Gizmodo
Created with lonely people in mind, Drew Burrows' INBED is an "infrared-sensitive" light projected virtual girlfriend. A sexy brunette, she's got about three tricks up her sleeve—and she does all of them from a supine position.
Kiss her on the cheek when you slide into bed and she'll bury her face in the pillow. Hmmm, that sounds wrong. She moves into a spoon position if you're on your side, and snuggles up beside you when you're on your back. Cute.
There are, however, two drawbacks to Drew's invention, which he was showing off at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program Spring Show at Tisch School of the Arts: first, she's only 2D, and second, she's fully clothed. Some guys may want to wait for version 2.0. [New York Magazine]
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For some reason, the picture reminds me of some 80s music video.
Dont forget to turn it off if you happen to actually bring home a living, breathing, vagina-owning female. This thing would probably creep her out pretty bad. Actually, this thing creeps ME out.
Only if version 2.0 includes a interchangeable face/breast plate and no speaker.
So close yet so far away...
Being that he's from NYU he will also assure us all that his fake girlfriend is so much better then our real ones.
Isn't waiting for version 2.0 counter the path to the non-virtual kind?
@ripfire4: Something Ah-Ha would sing about.
he can't own a Mac product then.
Even if fully clothed, I'm sure sleeping with her will be much better than the naked/semi-naked ones I've slept before.
@nutbastard: that's news to blog about... Nutbastard Sensibilities are Shaken and Nutbastard has Sensibilities
This won't make wet dreams obsolete... not by a long shot.
You can't roll over and start humping on a 2-D girl.
And I thought MY girlfriend was lazy. GET OUT OF BED AND MAKE ME MY 2D BREAKFAST!
My god....that must be the lonliest college student.
Ever.
Probably forever and ever.
Come on! with clothes on?, that should be a touch screen!
3rd unmentioned drawback:
we are now all aware of just how lonely Drew really is.
@nutbastard: if you left it on, and the lady you bring home is ugly, you could just project this image onto her and it wouldn't be as bad.
I'm still waiting for my holodeck. I mean, why should Ryker have all the fun?
This is so damn scary. Seriously. WAY creepier than the robot lovers in Japan, at least THOSE are 'real'... jeeze...
"I'm afraid I can't let you do that sir"
I want to introduce you guys to someone....she's really shy and lay's down all the time, isn't she great!?
@TendoMentis: Nah, but he is probably the only one who's gone so far as to construct something like this.
@TendoMentis: You're a lot closer to the truth than you think. A few years ago NYU had rash of student suicides. The most prominent reason seemed like they all felt extremely isolated and lonely.
atleast, this 2D girlfriend would not break his heart.
@nutbastard: I suppose that'd be 1 one to get a 3 some going.
@GeekyNerdGuy: Something tells me that a lot of readers can't turn over and hump anything.
I smell counseling sessions in someone's future, with lots of discussions about "intimacy".
@Fierock: The lady nutbastard will share a bed with hopefully isn't ugly. I mean c'mon you think he'd notice? "Well what if he's drunk, Carmen?" I know that he still finds the lady beautiful :) he's a romantic like that.
And Burrows sobbed quietly, snuggled into his twin-size bed, with a mad gaze out into the darkness, at the glowing image of his dream lover.
@shamoononon: Well, even for those of us who have a woman in our beds, it's not like she does anything except throw an elbow, say something about getting up for work in the morning and then go back to sleep.
@GeekyNerdGuy: My poor, abused teenage bed would beg to differ, if it weren't still in counselling.
@Jimbuck: ROFL
@carmen89: i see the star's missing - didn't know they could be 'TAKEN AWAY' --ooooh the fiends.
@flyboy: Yeah someone took it away from me and no one has the decency to tell me wtf happened, :( bummer.
If he's cheating on me with a virtual boyfriend of her own, he'd be one-dimensional, right? How would I ever know? Fuck, I'm being e-cuckolded by a filmstrip!
Well, she has more personality than my last girlfriend.
@ripfire4:
+ Watch video
TAKE ON MEEEE!! Only she never has crazy wrench fights or comes to the "real" world.
@bailey_ca: Hahaha, I hope you had one of those mattress pads with the plastic lining ...
Why automate when you could simply outsource everything to India?
@carmen89: maybe it has something to do with being 'taken away - hard' - if you know what i mean.
This guy must know the real, 3-D girl enough to convince her to lay in his bed so he could record her for his art project. So, he might not be so lonely after all.
Also, this reminds me of a similar project a girl did in one of my college sculpture classes. She created a full-scale stuffed pillow shaped like a body for "spooning." It was basically a headless torso, legs and arm (she removed the right side arm because that always gets in the way anyways).
what is the difference between this and 2d pr0n? apart from the clothes..
if that's good enough for GIZ its good enough for us.
this is too funny.
for the record this was an art installation and not a product for sale.
nor in any way a "virtual girlfriend" as the original tongue-in-cheek article made it out to be.
also i like how the fact she's "fully clothed" and "2 D" are considered "drawbacks" to the gizmodo writer.
way to totally miss the point.
i'm assuming you didn't actually see the real installation.
@flyboy: Well Chen told me that my star was probably taken away accidently. So my perverted and disgusting comments had NOTHING to do with the requirements of quality comments,lol.
A virtual girlfriend is all this guy will be able to afford.
NYU - the worst $52,000 a year you'll ever spend
@carmen89: I agree with you that Nutbastard wouldn't need it for that purpose ;) The "you" I was referring to was any dude or dudette who happened to have one of these things.
revised comment: if "a dude or dudette" left it on, and the lady "a dude or dudette" brings home is ugly, "a dude or dudette" could just project this image onto her and it wouldn't be as bad.
@nutbastard: 'Dont forget to turn it off if you happen to actually bring home a living, breathing, vagina-owning female.'
As opposed to what other type of living, breathing female?
@Fierock: I mean when I drink..i ALWAYS look better than I think I do, so what I think you could do is when theres men out there who are drunk and think girls are hotter than they are. When they wake up in the morning and see what they just gave it to for four hours the night prior they could turn the image on and go back to bed with a smile...that is until she gets up and her ugly head rips through the image... poor guy never had a chance.
@Step666: you know... the ones you pick up downtown, they are like the 10 dollar mystery box. You pay and you KNOW you're gonna get something and when you take it home and unwrap it you could get stds, a penis, a vagina,both! gaping black hole.
Man, that is one sad college student.