12.29.2005

Robotic Dinosaur & 20 Questions

Went to Future Shop yesterday to buy some stuff with my $200 gift card from Mumby. (thanks mumby!) Got me some DVDs, the firefly boxset, TV/VCR combo and a 20 Questions game which is actually quite neat.
But before I tell y'all about that I wanted to tell you about the creepiest toy, even creepier than Furby and Trolls. LOL. It's a robotic dinosaur that they had wandering around by customer service. It growls and things like that but it's a kind of "robo-pet" so it has sensors in it so it doesn't walk into things, but it's programmed to sense where people are, like by detecting sounds so if you're talking loud it wanders over to you and like rubs up against your leg kind of like a puppy, it's uber creepy. LOL
Okay and now about the 20 Questions game, it's pretty creepy too. It's this toy, kind of a game. You think up an item, like any common household item in your head or you can say it out loud so others around you know what it is and then you start the game. It's electronic and it has a screen so it flashes questions across the screen and you can answer "yes", "no" "rarely", "sometimes" and "unknown". The first question it asks is if it is an animal, or a mineral or a vegetable or other or unknown. After that it goes through a series of 20 questions, some more obscure than others and after 20 questions it guesses what you are thinking and 90% of the time it's right! It's so weird... You really wonder how it got to the right answer! If you stump it, it will go to 25 questions and guess again and if it still can't get it, it admits defeat. If it's especially sure of itself it will guess at 15 questions, but generally goes all the way to 20. We've so far stumped in on snow-blower, tweezers, mascara, condom & some body parts, but for the most part it guesses everything! It's so crazy!!

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