Ahhh, the Japanese — always ten steps ahead of the Western world when it comes to 3 things: scat and vomit-oriented sexual fetishes (look out, Germany!), advanced robotics and all things adorably cute. Their new RIBA (“Robot for Interactive Body Assistance”) robot now combines 2 of their virtuosities into one great technological leap for the incompetently shit-faced. What is there not to like? It looks like a bear, and it carries you to bed when you polish off that fifth of tequila cos your girl left you after catching you masturbating to robot porn.
I see zero downside to this.
The RIBA is an upgrade to the original RI-MAN, and similar to the BEAR robot, only taking its name to the appropriate level. The RIBA can carry up to 135 pounds, which may work in Japan but that’s certainly not gonna carry any drunk I know. Hmmmmm, maybe it could just sweetly and gently pull me to bed by my ankles…
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One thing I’d like to say is before buying more laptop or computer memory, take a look at the machine into which it is installed. If the machine will be running Windows XP, for instance, the particular memory limit is 3.25GB. Setting up in excess of this would simply constitute a new waste. Make certain that one’s mother board can handle your upgrade volume, as well. Good blog post.