Echo Robot Matches You With Other Hot People In Real Time
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Echo is a little robot that looks like your little daughter’s toy, which detects in real time other Echo-toting people nearby and alerts you if a possibly compatible human mate is within the vicinity.
Let me try to explain that again, by quoting this block from Robot Gossip:
The small robots can wiggle and probably talk a little. They are small enough to carry around with you. At home you connect it to your PC and program your interest profile into it. Then you carry it around with you as a sort of fetish of your personality. As you walk around, the flirtatious robot broadcasts your profile to other Echos riding along on the shoulders of other totally cool people. When your Echo finds another with its same interests it nudges you, dances or waves its cute little arms - your choice. I would want maybe just an elbow nudge and “hey, psst, check it out,” on the sly.
If you don’t feel silly walking around with a teddy-bear-looking matchmaker in tow, then Echo is probably a godsend. Happy hunting.
via ROBOT GOSSIP
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January 30th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Hey, this is Andrew from the Echo development team. We just want to clarify that the robots weren’t designed for dating - we wrote a post to clarify this when the original Robotgossip article came out.
Echo is meant as a way to connect people with common interests for any reason, not just romantic ones. For instance, maybe you’re new to town and looking for other curling fanatics, and your coworker happens to be one. Or you want to strike up a conversation with the teenager across the hall but didn’t know she was interested in W3C standards. Or you’re looking for a typography expert for your project and the fellow across the lunch table is just that.
It’s like having a mutual friend introduce you, in a way. We’re hoping that they’ll nudge people to go up and strike up conversations more, facilitating human interaction instead of taking over it. Think of it as something like a physical implementation of social networking.
The teddy bear thing is also not a given (although a lot of people seem to think it’s kind of cute) - we’re experimenting with many different form factors, including non-robotic things like PDAs and cell phones.
We always love talking to people about Echo, so if you have any suggestions or want to find out more, our website is at http://echorobotics.com/ and we’re just an email away.