{"id":8797,"date":"2006-02-16T16:56:06","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T16:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8797"},"modified":"2006-02-16T16:56:06","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T16:56:06","slug":"rocky-bullwinkle-on-line-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8797","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rocky? Bullwinkle on Line 2&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/cellularsquirrel3.jpg\">Oh those precocious scamps at MIT&#8217;s Media Lab, what&#8217;ll they imagineer next? Perhaps a <a href=\"http:\/\/web.media.mit.edu\/~stefanm\/phd\/cellularsquirrel\/\" target=\"new\">phone-screening robo-squirrel<\/a>? Too silly to be true? Gotta be a prank? Nope, real as rain. <\/p>\n<p> Stefan Marti is working on a robot (housed inside of a stuffed animal) that can receive your mobile phone calls, talk to the caller, consult a &#8220;friends&#8221; list, and even read your body language to determine whether to put the call through to you (via a built-in speaker phone) or politely send the caller to voice-mail. If the robo-squirrel thinks you should take the call, he starts vibrating with varying levels of intensity depending on a determination of how much you might like to talk to the caller. So, if he&#8217;s rockin&#8217; so hard, his fur starts flying off, it&#8217;s probably FiestyNrrrd, that hot grrrl you&#8217;ve been chatting up on MySpace. Of course, she&#8217;s gonna dump your ass like a roaming call when she finds out that you have an electronic furry screening your calls. Even a riot grrrl knows when the techno-fetishism&#8217;s gone too far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh those precocious scamps at MIT&#8217;s Media Lab, what&#8217;ll they imagineer next? Perhaps a phone-screening robo-squirrel? Too silly to be true? Gotta be a prank? Nope, real as rain. Stefan Marti is working on a robot (housed inside of a stuffed animal) that can receive your mobile phone calls, talk to the caller, consult a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8797\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Rocky? Bullwinkle on Line 2&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}