This robotic sunflower's LED seeds will cure you of that spitting habit in no time
By Paul Miller 
posted August 17th 2009 2:36AM
posted August 17th 2009 2:36AM
posted August 17th 2009 2:36AM
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"We've performed some very careful, scientific research on the movement of sunflowers that one time on lunch break where we stared at a sunflower for four or five minutes, and let us tell you: it's pretty boring."
Huh?
Because sunflowers turn towards the sun?
I can't possibly think of any sort of purpose for this thing. It's a waste of atoms.
I, for one, welcome our robotic sunflower overlords.
Well how about this; put mirrors on them and possibilities start to emerge, solar heaters, self-admiring people, and if they are in unison and directed at an angle you can get a nice weird optical illusion effect.
Or connect them to a LCD and it slowly keeps pointing at you without making you nervous with rapid movement.
Ah, the old robotic overlords line, used wayyy to much
Looks kinda creepy. Imagine a bunch of cybernetic sunflowers staring silently, turning in unison as you walk past. Multiplying, unnoticed, until one day you're alone, you turn around, and thousands of these are staring at you.
"...staring silently, turning in unison as you walk past. Multiplying, unnoticed, until one day you're alone, you turn around, and thousands of these are staring at you."
This is more or less what I aspire to do in life.
What you describes makes me think of an old tv-series "The Trifids". However it would have been more interesting if the petals moved...
War of the World, man.
That's a Death Ray.
humhumhumhum BZZZZZAPPPPOWWWWW!!!!
I would buy one if you could show it a list of guest you don't like and when the flowers sees him, it just squirts him some ink or bites him something like that. "hi Jessica, oh let me get your coa... oh... hi Tom... sure let me get your coat too, so you got out of work early so you could also come... great... flower, say hi, here's TOM!
ZOMG! That's so fuckin creepy....
Whats creepy is the voice of the woman describing it, or whatever. Talk about monotone...
Portal II: GLaDOS's resurrection
I don't know why you need to resurrect something which is still alive.
aaah, you know too much!! For the Aperture facilities were apparently destroyed with GLaDOS inside, and now, look, she returns as a pretty, yellow sunflower...
I hope this helps bring back the robotic bee overlord population.
It's Bob the Angry Flower!
What about my spitting habit? There's no mention of that in the article :(
Where's the switch to turn on the destructive laserbeam cannon?
There is no use at all for a robotic sunflower... Come on, imagine u walking in the forest or where ever. Then a robotic sunflower talks to u saying, "YO WHATS UP???" What will u be thinking?
I don't know about curing spitting habits, but it might let you in to see Jabba the Hutt.
Weren't these in Larry Niven's "Ringworld"?
Well, it's a tribute then (I Think you are right, they were indeed in some scifi book if I recall correctly).
Buy a sunflower, then a peashooter, rinse and repeat.
Feed me Seymour...