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Do you have a Roomba? Have you ever said to yourself, "Boy, I love that it vacuums up my living area without any work on my part, but what would be nice is if it depended on me emotionally"? If so, you're in for a treat, because Sharp is releasing the Cocorobo, a highly advanced Roomba on crack with also crippling emotional needs. You'll have to speak to and/or use the Cocorobo every day to keep it happy, or... well, I don't know, because the video sinisterly doesn't answer this question. Does it stop cleaning? Does it hide your car keys? If you ignore it for too long, will it jump into your bathtub while you're showering to attempt a murder-suicide pact? Or does it simply use its advanced cleaning capabilities to make sure no trace of your body is ever found again? Thanks to Ken_Shiro for the tip.
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It's from Japan. Just be glad that you don't have to fuck it in order to get your carpets cleaned.
It could also have a big, emotionally-responsive mechanical butt, so don't complain.
all i want is a sound free vacuum, for eveytime i go to watch something my other half turns the loud fecking thing on
If you got 16 of them, painted 4 each red, yellow, green and blue. You could play one wild ass game of Twister.
And I thought the Jared Diamond commercial about the female-voiced car navigation system that gets upset with the driver and locks him in his own car was silly... NOW I have to speak kindly to my robotic vacuum cleaner? (Robot Vacuum)- "AM-I-DOING-A-GOOD-JOB?" (Me)- "Uhhhh!... Yes. A real good job..." (Robot Vacuum)- "SOB... YOU-ARE-JUST-SAYING-THAT... SOB SOB SOB"... Not anytime soon: I couldn't even stand those tamagoci/digital pets that were hot years back..
Now people wont look at me like im crazy while they ask "Why are you talking to your vacuum cleaner?"
One day I am going to on vacation, and on that day my Watchmen toaster will become so distressed by my disappearance that it will convince my free standing lamp, the electric blanket under my sheets, my iPod, and my Cocorobo to go on an adventure to find me.
...Congratulations, Rob. I don't have a will, but after reading this I'm going to make one up that's going include provisions for the care of both my household appliances and my childhood toys because I can take only so much stress worrying about them ending up in junkyards. I really hope you're satisfied with yourself.
Oh yeah... I get it... "The Brave Little Toaster 2"... EEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If THAT vacuum cleaner has a pain in all of the diodes on its' left side, I'm going to use a sledgehammer on it. Marvin wound up wiping out entire worlds.
This seems like a contest opportunity.
Cocorobo breakup emails? Things your Cocorobo does to make your life miserable?
It sounds like a vacuum cleaner version of Beemo. Now I'm gonna feel bad when I drunkenly step on it after a late night out. Damned cute appliances.
Came for this, leaving satisfied.
All other Roomba's pale in comparison to DJ Roomba, or Undead DJ Roomba.
what, nothing zoo? where's the PENIS? the ungodly/cthutluesque sexual drippage?
:(
well, does this technological emo trainwreck at least chop the onions?
So it spends all day cleaning and has crippling emotional needs....sounds like my ex-girlfriend.
I think it's safe to say I'm still a little bitter from the whole ordeal...it was pretty bad for both parties involved. So I figured I'd be the mature one and take vague snipes at her using the anonymity of the internets. I can kinda be a douche like that sometimes.
At least ex-girlfriends need sleep. Just imagine if you left this thing on when you went to bed, going around your bedroom vacuuming as it whines you no longer look it in the screen.
Then morning comes and you are left wondering where it went, only to find it cleaning your best friend's carpet...
On the whole, I would rather have a dog and have to clean up after it than a needy machine that would probably do a half-assed job anyways.
So were going to get an emotional attachment to our vacuums now, (not the one JeffJefftyJeff was talking about above) but a emotional connection. This is a horrible idea. People holding on to their dead vacuums because they can't bare to part with it. People living alone gathering other peoples vacuums to have emotional contact with something. Hundreds of them in a small house with.................HOLY COW!! Japan figured out how to help hoarders be cleaner in their lifestyle!!
Did anyone else read the first sentence and a half and think the article was going to be about a vacuum cleaner/sex toy from perverted Japan?
Yeah, but do it wrong and you have to explain exactly what happened to the paramedics. Probably not worth the risk.
Dear god I hope I never get so lonely that I want one of these......WHERE'S ORDER THE LINK BRICKEN?
No comment about the Wow! signal? :)
it's a robot which relates to scifi which relates to aliens. not too big of a jump.
Actually I feel like I'm getting over it, writing a bit of fiction on the subject helped - it always does.
And this vacuum cleaner actually seems like something I would enjoy, although I'm not sure about every appliance in the house being like this. I can imagine getting home with all the appliances welcoming me and asking how my day was would make me a bit... unhingedier.
