Geminoid-F: Stop Trying to Replace Us Japan

Why are the Japanese always trying to make humans obsolete?  I swear it's their national goal for some reason.

Engadget reports that roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro displayed the Germinoid-F humanoid this weekend, a life like woman robot that is designed to mimic human facial expressions that are fed into a computer.


It does this with a rubberized face that allows it to make subtle gestures that once seemed impossible for a robot to make.  Calm down nerds, it's still not acceptable to date a robot.

Here's the best/worst part, you can buy this robot as a robotic clone of yourself.  There's nothing quite like a creepy robot version of yourself.



Sure, this seems cool at first because it could do all the things you don't want to do such as jury duty, clean the bathroom, watch any movie by Nicholas Sparks, but it's only a matter of time until things go wrong.  Maybe the robot becomes a better and more likable version of you that your friends prefer.

Even worse, the robot could realize this and want to become the only you.  Then it's only a matter of time before it tries to kill you.  Probably, a good idea to make sure that it never watches "The Matrix" or "Highlander."

Doppelgangers are always dangerous, but robots are worse because they're like The Six Million Dollar Man version of yourself except it won't have shitty 70s technology and doesn't need to use a bionic sound to let you know that it's going to kick your ass.

When It's Okay to Eat Food Off the Floor

Courtesy of SF Weekly, a chart that helps you decide when you can eat food off the floor.  It seems to be a little too preoccupied with cats and food so I don't like the direction it's going in.

Unfortunately, it doesn't even address the most pressing question: When can you eat candy off the floor?  For instance,  you get some Skittles and rip the bag open only for precious red Skittles to fall to the floor.

Do you attempt to salvage them at the risk of losing other people's respect or just move on?


The choice is that much harder for children as they've yet to realize that all Skittles colors taste the same because each one is full of equal amounts of cavity-inducing sugar.

Before you go all architect from the Matrix on me to solve this problem, two student researchers already determined that it takes five minutes on the floor for bacteria to show up on Skittles.

So next time somebody judges you for eating that Skittle you dropped on the floor, blind them with science like their name was Thomas Dolby.  Of course it's still kind of a social faux pas, so maybe it's a good idea to continue not eating off the floor.

Besides, backing up any course of action with a Thomas Dolby reference doesn't make the strongest case.