“Jibo the Family Robot” is the Creepiest Product of the Year (video)

Why not do both?

Agreed! Although dishwashers already exist 😉 though I'm sure people would upgrade to one that loads and unloads itself, if given the option.

I still can't believe people are too lazy to call their own takeout, according to this video. I kinda want to see how the guy taking the order on the other end reacts.

I can see people treating Jibo like a pet, or child, freaking out if I kicked it and told it to gtf away from me. "How dare you treat Jibo that way! Get out of here!"
"Funny you say that; I was thinking the same thing when I saw your spybot."
"He's no spybot! He's family! He's better than family!"

The latest thing to terrify your family or to spoil mercilessly!
I totally agree with that statement davis.
I’ve always said furbys are the spawn of satan…and now we have a robot made by followers of satan. How ironic….

Now you've got me curious about this "Black Mirror" show. Why different in different countries? laws, marketing, and fiddling, but not necessarily about language. I asked a manager of the US side of European owned company why they would sell one version of gadget X to the US customers and another to the Europeans? First different laws may apply (FDA or product limitations in the US may keep certain features off the product that would normally be used in other countries) Second, cultural differences may make certain "features" handicaps in a different culture. One of the European countries where gadget X is sold LOVES dials and complicated menus. The US market loves push button simplicity. Can't do both on the same gadget. Thirdly, fiddling. Especially with music or media (movies, tv, etc) crossing the border gives the new countries producers and directors a chance to put their spin on product. The new product, while essentially the same plot, can focus on themes not highlighted in the original. The best example of "3" I know is the movie "Vanilla Sky." (Now THAT would be a great movie for a VC review) If you didn't see it, it was during Tom Cruise's… Read more »

Just before reading this article yesterday, I stumbled across a very strange (IMO) article from some "news" site. The first half was a blurb about X Files coming back for a brief run. The second half went on about new technology with smart chips in prosthetic arms. First thought that came to my mind was "I gotta get over to VC and see if anyone is talking about this." They really are aiming for a transhumanist spy society, and they really are trying to dupe us into thinking its something we want. Yes, if I lost a limb it would be nice to have a realistic prosthetic to replace it, but there are so many more important things they could sink their time and money into. Such as helping the poor, making sure every person and "unwanted" pet has a home so that homeless and animal shelters aren't overflowing, phasing out gas guzzling vehicles in favor of ones that aren't harmful to the planet. I could go on but in short: these sickos have the ability and resources to really make the world a better place but instead they focus on unnecessary technology, baldness, and maintaining erections. Oh, and weight… Read more »

Lmfao "follow me into the bathroom"

Jibo: You aren't Regular enough. Perhaps more fiber in your diet will help.

HA!

My mother made sure I read both Animal Farm and 1984 when I was in elementary school (about 1975-1976). Ever since then I've been able to see more and more of his "unintentional" (?) predictions come true. It's so very sad that our parents were correct, isn't it? I wish more people would pass these books onto their children so that they may not become part of the sheeple flock.

My mother made sure I read both Animal Farm and 1984 when I was in elementary school (about 1975-1976). Ever since then I've been able to see more and more of his "unintentional" (?) predictions come true. It's so very sad that our parents were correct, isn't it? I wish more people would pass these books onto their children so that they may not become part of the sheeple flock.

YES!

This is a country of couch potato, grease gulping, TV zombies. So the answer to your question is yes!

Yes thank you God for opening the eyes of your people! These are the end times! The devil will try to do anything to distract the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ!

Oh my…
I didn't even THINK of the ramifications when simply calling or visiting a friend with this little piece of plastic machine.

I like the claw hammer comment more n more.

Spot on, Jim!

Believe it or not, there will be people that buy that thing. Especially those who love to share their selfies online.

Sadly MANY poeple would buy this, just take a look at the comments on youtube.. :/

Something for Gallagher to smash with his sledge hammer. (Yes I'm that old.)

It will be bought by the same people who love to make selfies and photos of their food and share those online.

It's based on a film with the same name from the 30's. maybe they were way ahead that what we imagined.

"Movies actually tell the truth, but people are too stupid to see it" Many of them do, subconsciously. Lots of people say "I've seen way too many horror movies to fall for that!" in regards to various things.

Re: the movie "HER."

A few years ago I had to buy a new washer. I thought this would be a perfect time to consider a new "Smart Energy/Energy Star" model. Until I started getting information about what this "smart energy /energy star" business REALLY leads to. Like cog.dis. said, it starts off sounding useful, as in saving energy and paying less on your bills. Then it morphs into a HAL like existence of "I'm sorry, but I can't allow you do wash your dirty socks now. You will use too much energy at this time of day. Please try again tomorrow." Sounds really nice, until you understand the plan is to CONTROL the use private use of energy based on the whims of a government establishment. Not because of some energy crisis, unless, you TOO believe it is a crisis that people should be able to use electric devices at all, but because selfish 1st worlders need to be poor and destitute like the rest of the world. Notice how "GETTING ENERGY TO ALL" never enters this conversation — THAT is too taxing on the environment. (notice also that who will be deciding what's too much and too taxing) SURE, I know it… Read more »

What, me worry? LOL!

I refuse to get any gaming consoles. I dumped Facebook a few years back and I have a Twitter account primarily for devotionals and weather. I also do not have cable or satellite. If my son watches TV it's a DVD.

I have a cellphone that's not a smartphone (though that probably doesn't even matter).

I play Sims 2 and Sims 3 and with Sims 3 I refuse to be online at the same time. There's a feature in one expansion where you can use the Internet to send a Sim "on tour" and I just don't do it. Oh, and the way I play Sims…NWO-types would have a fit (no "gay marriage" or any of that nonsense is allowed in my game). I play to relax, not "stay connected" with people I wouldn't even know from Adam. (No, I don't have any Katy Perry stuff for my Sims games.)

Have you seen Idiocracy? It's a humorous look at the grimm future of society.

I'm glad someone mentioned this, a friend has one, we always cover the camera

Great point on the plethora of security cameras. Where do all these frightened fools put their cameras? They must have them in every room and doorway of their home, plus more outside. How paranoid must one be to nervously look at camera images every time the home makes a creak with its settling.

And the bozos call us awake folk 'paranoid conspiracy nuts'.

Jeez.

I'm afraid my ten yr old is going to watch it and want one… like that damn barbie.
And she is a pint size half educated/ half sheeple being. Its the blind all around her that keep shrugging these inventions off.

Sign of autism…..lol, you made me laugh out loud

No it is not a sign of autism my son would easily break a device like this. It would be thrown around the room until it broke it a thousand pieces. Not all autistic kids are attracted to this junk that people want to make believe is a friend.

Being surrounded by cameras is like being surrounded with people who don't like you at home, at work, on the street. It's like living in small town. Children who grow up with sisters and brothers sometimes feel like this. Of course, we can survive this. Of course we will try to avoid this.

girl robot? robots dont have gender

I live near the Amish myself. Maybe it's time to join them.

Extended: they even played the let me in or i will huff and puff and blow your house in. Like they will happily allow you to get one on your own, but for the ones that refuse eventually when there is a police state, they will force jibo into your home.

Yup there's the wolf in case there was any doubt.

JIBO would definitely be hackable because it's connecting to your email and voicemail, so it would have to be WiFi connected. Ergo – hackable!

I read a news story about how paedophiles loved those wired child monitors, because they could hack into them and watch/interact with small children.

Jihads (for lack of a better collective term) aren't going to buy such a product. They aren't that stupid.

That's horribly unsettling!

Gooooood point! Wow. Seriously alarming stuff here. Or, worse yet, imagine forgetting that this 'harmless", "friendly" little robot was in the corner of the room or something when you and your partner are, for lack of a better term, sharing an 'intimate' moment… God knows where that footage goes, is stored, or who it is seen by. Not to mention, as Nick pointed out, the possibility of this stuff getting hacked… The robbery issue is something else of massive concern. And, while I don't have kids, have we really reached a day and age where robots are being supplemented for human interaction i.e. being used for story time, which, regardless of how busy a couple or parent is, should remain something that is 100% in said caregiver's role. There is no monitoring of content, and despite what the 'supplemental' material says on it's cover about the content inside, you have no idea what hidden agenda is sneakily imbedded within… People put too much faith in things just b/c they assume the message is safe, the intent is good, or it's an example of technological advancement. We have to stop becoming complacent and start questioning. Final gripe: Not ONE of these… Read more »

Deserves??

Sad, but so very true.

The family bonding non-sense is the worst and most ridiculous. We are already using too much technology to pretend we are "connecting", all the while losing depth in our relationships. Tell me how a machine reading to your child compares to mamma doing it, how the heart on the silly screen compares to daddy's goodnight kiss! How a machine "knowing" you and saying hello to you on arrival compares to having a REAL person asking "How was your day?".
I am no technophobe but this is far too much!

I think Orwell was one of them.

Then they're gonna sell one hell of a lot of 'em.

Orwell didn't predict anything. He was writing about the times he was living in. This has been the way things have been going for a very long time, it's just taken a while for some of us to wake up to it. Look into WWII propaganda.

Great observance, Fred!

I thought he said that at the end. And i was like why does that sound unsettling? Then i read you comment. Thanks for catching that.

Oh, you Christians. You're here allegedly fighting against this satanist ideology occurring in USA whiles thousands of Christians are being murdered everyday in the Muslim world. This place is all about information and ideology but religion is an ideology itself. So better work for saving your fellow Christians if you really love that idea of God you have. Humanism is what this place called Earth needs; 'cause everyone can believe whatever he or she likes in a modern democracy but no one can prove the existence of life after death. Evil and good exist in this reality, your reality; embrace it and aspire to transform it into a good place for every human being (or son of God).

To answer your first question. Yes there are millions of people stupid enough to buy one of these. Why do you think they created it in the first place. Advertise it to children. Parents are already trained to get their children what ever they insist on having. How many people bought the Xbox one spybox?

Amen to that!

I second that!
And second Jibo-Creepo's -Amen to that.
Sad I know people who will buy this.

Sad, sad world.

exactly my thoughts chris n a jar..wait till they put a body on it..the p********s & sickos that "can't get any" in the real world will have their virtual day in the hazy sun [-30% sunshine/light from chemtrails]..and when the rest of Jibo's body is attached? little cute Jibo becomes Miss, Mrs,or Mr. Jibo, or Miss or Mr. baby Jibo, or little Miss or Mr. child Jibo with genitalia & once arms are attached,Jibo becomes the family security system,as Jibo will surely be able to fend off burglers, & fire a weapon, keeping the family soooo safe. .& then the military will be interested[if this isn't a creation of the military industrial complex already]..where does & when does all this end?..the final tribulation end of days,& the return of our lord & savior Jesus Christ hopefully..this morbidly obese bowling pin, is surely part & parcel of their satanic NWO survelence grid obviously not anything the creator would approve of..in fact, just the opposite!,& why we earthly beings have friends,family,& neighbors,so a little monster like Jibo is never needed by anyone,anytime, nor anywhere… Jibo though is perfect for the every day American slacker,couch potato too dam lazy to get off the… Read more »

Tool of Satan? Why would you think this is a tool of satan? lol

I would really love to SLAP her patronizing face.

Already in your living room. And in your hands. Your TV. Your phone. This is just distraction, making us angry over something it's too late to be angry about. It's all happened already. We really are asleep.

well I'll answer just your first question…there are lots of people stupid enough to buy one of those..just think about all the people who bought a smartphone which can track you anywhere in the world, can collect your fingerprints, can be a recorder device of your conversation, where you write all your appointments and contacts, which have also a camera that can be switched on in any moment…can you imagine that "old and normal" mobile phones can be used to spy on conversations and locations even when they are off if the battery is still in?
I think that this is the answer to your question…
there are a lot of people who don't understand what it is truly happening in the world…
sad but true

"let's work together, to make Jibo truly great, and together we can humanize technology" "Why? Why do "we" have to "work together"? We have to work together to accept Satanism which is represented in this machine by the words used in the advertisement which talk about an integration of machine with humans. The evidence that it is a work of Satantanic Design isn't so much that it's a robot, because frankly it isn't much of a robot, hardly one at all, but that the advertisement itself tells you it is Satanic because what it seeks to do is to replicate Gods' all seeing, all knowing. God, creator of the Universe we know is said to know all things in his domain, of which we are part of, and yet again what is representative of God but the light, both of which this object seeks to mimic. Whereas a robot is a mechanical who's purpose is to assist and to labor in tasks which waste our time. This device actually does the reverse and wastes your time while watching you constantly, and only a fool would be so clueless as to think that the joking comments about the massive corporate spy… Read more »

There are some things a girl does in the night that this fracker does not need to see.