Vol. 08: I, Pleo

Can a machine have a soul? Can it think? Can it laugh and cry, bug you for a snack, tease you, or curl up on your couch and dream robotic dreams? Can you build such a machine? And can you sell it for $250?

By Robert Luhn

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So, they'll be able to communicate with each other via infrared (or whatever). Will they be able to discuss their treatment and plan to overthrow the abusive owner? Will "toys" be the first linked nueral network? Will all "things" able to communicate be able to form a vast, omnipresent entity?
What will become of us - led to our own demise as a species by our playthings!!!
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Try to google up info on a "tactile network" devised in Japan, whereupon devices on your person communicate through your dermis when you touch someone else similarly outfitted. Great possibilites (a little scary, also - transmit viruses to your devices through human contact!!)
Also look up wireless power transmission. I think both of these can be found on NASA's Tech Briefs.
Posted by justmakeme on November 29, 2006 at 10:43:06 Pacific Time

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