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    Pet Care Robot Scares the Bejeezus Out of Fido While You're Away
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    Image of Ogami Ogami
    09/14/09

    In reply to Pet Care Robot Scares the Bejeezus Out of Fido While You're Away
    Why inventors like to give eyes to robots... robots don't need eyes.
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    Conrad promoted this comment Ogami was starred Ogami was unstarred
    Image of Conrad Conrad
    09/14/09

    @Ogami: also giving them human legs and trying to replicate our feet is just stupid. We are a poorly designed species, with many faults, why duplicate some of the obvious ones?
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    Image of Odin Odin
    09/15/09

    @Conrad: For fast efficient movement human legs definitely have their faults. However if you haven't noticed they grant us unparallled mobility in comparison to wheels.
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    09/14/09

    In reply to Pet Care Robot Scares the Bejeezus Out of Fido While You're Away
    Yes yes, but can it play funky 16-bit music?
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    Image of MavisPuford MavisPuford
    09/14/09

    @Bokusatsu_Tenshi:
    That's totally Toejam!

    I spent countless hours playing that game with my friends when I was younger. We would always go to the secret level 0 and hang out with the naked girls in the hot tub...It didn't even show anything but man, that was pretty intense when we were like 8 years old.
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    Image of SantawanaRubonius SantawanaRubonius
    09/14/09

    In reply to Pet Care Robot Scares the Bejeezus Out of Fido While You're Away
    They totally ripped this idea off the aliens from Explorers.
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    Image of GiltProto GiltProto
    09/14/09

    In reply to Pet Care Robot Scares the Bejeezus Out of Fido While You're Away
    This thing would be much better for a small parrot or parakeet. It even has a perch they could sit on.

    Come to think of it, maybe it I could use it at work to torment neighbors in adjacent cubicles!
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    Scotland promoted this comment Edited by GiltProto at 09/14/09 4:01 PM GiltProto was starred GiltProto was unstarred
    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    09/14/09

    In reply to Pet Care Robot Scares the Bejeezus Out of Fido While You're Away
    Mark, I've been known to see my cats sleeping on the couch, then log into my MediaPC, and using it's live view, VNC into the laptop on my coffee table, and play soundboards through it just to torment them.
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    Image of MyNameIsTooAwesome MyNameIsTooAwesome
    09/14/09

    In reply to Pet Care Robot Scares the Bejeezus Out of Fido While You're Away
    I think that thing is high as a kite.
    Either that or he saw what I did there.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    09/14/09

    In reply to Pet Care Robot Scares the Bejeezus Out of Fido While You're Away
    uhhhhhhh, if the person who designed this ever had a dog, it would include a gripper to hold onto the ball while you said through the speaker "Now drop it. Drop it. Drrrrrrrop it."
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    Image of Bertone77 Bertone77
    09/14/09

    In reply to Pet Care Robot Scares the Bejeezus Out of Fido While You're Away
    Looks too much like a bone, If I left that thing at home alone with my dog, the second it started moving on it's own my dog would gnaw it's eyeballs clean off.
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    09/14/09

    In reply to Pet Care Robot Scares the Bejeezus Out of Fido While You're Away
    the only way this would be remotely useful is if it could play with my cat without my intervention
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    Barry99705 promoted this comment f0rge was starred f0rge was unstarred
    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    09/14/09

    @f0rge: They call that "the other cat". Also, I'm pretty sure my 200 pound great dane would eat this. That's all I need. White speckled dog poop to clean up.
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    Edited by Barry99705 at 09/14/09 4:34 PM Barry99705 was starred Barry99705 was unstarred
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