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Comment by jayfuerstenberg | Hacker News Reader

This reminds of that board meeting scene in Demolition Man with all the monoliths with screens each projecting a participant's face on them.

It seems interesting but I wonder if people would welcome this. Having an iPad with my boss' face on it rolling behind me at work feels creepy.

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Actually this reminded me of that episode of Big Bang Theory where Sheldon gets paranoid about germs or something and builds a similar device to interact with others. It was also the episode where they bring in Steve Wozniak.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K1uj9VmCzo

They used this one: http://www.willowgarage.com/pages/texai/overview

(Competition coming soon https://www.suitabletech.com/ )

You mean spin-off company? Suitable is developing the Texai robot into a product.

This is all correct. Suitable is a spin-off from Willow Garage, with many of the same people involved. Suitable's first product is based off the Texai project from Willow. The Texai was featured on the Big Bang Theory in one episode.

Din't think it was a real product, thought it was something they rigged up for the show. Thanks for the link.

For reference, this is the scene: http://ispr.info/files/2011/07/DemolitionMan.jpg

That's the one!

You might not welcome it, but your boss would probably be keen - and he'll be paying :-)

How about having an iPad with your boss' fade on it rolling behind everyone at the same time?

Or the movie Surrogates, where everyone just uses a robot avatar for everything, and never actually leave their houses.

Actually this reminds me of an interview with Doug Engelbart talking about molding CRT displays to the shape of heads and using them as the ultimate telepresence robots.

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