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Uniqlo Human Vending Machine Previews Our Future in the Robot Apocalypse
Posted by Benny Goldman at 9:00 AM on November 19, 2008
If you couldn't make it to Times Square this morning, the clip above shows what happens when humans become vending machines. Yes, it was a stunt put on by Uniqlo, and no, it didn't ruin shopping forever. It's actually pretty great; first you get your body scanned to reveal your hottest and coldest parts, then no matter the result, a human trapped inside a box delivers you a warm HeatTech shirt. Uniqlo has other demos planned in Paris, Shanghai and Seoul, but if you won't be in any of those places, at least you can rest easy knowing that you'll still have a job when the robots take over. [Uniqlo]
If you couldn't make it to Times Square this morning, the clip above shows what happens when humans become vending machines. Yes, it was a stunt put on by Uniqlo, and no, it didn't
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ripfire
Posted 11:27 AM 19/11/08
@TOWken: I know. Too much overshoot and oscillations. Needs to decrease gain a bit.
ripfire
92BuickLeSabre
Posted 11:19 AM 19/11/08
On this, the 18th day of the eleventh month, in the second year of our Lord Phone, it is decreed from the blogosphere in the heart of teh internets, that henceforth, the one formerly known as "Benny Goldman", once-interpid-intern, now intrepid-something-or-other, known well, perhaps too well, across the Gawker empire; he of the hairless skin and chocolate nether regions; he who braved the rains of Coney Island and the reigns of Lam and Chen, shall be known proudly and solely to all who can hear this proclamation as:
Chilly-Legs!
92BuickLeSabre
TOWken
Posted 11:13 AM 19/11/08
That was the worst rendition of the robot I have ever seen, Bender is going to come from Mars and kick some a$$. I can't imagine that anyone was registering hot zones on their bodies today considering how cold it was, but any excuse to get free stuff is a good excuse.
TOWken
Wess
Posted 11:10 AM 19/11/08
Is that suppose to attract potential customers?
Wess
vicsells
Posted 11:07 AM 19/11/08
ahahahahahahahahahaahah
vicsells
92BuickLeSabre
Posted 11:51 AM 19/11/08
@Hiphopopotamus: To be fair, I believe these may be mere aspiring models.
92BuickLeSabre
Hiphopopotamus
Posted 11:40 AM 19/11/08
I know a whole bunch of aspiring actors who need to fire their agents yesterday.
Hiphopopotamus
contempt
Posted 12:09 PM 19/11/08
Uh, so did I miss out on free t-shirts? Cause if they weren't free, that would have been a waste of time.
contempt
92BuickLeSabre
Posted 12:24 PM 19/11/08
@Kaiser-Machead: You clearly just started keeping score.
92BuickLeSabre
Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine
Posted 12:22 PM 19/11/08
@92BuickLeSabre: No way in hell am I calling him that.
Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine
Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine
Posted 12:14 PM 19/11/08
Indignity - 1, Man - 0
Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine
Mike918
Posted 12:52 PM 19/11/08
I just lost my hope for humanity...oh wait i lost that a long time ago.
Mike918
Benny Goldman
Posted 1:48 AM 20/11/08
@92BuickLeSabre: I'll take it, as long as it replaces everything else. It just has to be said in that guy's voice.
Benny Goldman