Seems pretty smart... for a human talking on the mic.
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Hank the robot has State Fair auto show crowds laughing, wondering
09:06 AM CDT on Thursday, October 16, 2008
By JESSICA MEYERS / The Dallas Morning News
jmeyers@dallasnews.com
Hank woos women, mocks Toyota and busts out "the robot" on cue.
TIM GRUBER
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Ford's Hank the Robot is shown at the State Fair of Texas Auto Show in Dallas. The Auto Show is one of the fair's most popular attractions, drawing 85 percent of total attendance.
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In fact, he is a robot – Ford Motor Co.'s "Ambassador of Innovation," who quips as much as he advertises. He's a hit at the State Fair, where he bewilders fairgoers daily at the car show.
"Why do my fingers look like this?" Henry Ford's namesake asked in response to a question from the growing crowd about the questionable shape of his right hand. "More than likely, it's some hoodlum who reached up here and did that to my middle finger. And now we're going to have to explain how expensive Ford is when it's because your brat came to the auto show and broke my finger."
An audience of about 50 guffawed and smirked for the rest of Hank's half-hour riff earlier this week. He performs on the half hour, and responds to most questions thrown at him, which range from his dancing abilities to his career choice. He shrugs off a couple – such as how he actually works – and adds Ford promos every couple of minutes.
"I think it's cute, but there's somebody in the back, obviously," said 36-year-old Suerri Dugan from Abbott after she watched his show. She pointed to a small camera on Hank's forehead.
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Tavian Bartholomew did some of his own fact-checking. "I went behind the curtain and there's nobody back there," said the 10-year old from Crowley. "It's cool. Can I have one?"
Ford representatives refuse to ruin the fantasy, even for many employees.
"It's kind of a corporate secret," said Darwin Kloster, who has worked with Ford for the past three years.
Even Hank had little to say when he saw a reporter approach with notebook in hand.
"There goes everything," he said. "Tomorrow there will be a story in the news that a mean robot flips up the middle finger at the State Fair."
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Hank the Ford Robot..
Improv Everywhere - MP3 Experiment.
If you haven't heard about this, these guys create MP3's and get loads of people to listen to the same MP3 at the same time and get them to do actions according to what the song says. The best thing is that they manage to sync them up for the right timing and colloborate with other groups. Check it out
The Mp3 Experiment Tour from ImprovEverywhere on Vimeo.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Iowa couple ordered to stay apart after woman bites fiance before wedding
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IOWA CITY, Iowa - A judge has ordered a suburban Chicago woman to stay away from her fiance - two weeks before their wedding.
Johnson County Judge Stephen Gerard ordered 23-year-old Rucha Patel on Monday not to have contact with the man after she was charged with domestic abuse causing injury.
Her fiance's name was not released.
Police say Patel drove over the man's foot and then bit his hand when he took away her keys to prevent her from driving. It was not known why he tried to stop Patel.
Patel told the judge the marriage was scheduled in two weeks.
A call left with a listing for Rucha Patel was not returned.
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Evidence of the Yeti.
Yes finally, more evidence of a yeti/sasquatch thing.
A friend suggested that you don't have to look too far to get evidence of the missing link.. You just have to go to your local hockey rink where Parents of kids on the ice resemble sasquatch at times...
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Hopefully this is better then the hoax we had earlier this year.
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
Noriko-san subway sleeping mask lets other passengers know to where to wake you, looks really cool
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We've accomplished many an hour of restful, mugger-prone napping on the subway, but there's always the danger of missing your stop -- a problem we're usually too drowsy to consider at 2am in the morning. Not clever hacker Pyocotan, however. This resourceful fellow has built the Noriko-san sleeping mask for fashion-forward commuters, which broadcasts your destination to fellow passengers on a garish LED display, while you're busy getting some shut-eye underneath the mask -- in the hope that they'll be kind enough to wake you up at the right stop after they've rid you of your iPod and wallet. With a cost of $200 in parts, and considerable impracticality to boot, this device isn't quite ready for the commercial sphere, but that's of little concern to Pyocotan -- he's just busy being awesome. Video is after the break.
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