InterRobot's tissue-dispensing robot smiles while you sneeze
By Darren Murph 
posted Mar 16th 2007 10:47PM
posted Mar 16th 2007 10:47PM
Let's face it, not everyone has the technical abilities to convert their Xbox 360 into a tissue dispenser, and moreover, it's not the most portable method of carrying around sniffle rags. Never fear, however, as the nation so well known for kicking out robotic servants is at it yet again, and this time around InterRobot Inc. is offering up a mechanical being to serve up handy tissue packs to the ill public that it runs into. The Mospeng-kun robot sports a human-esque design, the ability to wheel around and meet sickly individuals, and a continually smiling face that greets folks before personally handing them a pack of nose napkins. No word on what else the company plans on dispensing care of robotic employees, but considering they'll run you (or your business) around $835 for a five day rental, we'd probably reserve this option solely for the flu season.[Via CNET]
Robots are good at cleaning up? I'm sure it could be used for more than a runny nose. I wonder if it makes any other faces?
- Josh
Where's your head at? - http://www.StateOfBrain.com
If I saw that thing, I would just have to flip it off. It looks so flip offable.
If I saw that thing, I would just have to flip it off. It looks so flip offable.
This isn't for sickly individuals - it's for street marketing in the big shopping districts. Instead of handing out the preverbial "you throw this away for me" flyer we're familar with in the states, shops advertize by people handing out tissue packs near thir business with a small flyer on top -usually with a map to where they are at, since the roads are like a big plate of noodles over there. The tissues are useful, so people are much less inclined to chuck them, and see the message later on as well when they open them. My frineds visit the shopping districts, and come back with 5 or 10 different advertising tissues a trip. I imagine hiring a robot to pass them out (5 day rental - a work week?) gets some wow factor, as well as making sure the person you hired to hand them out didn't dump them in a drain and walk off.
-- John
i could see these ever smiling glorified tissue boxes causing the same fear in children that clowns did for older generations
I'm going to kill someone the next time i accidentally double post on this website.
I, for one , welcome our tissue-dispensing overlords.
~JYH
They won't be smiling when they are our overlords.
Its the happy mac, but what have they done to it?