You can buy a "artificial intelligence", which could be your life partner. true, true.
Gatebox touted as a virtual home robot. It creates an image of the character, with whom you can "talk", such as Siri. The robot is connected to the Internet, so before you leave home can report suspected sediments. Equipped with a plurality of sensors, can control home air conditioning or lighting. You can even communicate with him at a distance, over the network.
Generally, you can tell a lot about it, but it is better to view the next infomercial.
Now it takes on a whole new dimension, is not it? The advertisement virtual toy acquires human traits, replacing the living partner. This vision is a sad and disturbing.
certainly, Robots of this type can provide invaluable assistance to the elderly or sick, but advertising is clearly directed towards the lonely people. If the device developers would thus make an impression on the viewer, then surely they succeeded.
Specification Gatebox "is represented as follows:
- The size: 220 x 360 x 520 mm;
- Weight: 5 kg;
- resolution of the projector: 1280 x 720;
- Speakers: stereo;
- sensors: camera, microphone, touch buttons, Motion Sensor, heat, humidity and light intensity;
- link: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and IK;
- ports: minijack (Headphone), HDMI и LAN;
- Support for smartphones: iOS и Android;
- Tongue: Japanese.
device cost is about 3059 dollars. Gateboks still can buy by reservation only volunteers from Japan and the US. While Gatebox has only one character - a girl Azuma Hikari.
A source: http://navro.org