Or more to the point, what are we inventing and to what end? Do we really need all of this shit?

My nieces were playing an Eye-Toy game recently which involved cleaning windows. You had to clean the windows really quickly in order to score. I asked why they don’t clean the real windows instead, and they all just looked at me like I was the oldest thing they’d ever seen.

Eye-toy and Wii sound like cool ideas for kids toys, but Adult applications conjure up all sorts of horrible possibilities. I have as much pervert in me as the next person, but this virtual life industry is really beyond the pale, particularly the plastic sex industry.

Teledildonics is where we are headed. Dildonics are electronic sex toys; the Tele- is added for the remote or Cyber use and control of them. It’s fake sex, Virtual sex and I guess it illustrates that one who needs them has only a Virtual Life.

I wrote about Real Dolls recently after seeing a documentary about men who prefer “Synthetic Women” to “Organic Women”. These Real Dolls are inert lumps of skilfully moulded plastic. They all resemble porn stars and Pamela Anderson (same thing?!?) and just lie there whilst these geeks treat them in ways I don’t care to imagine.

As a result of seeing the program “Love Me, Love My Doll”, I decided to research Real Dolls and one of the individuals in the show, a lonely soul named Davecat. Like many people Davecat has a Blog, and he shares it with his Synthetic lover, pictures of whom appear on the site in various states of undress and activity.

Davecat recently saw an article that I also saw, regarding robotic breakthroughs in Japan. Imagine the possibilities. These robots can talk and respond to commands almost replicating human behaviour. Facial expressions, voices and movements are all very lifelike, but still spooky.

Combine this with Real Dolls and Hondas latest robotic breakthroughs around robot mobility and you have a walking (running), talking, rooting, machine. Who needs to get out there and meet people when you can order one online?

As all of this stuff takes over, are we all going to turn into Davecat? He seems a perfectly nice enough person, but he has grown used to not dealing with real people. We can all do so much now without dealing with real individuals that we forget how to behave. This can turn quickly into fear and dread, until we long for solitude and a virtual word in which we are the controller.

I find the real world pretty scary as it is. Meeting people is hard and sex is a minefield, but surely a world with no skin is even scarier.

Teledildonics

Teledildonics on Wiki

Researchers move ever closer to making mechanical versions of us.

Honda’s robot is now faster, friendlier

Now, long time readers will know of Donnie’s love of a good whiteboard post. (For a quick refresher, see here, or perhaps here). Well, the guys over at UPS must have loved those posts! Their new advertising campaign… features a guy writing stuff on a whiteboard! They’re ripping you off Don-Don! We should sue them for royalties or some such thing! To check out the UPS rip-offs, either click on the link below to view the vid through Goo-Tube, or alternatively visit the UPS site.

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