AdeleneDawner comments on Existing Absurd Technologies - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Desrtopa 30 May 2011 06:12AM

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Comment author: atucker 30 May 2011 03:06:06PM *  13 points [-]

Cells (or if you like commentary, here).

Spray on skin.

Coffee ground hand.

I like to use milk as an example. We have industrial processes for squeezing a cow's udders so that it lactates, collecting the milk, pasteurizing and homogenizing it, and shipping it around the world. If you let milk rot and then treat it properly, you get cheese.

A few not too too weird things, that some people seem to appreciate.

Brain controlled catgirl ears.

There are so many robotic exoskeletons. The limiting factor on how many links was how long I felt like finding videos.

Comment author: Alicorn 30 May 2011 06:17:26PM 3 points [-]

Those catgirl ears are awesome.

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 30 May 2011 08:15:48PM 4 points [-]

They'd be more awesome if they were more accurate to real cat body language (hint: if a cat's ears go all the way down like that, do not pet it; it's angry, not relaxed), but if that's the most obvious objection they certainly still belong on the list.

Comment author: juped 01 June 2011 09:50:50PM 2 points [-]

I can forgive that, since cats express fairly complicated emotions with their body language which are probably beyond the current capability of miniaturized brain scanners. It seems, and I didn't bother to translate any of the Japanese website or anything, like that thing just measures general electrical activity levels.