Rock Exoskeletons: The Future Of Music Belongs to Cyborgs

Japanese artist Nobumichi Tosa has an interesting concept for the future of musical performance: Interactive, movement-controlled exoskeletons programmed (much like a synthesizer,) to produce any range of sounds. It’s operated by the speed of the user’s movement, the position of his poses, and the appearance of certain specific gestures. And though this particular device is only used for performance art by Nobumichi’s design troop, Maywa Denki, the idea in general is gaining a lot of ground.

On the subject of Robots and Abraham Lincoln…

No time for a real update this week, so you will once again have to make do with some mildly hackish sci-fi crap. The Atom blog is on break for the month but will return, in case you were wondering what happened to them, and in the meantime I am busy trying to teach myself how to write screenplays. Anybody have any practice with that? Or recommendations for decent online resources? As a side-note - why am I so obsessed with Abraham Lincoln cyborgs? Is this a diagnosed mental condition that I am unaware of? As further evidence, I not only present to you the story below, but also point to my concept art for The Adventures of Rocket-Punch Lincoln, and to the first character I ever made on City of Heroes, Lincoln 3000.

Sex Robot - Finally Nerding Up Foreplay

Meet Lisa, an experimental robot designed by a trio of multimedia artists.

In looking at that picture, was your first response “I really want to fuck that?” Congratulations, you are on the cutting edge of advanced robotics! That is precisely the kind of response the creators were hoping for, and though I personally don’t find a corpse-like mannequin with what appear to be lasers for eyes a huge turn-on, apparently there’s just a huge hankering to stick some dick into raw circuitry out there. Lisa, fully named The Moaning Lisa (nothing like puns to make we want to bone a corpse!) is mostly innovative for her interface. The designers created a responsive code that plays MP3s of sexually aroused females in response to the user’s attentions. Supposedly, this can be used to teach reluctant, timid virgin nerds about the importance and correct methods of sexual foreplay.

Yes, somebody has managed to nerd up foreplay.

A lot.

Although the current Moaning Lisa comes pre-loaded with MP3s of women in various states of arousal, the inventors want to stress the versatility of their custom interface. Any set of MP3s can be linked to any touch-sensitive areas. Some cited potential uses of this technology are heightened sensitivity touch displays for computers, vehicles and cell phones. But if we are to be truly honest with one another, everybody knows you’re just going to program your specific kinks into the fuck-doll. I’m going to get ready right now and rip some MP3s from CNN’s website. Personally, I can’t wait for my fake woman that will play clips of Larry King in response to being finger-banged.

Don’t you fucking judge me.