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therawfeed.com - 2/5/2009

Company Makes Custom Robot Version of You

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A Japanese company called Little Island will sell you a $2,215 robot based on a picture you send. It's your own personal "Mini-Me," but it doesn't do much other than engage in conversation (the mouth doesn't move or anything), read your RSS feeds for you and makes VoIP calls. It's based on ...

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youtube.com - 2/5/2009

Little Island Custom Robot Dolls (video)

— youtube.com — Read more at http://littleisland.biz/english/index.htm (more) Little Island Custom Robot Dolls (video)

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techchee.com - 2/8/2009

Japanese company makes Mini-Me robotic-version of you

— techchee.com — If you’re a lonely geek , you may love the idea of having a Mini-Me robotic version... of you to accompany you, or to help you out with some simple daily tasks. The Japanese company, Little Island, creates a robot based on the picture you send ... (more) Japanese company makes Mini-Me robotic-version of you

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Little Island promises to craft you in creepy robot form
Engadget — ... out its surroundings via a connected computer, and it's apparently able to do a few basic tasks like read your RSS feeds or check the weather. The bot is also essentially just a plush PC itself (complete with a 500MHz Geode processor), so there's certainly plenty of opportunity to expand its capabilities for those so inclined. At over $2,000, however, it doesn't exactly come cheap, and you'll have to wait upwards of six weeks after sending in your picture to receive it. [Via The Raw Feed] ...

Buy Your Own 'Mini-Me' Robot [Robots]
Gizmodo — ... robot. A Japanese company named Little Island is selling custom robots for $2,215. You send in a photo and a small mountain of money and they'll mail back a robot that can learn your voice before connecting via LAN to read your RSS aloud. It also features a camera, 80GB of storage, 512MB RAM, multiple servos and can double as a VOIP handset...a very large, disturbingly asexual VOIP handset. [Little Island via The Raw Feed] ...

Creepy Japanese Doll Impersonates its Owner
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... content to you via RSS feed. So, answer our question: Is it creepy enough for you? No? Then try this. The doll will read the text to you ("today's weather and fortune-telling, etc.") in your own voice. That's right. It's the ultimate skin-crawling freakout. And if you're still not perturbed, might we suggest hitting a few of the links below, where you will find the spookiest moments from Gadget Lab's history. Product page [Little Island via RAW Feed] See Also: Video: Creepy Robot Brings Westworld ...

Japanese company makes Mini-Me robotic-version of you
TechChee.com, shop online for gadget, gizmo and hot tech stuff — ... a 500MHz processor and it runs Windows XP as the operating system. The little robot has a 80g solid state drive, a speaker, a webcam and various sensors and servos, and there is a power cord and Ethernet cable attached to its butt. It’s also loaded with voice recognition and speech synthesis software that make it able to emulate your voice after you teach it. A video of the little doll in action is as follows: therawfeed Written By TechChee.com : Japanese company makes Mini-Me ...