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Wednesday, December 28, 2005

I'm going bananas for this monkey

If you strolled into your neighborhood Sharper Image this month you were greeted by the "Alive" Chimpanzee — So Real, It's Unreal! Hollywood "F/X" animatronics robot.

This is freaky. It is a chimp head that looks like a decapitated Chuck E. Cheese character that you can buy and control:

* Amazing "Alive" Chimpanzee is a fully animated, life-size bust of the real animal.
* "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."
* Override his "natural" autonomous mode by using the wireless controller to communicate specific commands as far as 30 feet away.
* A Sharper Image worldwide exclusive.


Believe it or not, it's come down in price since Christmas. What a deal? Even stranger, I actually watched Ellen (that is strange for me) and they had Sex in the City's Kim Cattrall ride around with one of these in New York City. CONTACT: Leave me a Houston or Texas media news tip | COMMENT: Click to leave your thoughts on this post here