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FROM CHAIR TO TERMINATOR.
Via Kottke comes this link to harbingers of our coming doom the best robots of 2008. On the continuum between today's friendly iPod and tomorrow's murderous T-1000 that you blow apart with a well placed grenade only to watch it calmly reassemble itself before your horrified eyes, this self-constructing robot chair is pushing uncomfortably close to the T-1000.
COMMENTS (10)
This also brings to mind the movie the Iron Giant. At least that was a benevolent robot though.
Posted by: anon | February 9, 2009 11:28 AM
Sarah Connor on the chair:
How are you supposed to know? Fucking men like you built the hydrogen bomb. Men like you thought it up. You think you're so creative. You don't know what it's like to really create something; to create a life; to feel it growing inside you. All you know how to create is a chair...
Posted by: Will | February 9, 2009 11:42 AM
Those evil-natured robots,
they're programmed to destroy us...
-Flaming Lips
Oh, and if Sarah Connor wants to define 'creativity' as something any cow can do, that's her lookout.
Posted by: low-tech cyclist | February 9, 2009 12:01 PM
At last, a solution for the age-old problem of chairs spontaneously falling apart.
I hate when that happens at dinner parties -- now it will just be an ice-breaker!
Posted by: Brian | February 9, 2009 1:27 PM
They cheated on the third leg, it fell off the platform and magically reappeared. Better robots please.
Posted by: Alex F | February 9, 2009 1:54 PM
I, for one, welcome our benevolent robot overlords.
If only they would create a male skinjob toaster as hot as Six, sign me up for the occupation!
Posted by: Lynne | February 9, 2009 2:36 PM
What's overlooked is that the Iron Giant was only benevolent because it crashed and suffered the robot equivalent of brain damage! That thing was clearly created to be a killing machine--it may have been sent to destroy the Earth!
Posted by: Matt | February 9, 2009 3:09 PM
*shudder* I just spent all weekend watching the first two seasons of the Sarah Connor Chronicles. Now you show me this!
Where's your humanity?!
Posted by: domino | February 10, 2009 7:01 AM
Did anyone else experience a coldy frantic panicked urge to finish the chair off before it could fix itself while they were watching this?
Posted by: Justin | March 28, 2009 1:22 AM
(dystopian robotic regime change scenario in background)
"At least my chair is better again"
Posted by: Justin | March 28, 2009 1:25 AM