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Japanese Pekoppa Plant Listens To Your Problems Because Nobody Else Wants To
Posted by Jason Chen at 3:50 AM on June 7, 2008
Sega Toys knows what Japanese people want: something to complain to that couldn't possibly think badly of you. It's called Pekoppa, and it's got a chip inside that will bend, stretch, and lean the plant according to how you speak to it. According to Sega it's "a good listener," will have 200,000 units floating around Japan come September. Do they have dogs in Japan, or have all the North Koreans abducted them all? [Nikkei via Crunchinator]
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Kaiser-Machead
Posted 4:42 AM 7/6/08
@carmen: nutbastard's?
Czar is offended. Sad and offended and he will write your name in the litter box, where a fresh turd shall be laid. Hmmmph.
Kaiser-Machead
carmen
Posted 4:41 AM 7/6/08
@Cordfucious: lol...you'd have to ask a certain someone :p
carmen
Cordfucious
Posted 4:39 AM 7/6/08
@Cordfucious: is...geez im off today
Cordfucious
Rabid Penguin
Posted 4:37 AM 7/6/08
@Gann: I thought so. I've never been there either. I would like to go, but I think it's crap like this that makes me hesitant ;c)
Rabid Penguin
Cordfucious
Posted 4:30 AM 7/6/08
@Gann: bowing in japan in a greeting used. Not a sign of sympathy.
@carmen: Hey....I hear Chaldean pron is hot....LOL
Cordfucious
Gann
Posted 4:26 AM 7/6/08
@Rabid Penguin: As my speculative comment implies, no althought I would love to. I have also never wished, nor do I see myself ever wanting a synthetically sympathetic plant.
Gann
carmen
Posted 4:26 AM 7/6/08
@Cordfucious: haha wow... God I really hope he doesn't leave.
carmen
Cordfucious
Posted 4:25 AM 7/6/08
@carmen: Well in the event he leaves, 30 'cats' makes for one fine movie. And I doubt you would be lonely...just ask Lindsay
Cordfucious
nocturnus
Posted 4:22 AM 7/6/08
in response to 'insert blend comment here....'
"Today on will it blend, the plant edition!"
*plant turns and looks at you and starts to shiver*
-in tiny sqeuky voice-
*noooooo! don't blend me*
nocturnus
tucker
Posted 4:21 AM 7/6/08
@Rabid Penguin: lol, exactly.
tucker
Rabid Penguin
Posted 4:18 AM 7/6/08
@tucker: It "gets outta there."
Rabid Penguin
tucker
Posted 4:16 AM 7/6/08
i wonder what it does when you tell it to "make like a tree..."?
tucker
carmen
Posted 4:16 AM 7/6/08
@Cordfucious: OH please go there, he will be ok. I am however, very curious!
carmen
wild homes
Posted 4:15 AM 7/6/08
I'm assuming by 'abducted' we mean EATEN, am I right?
wild homes
Rabid Penguin
Posted 4:14 AM 7/6/08
@Gann: Have you ever been there (to Japan)?
Rabid Penguin
Cordfucious
Posted 4:12 AM 7/6/08
@carmen: there are several 'cat jokes' that I could go with. But my respect and reverence for the bastard prevents me from going there my lady
Cordfucious
Gann
Posted 4:10 AM 7/6/08
A fake plant that bows to you. Wow, it must be really depressing in Japan.
Gann
ANoel
Posted 4:10 AM 7/6/08
@carmen:
Just don't get into a marking war =^..^=
/meow
ANoel
carmen
Posted 4:07 AM 7/6/08
@killarclown: I really don't like cats. Except nutbastards but thats b.c his are just so sweet looking.
@zenpoet: :( Why must you judge me?!
carmen
zenpoet
Posted 4:05 AM 7/6/08
@carmen: Talking to your plants is the least of your worries if you have 30 cats.
zenpoet
Chromeo
Posted 4:02 AM 7/6/08
Finally! Someone to take my verbal abuse that can't walk away!!!
Chromeo
bpatten
Posted 4:02 AM 7/6/08
But does it talk back?
If not, I'd say billy bass has this beat.
bpatten
killarclown
Posted 3:58 AM 7/6/08
@carmen: forget the plant.. my cat cowers and shivers and shows more fear than this plant ever could.. it's really quite relaxing.. stick with the cats, lady.
killarclown
takashimike 2.0
Posted 3:56 AM 7/6/08
[Insert "Blend" Comment here]
takashimike 2.0
carmen
Posted 3:56 AM 7/6/08
So when nutbastard gets tired of me, I can talk to my plant?!
Wow...I'm gonna die a lonely lady with 30 cats.
carmen
Monty
Posted 5:03 AM 7/6/08
Talking to self - check.
Talking to pets - check.
Talking to plants - check.
Talking to fake plants ---
Are you kidding? You would have to be crazy.
Monty
LoganSix
Posted 4:57 AM 7/6/08
I see that the plant is demonstrating to the user that he will never have sex again.
LoganSix
Cordfucious
Posted 4:50 AM 7/6/08
@Kaiser-Machead: Hey I just found out myself..... Damn sexy ass Chaldeans...they always leave you stung out like that......
Cordfucious
Kaiser-Machead
Posted 5:40 AM 7/6/08
@carmen: I don't think you'd want any Giz members at your door with flowers.
They'd likely be made out of shredded TV Guides or TPS reports, like the one I'm making now.
Kaiser-Machead
carmen
Posted 5:34 AM 7/6/08
@nutbastard: Hahaha, I don't think any are waiting by my door with flowers :p
But I'll take the flowers...:D
carmen
nutbastard
Posted 5:31 AM 7/6/08
@Cordfucious:
@carmen:
im not going anywhere. leave? YOU? ha hope none of the other gizmodians have their hopes up for that sort of thing.
nutbastard
carmen
Posted 5:31 AM 7/6/08
@Kaiser-Machead: OK WAIT
Czar is NOT just a cat...Czar is TEH cat and I need to know where he is so I can apologize and give him a I AM SORRY balloon
carmen
Hvedhrungr
Posted 5:24 AM 7/6/08
I know a PhD student in the lab I work at who would definitely make use of this thing. If she didn't accidentally doused it in sulphuric acid first. She tends to encounter minor mishaps like that.
Anything that keeps a Japanese man from going ballistic has a realistic chance of keeping her occupied long enough for the rest of us to finish our work. The alternative is for all of us to wear HAZMAT suits for 10 hours a day, just to be sure.
Hvedhrungr
carmen
Posted 5:54 AM 7/6/08
@Kaiser-Machead: TV guide tulips?! WOW
@Rabid Penguin: haha you guys are just eating up on the chaldean thing eh?
carmen
nutbastard
Posted 5:51 AM 7/6/08
@Rabid Penguin:
you guys just love pushing my buttons, don't you?
nutbastard
Rabid Penguin
Posted 5:46 AM 7/6/08
@Kaiser-Machead: Could you post a How-To? There's this Chaldean girl I've been trying to stalk.
Rabid Penguin
Rabid Penguin
Posted 6:33 AM 7/6/08
@Karinabob: That's the idea. It saw what you were doing to your other plants and is trying to defend itself the only way it knows how.
Rabid Penguin
Karinabob
Posted 6:29 AM 7/6/08
That is a flaccid-looking plant. I don't know if it would satisfy me very well.
Karinabob
carmen
Posted 6:22 AM 7/6/08
@frigg: You cannot adopt me. I don't think nutbastard would like it.
carmen
frigg
Posted 6:14 AM 7/6/08
@carmen: I hear Chaldean adoption is a big thing on the internet these days.
frigg
carmen
Posted 6:43 AM 7/6/08
@Karinabob: Where you going to masturbate with the plant? HMMM if the stem was only hard and thicker...
carmen
Karinabob
Posted 7:30 AM 7/6/08
Hahaha, I love puns.
Karinabob
nutbastard
Posted 7:47 AM 7/6/08
@frigg:
sorry bro, i already submitted the paper work. can't you find a beautiful, hilarious exotic culmination of affection as good as Carmen for yourself?
oh right. nothing's as good as Carmen.
nutbastard
Cordfucious
Posted 8:05 AM 7/6/08
@Rabid Penguin: [rimshot]
Cordfucious
Rabid Penguin
Posted 8:02 AM 7/6/08
@nutbastard: I guess we'll just have to clone her. Maybe during the cloning process we can "enhance" a few things... like maybe make her like me.
Rabid Penguin
carmen
Posted 7:59 AM 7/6/08
@nutbastard: <3
carmen
frigg
Posted 8:29 AM 7/6/08
@nutbastard: Congratulations. You've passed the C.A.R.M.A.N. Turing Test:
Chaldean
Advanced
Robotic
Man
Alluring
Nymphet
@carmen: As I know you're a portmanteaus fembot, my plan is to win you over with fast-cycling double-pumped RAM. I have yet to meet a portmanteaus fembot that can say no to THAT!!!
frigg
Rabid Penguin
Posted 8:27 AM 7/6/08
@Step666: Huh? Just because I can't get women to like me doesn't mean I'm gay. I like women not men... neither like me :c /
Rabid Penguin
Step666
Posted 8:14 AM 7/6/08
@Rabid Penguin: you mean make her into a guy?
Step666
Step666
Posted 8:48 AM 7/6/08
@Rabid Penguin: ah, ok.
That makes a bit more sense now.
Step666
Rabid Penguin
Posted 8:42 AM 7/6/08
@Step666: OOOOHHHH.... I meant "like me" as in "I like Rabid Penguin. I want to sleep with him." Not "like" as in a physical sense... well... I did mean I want her to like me physically but you took it a different way... Okay, this is just getting weird.
Rabid Penguin
Rabid Penguin
Posted 8:40 AM 7/6/08
@carmen: Pictures or it didn't happen.
Rabid Penguin
Step666
Posted 8:39 AM 7/6/08
@Rabid Penguin: I never suggested you were gay, you merely stated you wanted to make Carmen more like yourself and since one of the biggest differences between you two (apart from the fact you're a person and she's some sort of sex-robot) is gender, so I naturally assumed you meant that you wanted a male Carmen.
:P
Step666
carmen
Posted 8:38 AM 7/6/08
@Rabid Penguin: awh, I like you. Want a hug?!
and ain't no one cloning me!...thats creepy but at least I could play with myself all day literally...but i do that anyways.
@frigg: NO:)
I'm all woman, all the time, all day ;)
carmen
frigg
Posted 9:28 AM 7/6/08
@frigg: /*nervous laughter
frigg
frigg
Posted 9:17 AM 7/6/08
Check please.
frigg
itsgadgetplayyyy
Posted 1:59 PM 7/6/08
@nutbastard: "hope none of the other gizmodians have their hopes up for that sort of thing."
No, no, of course not...
itsgadgetplayyyy