Comments on: Voice-stress ice-cream dispenser increases portions for the miserable http://boingboing.net/2007/09/11/voicestress-icecream.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2007/09/11/voicestress-icecream.html#comment-13062 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-13062 It woud be verry easy jst to sound sad to get more ice-cream It woud be verry easy jst to sound sad to get more ice-cream

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2007/09/11/voicestress-icecream.html#comment-12807 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12807 We all scream for ice cream! ...literally. We all scream for ice cream! …literally.

]]> By: Jonathan Stampf http://boingboing.net/2007/09/11/voicestress-icecream.html#comment-12817 Jonathan Stampf Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12817 Instead of an infinite loop you may experience a downward spiral if you're unhappy because you're overweight. It might have been more appropriate to have a drink dispenser that makes weaker drinks the more you slur your words. Instead of an infinite loop you may experience a downward spiral if you’re unhappy because you’re overweight.
It might have been more appropriate to have a drink dispenser that makes weaker drinks the more you slur your words.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2007/09/11/voicestress-icecream.html#comment-12825 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12825 That'd be the ars electronica, not ArsTechnica. http://www.aec.at/en/index.asp That’d be the ars electronica, not ArsTechnica.

http://www.aec.at/en/index.asp

]]> By: dan winckler http://boingboing.net/2007/09/11/voicestress-icecream.html#comment-12834 dan winckler Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12834 It's Ars Electronica, not Ars Technica. ;) http://www.aec.at/ It’s Ars Electronica, not Ars Technica. ;) http://www.aec.at/

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2007/09/11/voicestress-icecream.html#comment-12859 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12859 What if you are miserable because you are fat ;) What if you are miserable because you are fat ;)

]]> By: Miss Cellania http://boingboing.net/2007/09/11/voicestress-icecream.html#comment-12898 Miss Cellania Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12898 I would be very sad if I didn't get enough ice cream. I would be very sad if I didn’t get enough ice cream.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2007/09/11/voicestress-icecream.html#comment-13168 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-13168 That cone looks awfully small. That cone looks awfully small.

]]> By: deusdiabolus http://boingboing.net/2007/09/11/voicestress-icecream.html#comment-12932 deusdiabolus Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12932 Inappropriate caloric intake or not, this man is about to be a hero to millions. Particularly ladies and children. I wonder if there will be a function that automatically adds fudge or chocolate cookies? Inappropriate caloric intake or not, this man is about to be a hero to millions. Particularly ladies and children.

I wonder if there will be a function that automatically adds fudge or chocolate cookies?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2007/09/11/voicestress-icecream.html#comment-13203 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-13203 What if people reaslised how the system works? They might pretend to be unhappy to get more icecream. Simulating an emotion can often make us actually feel that way, so it'd better be very good icecream! What if people reaslised how the system works? They might pretend to be unhappy to get more icecream. Simulating an emotion can often make us actually feel that way, so it’d better be very good icecream!

]]> By: jphilby http://boingboing.net/2007/09/11/voicestress-icecream.html#comment-12983 jphilby Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12983 Gosh. I wonder if that'd work at Starbucks. "Double" *sob* "tall caramel" *sob* "macchiato" Worth a try I guess ... the tip I read about the short cappuccino works. Gosh. I wonder if that’d work at Starbucks.
“Double” *sob* “tall caramel” *sob* “macchiato”

Worth a try I guess … the tip I read about the short cappuccino works.

]]> By: bloggo http://boingboing.net/2007/09/11/voicestress-icecream.html#comment-12990 bloggo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12990 Interesting gadget. Now we will have people whose original stress has disappeared because it has been eaten away and are now stressed out because they are too fat from all the ice-cream. Nevertheless the pleasure of eating all this ice-cream could quite possibly outweigh the side-effects. Interesting gadget. Now we will have people whose original stress has disappeared because it has been eaten away and are now stressed out because they are too fat from all the ice-cream. Nevertheless the pleasure of eating all this ice-cream could quite possibly outweigh the side-effects.

]]> By: micah http://boingboing.net/2007/09/11/voicestress-icecream.html#comment-12736 micah Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12736 it seems as though this would create an infinite loop: as you get more ice cream and become happier, you get less ice cream and become sadder, thus restarting the cycle. it seems as though this would create an infinite loop: as you get more ice cream and become happier, you get less ice cream and become sadder, thus restarting the cycle.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2007/09/11/voicestress-icecream.html#comment-12754 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12754 Let's just hope your misery isn't tied to your obesity! Let’s just hope your misery isn’t tied to your obesity!

]]> By: Ian Holmes http://boingboing.net/2007/09/11/voicestress-icecream.html#comment-12792 Ian Holmes Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12792 as a veteran of flaky voice-recognition on corporate phone menus, i'd be more concerned that the machine wouldn't recognize just how pissed i was. (not to mention the fact that i might be upset because of my high cholesterol levels in the first place) as a veteran of flaky voice-recognition on corporate phone menus, i’d be more concerned that the machine wouldn’t recognize just how pissed i was. (not to mention the fact that i might be upset because of my high cholesterol levels in the first place)

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