Comments on: Mankind achieves destiny — handless, mind-controlled channel changer

By: Gwillie

Gwillie — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 01:09:43 +0000

I can die tonight knowing that human kind has reached the pinnacle of devolvement.

By: Bradky

Bradky — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:08:19 +0000

Not sure this will enhance the state of marital bliss. Now when the wife asks her husband “Do I look fat in this?” and he, while answering “No honey you don’t look fat at all” the television is switching to a Roseanne Barr episode.

By: Kralizec

Kralizec — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:10:28 +0000

(1) Viewer thinks about changing channel from BBC1 to ITV1.
(2) Sensors in cap detect desire to change channel.
(3) Cap delivers painful electric shock to viewer.

By: Tantor

Tantor — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 03:41:16 +0000

Thank god for science! My fingers were EXHAUSTED from having to pick up the remote and actually PUSH BUTTONS to change a channel like some animal.

Now I’d like them there scientists to find a way to pipe the History Channel directly into my cerebral cortex so that I don’t have to do all that labor of raising my eyelids to watch TV.

By: sonnyspats1

sonnyspats1 — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 02:14:27 +0000

Sheesh. Why keep the TV so far away. Why not just implant microchips directly into the brain to be activated by a transmitter from a satellite. This would eliminate the remote completely. The helmet could be lightened if made from a much thinner foil type of material. You know like tin foil hats… Oh never mind.

By: Liberty or Death

Liberty or Death — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 02:10:17 +0000

That’s all well n’ good, but will it get me a cold one, and a bag o’potato chips?

franksalterego on June 22, 2007 at 7:50 PM

Isn’t that what the wife or girlfriend is for….?

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Hideous Jetsons-esque receptionist robot now for rent in Japan

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:54:18 +0000

[...] A thousand bucks a day, or $13,000 to own free and clear. (Can that be right?) Combine this with the proletarian dronebot and in 30 years you’re looking at profit margins big enough to fly a jet through and an unemployment rate of about 85%. And of course, the 15% who do have jobs will be working entirely with their minds. [...]

By: profitsbeard

profitsbeard — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:34:32 +0000

I meant “lo-tech” (not “lo-yech“) but Freud knows best.

By: Kini

Kini — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:31:01 +0000

Barkolounger toilet, the next great invention!

By: profitsbeard

profitsbeard — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:30:31 +0000

robblefarian-

…the defecation osmosis machine is invented.

The lo-yech version is already here… called “Depends”.

(See: “killer lady astronaut on cross-country trip“.)

Q- Would a schizophrenic need a split screen?

By: robblefarian

robblefarian — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:21:47 +0000

Laugh now, but wait until defecation osmosis machine is invented. You’ll never have to leave your couch.

By: Kini

Kini — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:05:21 +0000

And you want an iPhone.

By: stonemeister

stonemeister — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:48:31 +0000

Well, this is a great improvement to the forty-two 3″ probes I currently have implanted in my brain to adjust the horizontal hold on my TV!

By: SailorDave

SailorDave — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:23:55 +0000

Sad to know that when I think How stupid can people be?, my television will automatically switch to Olberman.

By: CP

CP — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:23:22 +0000

Jedi powers, you shall have, mmm.

By: Theworldisnotenough

Theworldisnotenough — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:22:53 +0000

Exit question: Thanks to the clumsy, cumbersome brainwave skullcap, isn’t this really the Microsoft Surface of handless technology?

Did you turn on Surface just because of one video?

By: lorien1973

lorien1973 — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:51:47 +0000

that’s what yesterday’s robots are for.

By: franksalterego

franksalterego — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:50:54 +0000

That’s all well n’ good, but will it get me a cold one, and a bag o’potato chips?

By: lorien1973

lorien1973 — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:47:03 +0000

In the year 2525 comes even more closer to reality:

In the year 2525
If man is still alive.
If woman can survive, they may find.

In the year 3535
Ain’t gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies.
Everything you think, do and say, is in the pill you took today.

In the year 4545
Ain’t gonna need your teeth, won’t need your eyes.
You won’t find a thing to chew.
Nobody’s gonna look at you.

In the year 5555
Your arms hanging limp at your sides.
Your legs got nothing to do.
Some machine doing that for you.

In the year 6565
Ain’t gonna need no husband, won’t need no wife.
You’ll pick your son, pick your daughter too.
From the bottom of a long glass tube. Whoa-oh

http://www.metrolyrics.com/in-the-year-2525-lyrics-zager-and-evans.html

By: lorien1973

lorien1973 — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:44:47 +0000

I wanna get 2 of them and have a battle of wills with my wife.

By: RW Wacko

RW Wacko — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:44:16 +0000

Now we need to interface this with the humping robots.

By: fusionaddict

fusionaddict — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:42:59 +0000

YES! LET THE ATROPHY BEGIN!!!

By: rw

rw — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:31:36 +0000

They can make a mind reading cap, but they can’t do a wireless connection to the remote? Why not just build a universal remote into the cap? The ultimate application of this technology will be thought based gameplay on the PS4.

By: The Ugly American

The Ugly American — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:22:23 +0000

That teaser pic is a friggin’ hoot.

By: heatherrc77

heatherrc77 — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:22:19 +0000

It would be great to see what would happen if/when the person wearing the helmet fell asleep with it on….