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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Horrors THIS IS HOW SKYNET WILL DESTROY US ALL
Posted by Erik Henriksen on Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:59 AM
TED is a large, wall-based installation consisting of an array of 80 Teddy Ruxpin dolls that speak emotional content gathered from the web via synthetic speech with animated mouths. The speaking of the emotional content is accompanied by one of twenty-four musical vignettes that have been paired to the emotional content being spoken.
More terrifying information at Severe Enterprises. Via io9.
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