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Remember the robot that let you french kiss a straw? (Famously discussed here?) You remember. You were so excited about it! You wouldn’t stop talking about it, like, “Where can I get my hands on one of those straw robots?” Well, luckily for you, the inventor of that robot, Nobuhiro Takahashi, has developed a new lonely person robot! And this one is even better! He explains:
Usually people feel nothing, or they even feel bad, when they hug strangers, but they experience feelings of satisfaction, love and comfort when they hug a boyfriend or girlfriend. We wondered how humans would feel if they could hug themselves.
Uh, I can tell you how humans would feel if they could hug themselves, Nobuhiro. GREAT, OBVIOUSLY.
I really do wish I could feel what it would be like to hug myself. Or I wish I could feel like what it would be like to hug myself if I were a person much larger than myself. You know? Like how it would feel if I were a giant, hugging normal Kelly. Also I would like to have a conversation with myself. And review all of my life choices and personality defects as if I were an outside party. And then I would write down everything I thought about myself, from the perspective of that outside party, and then I’d review it when I was back to normal and see what I REALLY thought about myself. You know, just like what everybody else wants? When will you allow us to do that, Japan?
More than hug myself, though, I’d like to hug Nobuhiro Takahashi. Omgggoood. A little more intense, please. I like my hugs to feel a liiiitle more like you’re trying to stop me from being able to fight back. (Via Reddit.)
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I don’t know what he’s talking about. I never feel bad when I hug strangers. I don’t get the impression they like it very much, though.
Is there a machine that lets me feel what it’s like to hug Jay-Z? I want to know how it feels to be Goop, even for a moment.
This guy’s all over it:
“I can’t believe I didn’t think of this first!” – Richard Heene
Yeah, I’m sure that people who that hard up for human compassion are looking for a robot to only “hug” them, if you know what I mean*.
*I mean sex.**
** Lonely people want to have sex with robots.
Sometimes it’s just about companionship
Whoa- that guy is a super aggressive/awkward hugger.
Maybe it’s better for all of us that he sticks to mannequins.
I know! That guy looked like he was trying to find that robot’s bra clasp.
I think we should all hug Gabe like this whenever we meet him, like a secret hug handshake. So he’ll know it’s us.
That’s like real life “light-fruit”, you guys. Don’t hug yourself, Grandaddy.
Anyone else having trouble loading the Gabe and Max episode that Kelly linked? (Or, for that matter, any of the older episodes?) The only ones that load for me are the two newest. Does BWE have a time limit on old videos?
You actually get kicked out of department stores if you try to hug mannequins like that.
Unrelated: I am no longer welcome at Macy’s or its affiliates.
So it’s like masturbation for the soul ?