Little Island promises to craft you in creepy robot form
By Donald Melanson 
posted February 5th 2009 2:56PM
posted February 5th 2009 2:56PM
Looking for a surefire conversation piece or guaranteed nightmares for weeks on end? Then you may want to take up Little Island's offer to create a tiny, custom robot version of you, which can apparently even be used as a VoIP phone of sorts to freak out family members when you're away. Unfortunately, the "robot" doesn't appear to actually have many true robot abilities, although it does have a built-in camera to let you check 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.
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What. The Hell.
Finally !!!!
a Mini-me =D
Its from Japan so:
1. Its hominid like so It probably defecates.
2. Its original purpose most likely was sexually oriented.
3. Like most Japanese products not carried by your local electronics store, it's scary.
Yeah I know I'm going to hell.
Make happy, go wonderful good time best! Doll is magical super rocket fun!
lol
I, for one, welcome our new Japanese dolly computer overlords.
I need 10,000.
$2000 is nothing for those of us who truly want to have sex with a miniature version of ourselves
I'd hit that...
I mean, I'd hit myself?!
@Tom
Please do hit yourself.
Or just go out (omg!) and find yourself a girl/guy for less than $2,000. It might sound scary, but it's always worth a try!
@Patriks7:
i dont know if I trust prostitutes that are less than $2000.
I can see this as a viable solution for parents who don't trust their children to drive alone. Strap a replica father doll in to the backseat facing forward, and your children will never truly have their independence! (Also: give them nightmares.)
I would say "Put Android on it!" but that has suddenly become a scary idea....
hey boss, de bots, de bots!
Not DNA involve? what a crap!
They look like XBL Avatars
You'd think by charging $2000 per "dall" they could afford a better web site and a real (human) interpreter.
Why use human when it's the very thing they wanted replace?
That would quickly become the most expensive item my beagle has ever destroyed. My former Apple Bluetooth Headset is currently the most expensive. :-)
Someone actually bought one of those?
I had a gift card from being ripped off on my first generation iPhone. :-)
That is the scariest F**king thing I've ever seen.
I'm actually more shocked by the variations of robot adsense ads that are on that page than the robot itself...
Chobits
go ahead and fade me out, this is my sense of humor...
They forgot a line, they forgot one pointing at the pussy hole. Hell if Im gonna spend 2grand on a doll, it better perform everything
What a pointless product. And for $2000 ? I don't think it will be very successful.