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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: sweetcell on August 03, 2009, 08:56:08 pm

Title: ATTENTION INDIE BANDS: you've been replaced by a robot
Post by: sweetcell on August 03, 2009, 08:56:08 pm

Robot Band Plays Music, Obsesses About its Online Followers (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/cybraphon/)

Like an aspiring indie band, the Cybraphon has many instruments, plays them on an irregular schedule, likes to have an audience around it ? and obsesses over comments on its blog, the number of friends it has on Facebook and how many fans follow it on MySpace.

The difference is that it is a handcrafted musical robot and one whose emotion meter swings from delirium to desolation based on its online popularity at any given moment.

?The Cybraphon has an almost egotistical desire for fame,? says Simon Kirby, one of the creators of the robot.

continued... (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/cybraphon/)

anyone wanna suggest a playlist for this destroyer of hipster economics?

(http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2009/07/cybraphon-full.jpg)

Title: Re: ATTENTION INDIE BANDS: you've been replaced by a robot
Post by: walkonby on August 03, 2009, 09:46:09 pm

does it have a program for shooting heroin?  or dating actresses nobody has heard of?

Title: Re: ATTENTION INDIE BANDS: you've been replaced by a robot
Post by: Jaguar on August 03, 2009, 10:35:57 pm

Does it come in hipster black?

Title: Re: ATTENTION INDIE BANDS: you've been replaced by a robot
Post by: Tom Servo on August 03, 2009, 11:33:22 pm

In honor of tomorrow's show...

Elbow - The Bones of You