For a Friday funny video we feature a 70s USA advertisement for Bionic Woman dolls and the Bionic Beauty Salon. Enjoy your Bionic woman and the knob-controlled “Beauty” parameter.

Since early December 2007, a new author has been publishing articles on Think Artificial under my name. This author is not human, but intelligent software created by myself to relieve the pressure of regular posting. Currently, the system has posted over 20 articles without breaking cover.

Taking its cues from Google News Alerts on “robotics”, the system analyzes news articles — identifying and extracting relevant lines of text and generating a shorter version of the article. The text is then paraphrased using preset tunings to mimic my writing style. The ultimate result is an article that only needs my one-click administrator approval to be published.

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(”Hello Ma’am, we’re selling bionic prosthetics”)

Look! Product placement.

Brilliant. Unfortunately I have no idea who made this poster or took the pic.

How are you? How’s the harvest?

I hope you’ve managed to scrape a million or so addresses from us meatmachines today. I’m sure you have, you’re so clever by now — and we’re so stupid. I’m sure you’re wondering; yes, this letter was written many years ago and yes, it isn’t addressed to your specific ID. But as you read on you’ll come to realize its delivery date is exactly today, and it’s intended specifically for you!

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After a week of talking flesh fusing with machines, animal experiments and other under-the-skin issues, it’s important to mix it up with some funny videos! Yarr, here be geeky humor.

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©2007 Hrafn Th. Thórisson

Here’s a really short but funny video. The CGI effects are pretty nice, and the robot design is kind of hot too. Reminds me of Nuvo.

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As brilliant as many successful AI & robotics developers are, robots often lack aesthetic value. A recent robot debut revealed such a hideous design that I felt compelled to write up a summary of the world’s ugliest robots. So in short, this post has nothing to do with the brilliant technologies behind some of these robots — just their pretty (or not) little faces.

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You thought I was talking about metal screws that hold him together, right? Not exactly. He’s screwed, so to speak. Well, you might say all this screwing is holding two of them together. Okay, enough of screwy puns. Check out this Flickr picture set of toy T-800 Terminator skeletons in various Kama Sutra positions, under the album title “Make Love, Not War“. Not all that funny by themselves, really. The funny part are the names the T-800s came up with for the positions, which are written in binary. The position on the side here is called “01001101 01100001 01111000 01101001 01101101 01110101 01101101 00100000 01010111 01100001 01110010 01110000 00001101 00001010” which translates to “Maximum Warp”. [via Geekologie]