[quote=""Jamie Peck for The Gloss"]A British website is arousing backlash after circulating an ad that depicts a cute little robot happening upon some people doing sex stuff in a car. Whodathunkit?
The ad is for Confused.com, a site that purports to save those who drive on the wrong side of the road money on their car insurance. (Is it just me, or are the British great at naming things?) In it, the site’s spokesrobot Brian (Brian the robot? Again, brilliant name) happens upon a couple of motorists and, thinking they are not really busy, tries to help them find a better insurance plan. He can save them 225 of the Queen’s pounds! He then stands around awkwardly for a while, perhaps hoping they will thank him with some man-on-woman-on-robot action, but the couple isn’t into it (rude), so he rolls away.
[/quote]Original article:
http://www.thegloss.com/2013/07/11/sex- ... ntroversy/
The (controversial?) video:
Ok, this next one is actually about a video game, not a robot or doll, but whatever...Woman accused of hacking her virtual husband to death
Original article and photo:Graham Cluley for Naked Security at Sophos wrote:A Japanese player of the online interactive game "Maple Story" has been arrested by police after allegedly breaking into her virtual husband's account and killing his avatar.
According to media reports, the woman is suspected of carrying out the virtual murder after her fellow player and online love "divorced" her in the game without warning.
It sounds as though her 33-year-old Sapporo-based office worker victim (who no doubt was 6 foot 4, and rippling with muscles in the online game) was careless and shared too much information with his one-time internet lover, which helped her break into his account and kill his character when the relationship turned sour. He subsequently complained to police, who arrested the woman on Wednesday at her home in southern Miyazaki.
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2008/10 ... -to-death/
Japanese girls get their own exoskeletons
Original article:
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2013/07/japan- ... oskeleton/
ASIMO gets a taste of human nature; media forgets how to do journalism
Read the complete article to find out.Reno J. Tibke for Akihabara News wrote:On Wednesday, July 3, a third-generation ASIMO robot began a month-long stint greeting and interacting with guests at Tokyo’s Miraikan (“Future Pavillion,” roughly translated), or National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. Just one week in, a surprisingly large flock of, let’s call them technological chicken hawks, has swooped in to declare ASIMO’s awkward, confused performance a flop, an embarrassment for Honda, too much too soon, on and on (as foretold in last Friday’s JTFF). The bulk of the coverage has not been kind.
Nor accurate.
See, there’s this one detail that’s getting overlooked, a detail one might consider fundamentally, perhaps intrinsically relevant to any media coverage of the month-long exercise. Seems few got the memo, so here you go:
Contrary to coverage offered up by nearly every tech news source or column, ASIMO is not at the Miraikan to be a tour guide. ASIMO is not reporting to his first job. ASIMO is not there to demonstrate his latest physical skills or AI reasoning or to dance-monkey-dance for the adoring crowds. It’s not a performance. What then, someone who writes for a living ought to ask, is Honda’s flagship robot doing in Tokyo at the All Things Future Building?
Original article and photos:
http://en.akihabaranews.com/137266/robo ... journalism
Moving on...
Hot but safe robot sex with Daft Punk condoms
Chris Chambers for Heckler Spray wrote:Not content with just fancy action figures in their likeness, Daft Punk has partnered with condom-maker, Durex, to produce shiny, metallic-flavored rubbers that play selected arrangements from the Tron: Legacy soundtrack when you ejaculate. Like Tooth Tunes for the sexually active.
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http://www.hecklerspray.com/robot-sex-w ... 103674.php
And one more for the road...
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Original article and lots of great photos:Sherryl Connelly for The New York Daily News wrote:In 1973, The Who, Alice Cooper and Led Zeppelin changed history as new book, 'What You Want is in the Limo, details their road to debauchery.
Music journalist Michael Walker takes readers inside a year of sex, drugs and rock 'n roll.
Sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll became official in 1973 when the Who, Led Zeppelin and Alice Cooper took their acts on the road and the groupies thronged.
A new book, “What You Want is in the Limo” by Michael Walker, pinpoints it as the year the modern rock star was born.
“Welcome to 1973 — the year the sixties died,” he writes.
Walker, a music journalist, cites a seemingly endless list of classic albums released that year and big-name artists on tour that summer, but specifies that it was the Who’s Quadrophenia, Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy and Alice Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies tours that were the real game-changers.
“Three tours and three albums by three bands in this most definitive year stand out as exemplars for the times, and for the impact that 1973 wreaked on rock, its audiences, and the musicians themselves,” he writes.
“For the bands, fans, promoters, groupies, record companies, and drug dealers involved, life will never be the same.”
It was the Billion Dollar Babies tour that shocked the world, though. The album hit No. 1 on both sides of the Atlantic, but no one was ready for the stage show.
On an obscenely detailed, multilayered set, the floor strewn with female body parts ripped from mannequins, Cooper strutted around with a doll’s head attached to his crotch. He’d bring a hatchet down on its neck to release its grip. Blood oozed. The show ended with Cooper’s “execution” by guillotine, a bloody Alice “head” waved about for a finale.
On The Who tour, Keith Moon would carry a life-size inflatable sex doll onto the plane.
It was quite a year.
“What You Want is in the Limo” comes out July 23.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainmen ... -1.1398145
