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Commented on Funktionide hints at the future of body pillows
This was my thought as well, though I went to the widowed as the suddenly alone group. I'm not sure for people on business trips, but certainly for those who suddenly are sleeping alone and not yet able/ready to find...
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I keep hearing people harp on how Georgia's sex offender laws are restrictive and unreasonable, and how they mean people would never live there. I would encourage people to look at the laws in their own state and city. 22...
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If true, this is not a particularly good thing, though not the tragedy it is presented as. The CCC has tried to keep grain prices stable for 70 yrs and is not the "reserve" it is presented as in the...
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They tried controlling baking soda as a meth producing substancein Missouri not too long ago. As far as I know, it failed. But there was certainly outcry about it for a bit....

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pinehead commented on Funktionide hints at the future of body pillows
The video was really more of a slideshow, wasn't it? I get the impression this is purely conceptual. Besides, consider how much work would have to go into such a device in order to make it capable of shape-shifting into complex 3D forms, while still being sturdy enough to tolerate a full-grown human rolling over on it. While I don't feel any inclination towards porking a robot, I do think having a companion of some kind would be nice. We don't all live in situations that allow us to have pets, after all. In my line of work, for instance,...
Antinous / Moderator commented on Funktionide hints at the future of body pillows
Love Shack would have been a better musical choice....
rasz commented on Funktionide hints at the future of body pillows
I agree with previous poster suggesting a pet. Just get a Cat. He not only will breath, he will also love you unconditionally....
Eric Hunting commented on Funktionide hints at the future of body pillows
This is a startlingly close representation of a kind of robot I described in the early 90s called a 'cybershmoo' and which was briefly mentioned in Mark Dery's book Escape Velocity. At the time there was a brief craze in the techno-enthusiast community concerning the extremely lulz-worthy subject computer scientist Ted Nelson jokingly dubbed 'teledildonics'; telorobotic sex devices. A new technology emerging at the time was electro-reactive phase-change fluids which were being explored for applications like electrically driven car transmissions. Building on this with this running joke of a subject in various forum discussions, I envisioned this technology being combined...
occlupanid commented on Funktionide hints at the future of body pillows
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this, the entire video is faked movement. Watch the creature "breathing", and observe the edges of mister sleepy: he's being distorted by it because of 2D edge manipulation. He hasn't 'come up with' anything, other than the idea, it certainly doesn't breathe....

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