11:06 PM

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Original post by Cibressus
don't force your kids into doing homework, when they start failing grades and being laughed at by thier classmates for being dumb they'll know why, just make shure you let them know your thier to help....i wish my dad would do that for me:(

He should have done that for your english courses at least.

[wink]

Drevay

Oct 13, 2004 at 4:02 AM

Yah, some kid won one on The Screen Savers, looked pretty cool.

frizzlefry

Oct 13, 2004 at 10:20 AM

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Original post by Cibressus
don't force your kids into doing homework, when they start failing grades and being laughed at by thier classmates for being dumb they'll know why, just make shure you let them know your thier to help....i wish my dad would do that for me:(

He should have done that for your english courses at least.

[wink]

I don't have to force my kids to do homework. They have Dave's giant brains. They would rather take tests than have a day off school.
They are NUTS. But, they're smarties. All of them have skipped a grade, and the 5-year-old is doing 4 digit addition in his head, so it's all good!

We actually saw the RoboSapien for the first time in England when we were there for ECTS and EGN. He was a great attention getter at the conferences!

vNistelrooy

Oct 13, 2004 at 10:27 AM

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Original post by frizzlefry
I don't have to force my kids to do homework. They have Dave's giant brains. They would rather take tests than have a day off school.
They are NUTS. But, they're smarties. All of them have skipped a grade, and the 5-year-old is doing 4 digit addition in his head, so it's all good!

We actually saw the RoboSapien for the first time in England when we were there for ECTS and EGN. He was a great attention getter at the conferences!

They *gasp* LIKE school. No smart person likes school. Come on. I'm teh smartest, I don't do anything at school (means last time I did homework was 2+ years ago), yet I'm already two years in University.

frizzlefry

Oct 14, 2004 at 2:55 AM

Sadly enough, that is all too often true. This is probably not the place for me to get started on how American public schools (and possibly other countries. . .) are forcing our brightest students into lackluster and mediocre performance.

Then, there's the whole discussion of what other options there are and how to fix the problem. . .

$fractoid$

fractoid

Oct 14, 2004 at 3:07 AM

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Original post by vNistelrooy
They *gasp* LIKE school. No smart person likes school. Come on. I'm teh smartest, I don't do anything at school (means last time I did homework was 2+ years ago), yet I'm already two years in University.

Yuo hush there, poppet! ;) They're still young, most kids don't realize that school is horribly sucky and repetitive until year 3 or 4 (when they're still doing the same stuff they did in year 2, only a little more so).

Obviously by then they'll have discovered something more cool than school (like moderating gamedev.net, for instance ;)

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