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Re:The new Elmo Live is pretty impressive by wallflower on Thursday February 14, 2008 @03:51PM (#116063)
Do children need to conjure up virtual/imaginary friends anymore with toys like these?

Amazing technology but I think playing in the dirt with action figures is a dying art among the single-digit-year-folks.

I wonder if they are doing real-time voice synthesis. We've come a long way since the Speak & Spell (from E.T.).

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Re:The new Elmo Live is pretty impressive by jcl on Thursday February 14, 2008 @04:37PM (#116095)
We've come from E.T. to A.I. -- Super-toys last all summer long. :)
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Re:The new Elmo Live is pretty impressive by curi on Thursday February 14, 2008 @03:58PM (#116071)
the dirt is still there, if anyone wants it.

the only case against elmo is that people prefer it.

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Re:The new Elmo Live is pretty impressive by noonespecial on Thursday February 14, 2008 @11:54PM (#116305)
No evil robot I've ever imagined to mass produce as my minions in my bid for global domination has been half this sinister...

If this were slashdot I'd welcome an overlord of some sort.

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Re:The new Elmo Live is pretty impressive by iamelgringo on Friday February 15, 2008 @01:15AM (#116347)
Now, if they would only release an API, or some type of animation program and USB port....
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Re:The new Elmo Live is pretty impressive by Readmore on Thursday February 14, 2008 @04:38PM (#116096)
This is really cool. I want to see a Hacker culture spring up around the Elmo!
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Re:The new Elmo Live is pretty impressive by msteigerwalt on Thursday February 14, 2008 @03:36PM (#116053)
The product rep in those videos is brilliant.
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