It's like roach coach, where roach coach is the more evil use of the technology.
(warning, no context!)
to contextualize would be to ruin the sheer paw-clapping glee that one experiences upon realizing what's going on... i wanted people to come to it without knowing quite what to expect.
Watching him spin in circles was funny. I bet he still does a lot of that. Think he's allowed any catnip before he gets behind the wheel?
That is wondrous.
I like the disclaimer....the kitty ....poor fing.
It kept reminding me of Captain Pike from Star Trek.
I really wanted him to have a beepy-blinky light instead of meowing.
I think he put a box on a Roomba, is using the control, and kitty has nothing to do with it.
Except for getting dizzy and meowing in a pitty-ful manner.
How many times does the guy say "regain mobility"?
I just hope they block off the basement stairs.
The kitty only lost mobility due to being raised in a bottle.
I'm still trying to figure out what the interface is between kitty and machine. Is it steered from head movments?
Seriously though, it's all well and good for a quadapeligic kitty, but what if all kitties got this technology? Then dogs would have to get the same thing, but with chew toy lazers! It would lead to massive weapons build up. Armageddon!!!
Squidranch, listen to GranMa - she Knows All.
And she has the shirt that rules them all.
He mentions a "two button" control. Now, how you could train a cat to use that, I don't know. But if the cat's really driving it, that's awesome.
It looks fake, sounds fake, and according to a forum posting about it I found, it is a joke.
The forum poster citec a passage from a Battlebots official guide book: "Bertocchini is know by many Comedy Central viewers as the guy who built an electric wheelchair for his crippled cat. April fools! The TV segment featuring the wheelchair-bound feline was fake; Carlo's cat is just fine. 'Comedy Central wanted to do something funny,' says Bertocchini, "and I came up with the Catbot for them. I intended it to come across as an obvious joke, but they did such a good job editing it together that a lot of people thought it was real."
Don't mean to be a killjoy.
So you're saying the context might actually ruin expose the joke hoax?
does that come with a superiority dance, too, techsmith, or can you begrudge your fellow monkeys a little amusement?
*stops dancing ... grudgingly*
Ha! Sucked in.
Was that a vacuum pun? Dirtbag.
That joke sucked.
I want robokitty to be real!!
*cries*
Clap your hands if you believe in robokitty!
*clapclapclapclapclap*
I, for one, am happy to find out that it was all a hoax and, I'm hoping, that the kitty in question was *not* injured and lost the use of its back legs. Of course, now we have this guy strapping his cat in a box on wheels and driving it around in cirles.
Well, maybe the cat asked for it.
What's wrong with strapping a cat into a box on wheels and driving it in circles?
Big Hand reaches down from sky and chucks Mr. Knickerbocker into a box on wheels. The intellect behind the big hand remotely controls the box and sends Mr. K into a spiral for approximately 5 minutes. Mr. K screams, but the Big Hand does not stop because it doesn't understand the screams. It is all captured on video and laughed about by millions. The saddest part is that Mr. K thought the Big Hand loved him.
Whoosh - nicely put, Zanshin!
Tell the story of how Big Hand reaches out of the lake, dangles a candy bar in front of Mr. K, who consumes it only to find it contained a sharp hook which is now ripping at his internal organs while simultaneously causing him to gasp for air, since he has been also yanked into the water, for the amusement and bragging rights of Big Hand. It's okay, though, because Big Hand rips the hook out of Mr. K, causing internal damage, and throws him gasping and brain-damaged out of the water. Whee!
Yeah, I know that story, but when I heard it, it was Mr. Fish Tick, not Mr. K.
Well, I was just disappointed that the Kitty didn't get to drive. The ignominy of being a puppet robo-kitty without having direct control over your own direction much less your 80-Megawatt death-dealing lasers.
...but when I heard it, it was Mr. Fish Tick
Gawrsh, but I miss him. ;-)
I want to be the Big Hand. That sounds like the coolest job.
Zanshin, for the record: I wasn't being facetious there- don't care at all for the 'sport' of fishing. Or trapping kitties in boxes.
Yea, but Fish Tick, what about equiping kitties with the 80 Megawatt death-dealing lasers? Is that cool or what?
Druther they had 80 Megawatt litterbox-cleaning lasers.
ruinexpose thejokehoax?