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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[Just don't send these cuties to Canada or there won't be any left un-clubbed!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[YoJIMbo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 1:30PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[A $5000 seal robot for "therapy"? How much therapy can this thing do that a $5 plush seal can't?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chuckles McGee]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 1:44PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[Hey! we club becuase we care.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saad]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 23rd 2008 9:13PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[whatever.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 1:45PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[Say that fur looks soft enough to turn into a coat.  Where's my bat?<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[aeo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 1:31PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[put a bunch of these in a tank and they could write an episode of Family Guy.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Flashpoint]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 1:37PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[those were manatees]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jmiday]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 1:57PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[Is that 5,000 Yen?  Or did the dollar take a nose dive in the past week?  <br><br>I would rather get an Aibo on eBay.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[rcappo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 1:37PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[Therapeutic benefits: Paro vs. Japanese nurse.  Go!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[CaptSaltyJack]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 1:48PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[www.seashepherd.com help put an end to the slaughter]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Calibur]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 1:52PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[What's red and yellow and looks good on hippies?<br><br>Fire.<br><br>Thank you, I'm here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitress.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[JC]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 3:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[Our fate is sealed, we can all stop blubbering...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Heathen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 1:53PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[For $5000 it better cook and clean too.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 2:04PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[Give a white coat and a Canadian accent to a Tickle Me Elmo and give me the $4945 dollar difference.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Timmy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 2:14PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA["It's an award from the Army, Mother!  They put me on Hero Squad."]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hax Or]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 2:23PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[Be careful with that thing, or you'll get your hand bitten off by a "Loose Seal".<br><br>:-)<br><br>Mike]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 2:57PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[Buster always called it Army, never the Army, iirc]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[phanbouy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 2:57PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[why would they let his hook be so sharp anyway? momma lucille must have really wanted him to literally have no balls when he was getting all riled up thinking about neighbor lucille, the maid, or the roomba.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Anonymoose]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 3:17PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[the faux uniform he wore to the funeral was the best]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[phanbouy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 3:46PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[Army, that's right!  <br><br>And they're shipping out; no time for this now!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hax Or]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 3:57PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[I smashed thousand of it on Warcraft 2.<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Magallanes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 2:58PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[For five grands, I would prefer an army of Pleos than this thing...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[IndiaTech]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 3:10PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[Ship them all to Brigitte Bardot!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicolas Letarte]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 3:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[Does it vibrate? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Adamwho]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 7:06PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[I thought nursing homes were all about Wiihabilitation.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[tekdroid]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 7:59PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[For $5K they must fly you to Canada to club your own seal for covering...hence the therapeutic value, hiking, clubbing, skinning, then the obligatory sponge bath back at the old folks home... What will they think of next?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim A]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 9:18PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[I saw a documentary on this and other robots the other day.  There was this elderly woman who took what I would consider to be too much of a liking to it, but I couldn't understand why.  In terms of its behavior, I'd be hard pressed to believe that it was anything more than one of those toys you find at Toys R' Us which move every few seconds.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[peter_lu18]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 11th 2008 4:29AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/paro-robot-set-to-bring-its-healing-powers-to-the-us/</guid><description><![CDATA[Pet it if you're happy, club it if you're not. Either way it will continue loving you... or will it?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[bigwhitebear18]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 20th 2008 12:09PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>