The 7 Most Unintentionally Creepy Places on the Internet. The Internet is enormous.
And given that it has, up to this point, been almost completely anonymous it's not surprising there are some pretty strange parts. So it takes a mind-bending, almost admirable level of dedication to stand out among the tangle of crazy. These are seven websites that prove the internet can still make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end ... Meet the dark side of YouTube (we know -- you thought YouTube was nothing but one giant dark side). Meet Edward Muscare, also known as Edarem: He looks like equal parts "unsettling uncle no longer allowed at the family reunion" and "half-mad grandpa screaming obscenities at the cat" with just a dash of Emperor Palpatine and two shakes of "fairy tale witch" thrown in for flavor.
Yep. "Ah, Marisa. Reborn-Baby.com is the website of an artist who displays and sells her handcrafted baby dolls, called "Reborn Babies," and don't worry, folks, it's not just a creepy name. That does no justice to the true horror of the thing. The 7 Creepiest Real-Life Robots. Scientists say they can now build near-perfect replications of a human being, and that they finally have the technology to bring the inanimate to life.
Scientists are liars. Here are seven robots that reached for "life-like," and came up with a big handful of your worst nightmares. The Geminoid was built by Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University. He's used a mold of his own body for the overall shape of the robot, programmed his body language and voice into it, and even implanted his own hair into the android's skull. Prof. The professor often speaks through the robot, rather than personally attending company board meetings. Why It's So, So Creepy On top of the simple implication that we can all be replaced by robots, the Geminoid is mostly creepy because it's not quite an exact replica of Ishiguro. It's like the Geminoid is always trying to figure out just what the fuck it's doing here, much like you probably are right now. (Dicks. Well! At first glance Jules isn't so bad. Revenge. 5 Real Robots Built To Love You... To Death. Everybody knows robots can't love.
It is their greatest failing as human analogues, their most profound tragedy as thinking entities and possibly their ultimate undoing (depending on whether or not they're facing the Care Bears that day). But science doesn't like to be told what they can, can't or just plain shouldn't do, so they're giving it a shot anyway: Here are five robots intended to either feel human emotions, inspire human emotions, or through their actions otherwise care for us in our hours of need.
Notice I say that's what they're “intended for.” All they actually do is murder the part of your mind responsible for registering danger, so that you will never feel safe again. Robots That Teach Us How to Love People in Japan don't like to have sex. So what are they doing to fight it? Nope, none of the above! According to Hiroki Kunimura, the inventor of Yotaro, that hideous monstrosity up there is meant to “trigger human emotions, so humans want to have their own baby.”
Teddy Bears. 5 Creepy Ways Humans Are Plunging Into the Uncanny Valley. Way back in 1970, a Japanese roboticist named Masahiro Mori came up with the term "uncanny valley", the theory that as robots get more human like, people will respond positively to them, but only up to the point where they still definitely look like robots.
Once they cross that point, or the uncanny valley, real humans will be disgusted by their robot counterparts, because they'll look almost like people, but not quite. And there is nothing we find more disturbing than that. But what we're finding today is that it's not robots we have to worry about; the uncanny valley is all around you. Just consider ... The Booming "Realistic" Sex Doll Industry While sex dolls have been around for decades, and men's desire to have sex with a woman who won't talk back or ask for anything has been around forever, it was an American who took them beyond a mere novelty and into the uncanny valley.
Artist Matt McMullen was trying to make art when he created his first lifelike miniature doll. But we digress.