Comment: Re:A martini... (Score 1) 770
Wow. I would comment on the fact that a community college dropout seems to be better qualified than this guy, but I've got to forge a diploma and call up his editor real quick.
Comment: Re:Useful tool (Score 2, Insightful) 126
Then don't buy those products. It's unreasonable to expect 90% of us to avoid using a technology because the remaining 10% can't. (Or, put another way, if I make something for myself, don't get worked up if you're different enough from me that it doesn't work for you as well.)
Safe robotic sex, the future of mankind->
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An anonymous reader writes "Nothing quite like knowing that the condoms you use have been tested by robots. Ars Technica has an article regarding just that. Excerpt:
"They found that, in general, it was difficult to cause a condom to fail, but there was one exception. If a condom was locally stretched and not allowed to recover before being stretched again for several iterations, it became fairly easy to rupture. Furthermore, the ruptures had characteristic traits, making it easy to identify the cause by simply looking at the failed condom. However, a test tube is not a penis. In order to find out if this source of failure could occur during intercourse, a sex robot was constructed. It consisted of a large rubber penis that was mechanically thrust into a variable-tightness rubber vagina.""
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"They found that, in general, it was difficult to cause a condom to fail, but there was one exception. If a condom was locally stretched and not allowed to recover before being stretched again for several iterations, it became fairly easy to rupture. Furthermore, the ruptures had characteristic traits, making it easy to identify the cause by simply looking at the failed condom. However, a test tube is not a penis. In order to find out if this source of failure could occur during intercourse, a sex robot was constructed. It consisted of a large rubber penis that was mechanically thrust into a variable-tightness rubber vagina.""
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