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Faceless Droids Stalk The Wealthy

Faceless droids have been popping up all over the UK. They've been chauffeured into Elton John's White Ball, spotted at the Harrod's sale and are enjoying a tennis match at Wimbledon. The latest addition to the scifi robot and alien advertising craze has begun to spill over into real life, thanks to the wonders of viral marketing. But this ad for a over-priced sports car, the Lotus, takes the alien cake on over-the-top ads. Apparently you're a faceless droid until you drop a few hundred thousand pounds to "buy" a personality in the form of a Lotus. Click through for more pictures of the faceless creatures including super creepy video of a faceless man in the crowd at the Harrod's sale. More »

12:20 PM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By Meredith Woerner
5,318 views, 46 comments

Latest by hakubak: @tazo: "They look like regular white folk to me. The definition of whiteness, really." (Sigh) How is that not a racist comment?White people are bland? Unremarkable? What's your point?How many similar comments could one make about any other race before tasting the more »

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The Creepiest Sex Robots In Mass Media Right Now

Ashton Kutcher posed as a robot being "tested" by his creator, in this photoshoot for vMan magazine with famous photographer Mario Testino. (See gallery below, completely with weirdly exaggerated robo-package in his briefs.) He says he got the idea from a Gatorade ad in which someone's being tested for their physical performance, and then he started thinking, what if God could test us, his creations, to see if we're fulfilling our function? And then somehow that led to him thinking about a robot being tested by his actual creator. Actually, his explanation is less cogent than that. But actually, Ashton's only the third creepiest and most inappropriately sexy robot in mass media at the moment. Want to see the two that are worse? More »

4:30 PM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
5,282 views, 23 comments

Latest by n/a: the svedka bot looks the slightest bit like tilda swinton. i like tilda swinton; the robot, not so much. call me crazy, but even though she's too skinny (shocker), i kinda dug the heineken bot... more »