Great Googly Moogly
If you’ve seen this, then you understand the magic. If you haven’t, then please allow me to introduce you to the Keepon robot, a wonderful mixture of technology and poofball that will leave you in a frenzy of infantile clapping and chair-bouncing. At least, that’s the effect it had on me. I wonder: will you experience the same roller-coaster of emotion that I did upon viewing this video?
At first, I was skeptical. I mean, look at it. It’s basically two yellow rice balls with eyes. Then I was amused. This is mildly distracting, I thought, and began to turn my attention back toward the research whose tangent had led me here. But then it happened. In the slightest of alterations, the movement was subtly different, and I was tantalized beyond description. It had me in its fatally cute clutches, and I was done for.
In this video, we see the Keepon dynamically reacting to the music, changing its patterns in a surprisingly life-like manner. In fact, I am certain that this little guy dances better than a majority of the people I have seen booty-shakin’ in extent of my lifetime. It was developed in Japan to interact and communicate with children behaviorally and was designed for a multitude of applications, most especially for interacting socially with children to assist in their development.
In my case, however, it effected an overdose of adorability that almost caused my head to explode.
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