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We're bombarded with so
many robots each day that most don't even warrant a second glance from us. Soldierbot? Seen it. Nursebot? Ditto. Shoppingbot? Yawn.
So when we stumbled upon a wild project called "Beggar (a robot for the materially deprived)," we immediately
knew that we'd struck gadget gold. Created by Slovenian designer Saso Sedlacek (there's a bunch of funny accented
characters above his name that we don't know how to encode), Beggar is the perfect sidekick for the homeless-on-the-go,
who need to multitask just like everyone else now that they're being outfitted with pimped out multimedia shopping carts. In all
seriousness, though, Sedlacek assembled Beggar out of junked computer parts to provide a cheap way for the
"materially deprived" to retain their dignity while still earning a meager income. One proposed advantage of
Beggar over analog panhandling is that it can be set up in places where the homeless are usually forbidden to loiter,
such as shopping malls and chichi society events. Those readers catching our posts on those previously-mentioned
shopping carts will be disappointed to learn that not only is Beggar still a prototype, its Slovenian pleas for loot
would likely go unheeded in about 99.9% of the world.[Via Robot Gossip]
"Women don't want to hear a man's opinion, they just want to hear their opinion in a deeper voice."
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