Originally Posted by Schwab

It is real, read up on it. All it needs is something to push air against two membranes that vibrate and something to adjust the tension of the membranes...voila, a trumpet player.

I was in Japan a few years ago and while I didn't see the Asimo play the trumpet, I did see one in action at the science museum in Tokyo. It is a pretty amazing piece of technology. I want one. Bad.

Originally Posted by Miyot

I feel like Cap,n Kirk on that episode where the M5 takes control of the Enterprise, I'm cap,n Dunsel I guess

Originally Posted by godchaser

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We-ll... not so sure there BW. They got some Babe-Bots coming out that'll knock our socks off. :) Seems like they held the first think-tank in Japan last year, trying to outline the moral legalities of Robotics. So called sex-slaves being just the beginning of the headaches. This with the understanding that human-equivalent intelligence in machines, (and far beyond) is a hop and'a skip from today. Not that such adequate programming can't be droned down as well.

To hear it told; by more than just a few in the tech-know hussle. We'll be taking full advantage of Robotics as well. Mind upload anyone- Literal immortality something you'd care to partake- :) One of the seeming advantages would be our synthetic skin for example, that can be made far more sensitive to touch. As well, performance pleasure enhanced to unimagined heights. Wheeeew; that sounds like some serious spikes in paternity suits waiting to happen. And if better than human synthetics don't suit our birthday style, we can opt for Diamonoid or Ruby chassis' too. Virtually indestructible, and if we did happen to explode when the earth moved, no worries. We got backups that'll have us downloaded back in our spare chassis in a flash. All a part of the warranty, you understand.

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'..so it's all mechanics now. or was it ever anything otherwise?'

Suppose not Drew- the mechanics of nature's no less human than machine?

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