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November 10, 2006
End Partisan Squabbling
We have a shared enemy.
Researchers at NEC System technologies and Mie University have designed the cute little guy to the right: a metal man gastronomist, "an electromechanical sommelier", capable of identifying wines, cheeses, meats and hors d'oeuvres. Upon being given a sample, he will speak up in a childlike voice and identify what he has just been fed. The idea is that wineries can tell if a wine is authentic without even opening the bottle, amongst other more obscure uses...like "tell me what this strange grayish lump at the back of my freezer is/was."Sure, they seem cute and harmless, but they think we taste like bacon. Needless to say, this is not good. Time to rise up and fight the robot menace. (Thanks to my brother for the link, and the inevitable nightmares it will cause.)But when some smart aleck reporter placed his hand in the robot's omnivorous clanking jaw, he was identified as bacon. A cameraman then tried and was identified as prosciutto.
Posted by slublog at November 10, 2006 10:41 PM
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Posted by: Dan Pete at November 11, 2006 08:18 PM
And to think I was beginning to think I might end up tasting like, "I Can't Believe It's NOT Bacon!"
Whew, we sneaked by this one by the skin of our teeth, eh?!
Posted by: David Drake at November 11, 2006 08:33 PM
There's a Soylent Green joke to be made, but I don't know how to word it.
Posted by: Barry at November 11, 2006 10:57 PM
Humans, the other white meat.
Posted by: geoff at November 12, 2006 03:05 PM
Long pig!
Posted by: mainiacjoe at November 13, 2006 10:21 AM