Status: Fake chimp
I'm posting this in honor of Monkey Day. The Sharper Image is selling a
life-size animatronic chimpanzee head. It's the perfect gift for those hard-to-buy-for people on your list, if you don't mind shelling out $150 for it:
"Alive" Chimpanzee can see, hear and feel in ways that allow him to interact intelligently with you, your family, your guests...and with baffled strangers. Soulful eyes track movements using infrared "radar" vision; his ears have stereoscopic sound sensors; his skin reacts to contact with touch sensors all around. Four distinctive emotional moods include "Curious," "Happy," "Fearful" and "Feisty."
My wife thinks she's getting a new TV for her office this Christmas. Imagine her surprise when she opens this instead! (Thanks to Big Gary for the link)
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As for Billy Bass, I was the proud owner of one of those for years. It sat in my bathroom. I had read that it was possible to hack into them and download songs of your choice into them. I even had instructions on how to do it. So I was planning to replace the tune that came with it (Mack the knife, if I remember) with "let the eagles soar" as sung by our former Attorney General, John Ashcroft. But I never got around to doing it.
Speaking of Sharper Image, did anyone ever see the alien in the chamber they were selling for about $3000 a few years ago? Now THAT would be a kick ass gift.
I'm not sure what it is about Bigmouth Billy Bass that you object to, Christopher. He really does sing and move his lips, and for about five bucks, that seems pretty decent.