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Mark Frauenfelder at 3:19 pm Mon, Oct 22, 2012

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  • saint_al

    If it doesn’t poo, it’s not a dog. Unless it’s electric poo…?
    /rules rewrite needed

    • Preston Sturges

      “Electric Poo?”  I’m totally naming my band that!

  • MikeKStar

    Hey buddy, don’t take this the wrong way but that’s one ugly mutt you got there!

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

    Page 496?  That’s some magazine.

    • Antinous / Moderator

      I guess that you don’t read Vogue. The September issue was over 900 pages.

      • niktemadur

        Yikes!  Also probably the only magazine in which readers don’t complain about the 80% ad content.

        EDIT: To be honest, I enjoy leafing through all those fashion ads.

        • Antinous / Moderator

          In pretty much any kind of design magazine, the ads are at least as interesting as the articles.

  • http://www.geekman.ca GeekMan

    But… can it love me?

  • Preston Sturges

    Miles Monroe:
    Is he housebroken or will he be leaving little batteries all over the floor?
    -Sleeper

    • niktemadur

      Then he probably comes back after a while and eats those little batteries.

  • acerplatanoides

    I prefer the british version

    • Felton / Moderator

      Danger, Mistress!

    • http://www.nothinginside.net mindysan33

       Good show!  I was actually was going to post that if someone had not already done it… but I believe in the happy mutants that haunt these comments.  You guys always come through!

  • http://twitter.com/writebastard Ian Wood

    That kid looks happy that he’s found a new dog to take apart.

    • http://twitter.com/jondean jondean

      Right?! That “child” is horrifying.

      • http://www.genreville.com/ Josh Jasper

        http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbl3djayeJ1rv227po1_500.jpg

        • http://twitter.com/writebastard Ian Wood

          Ding!

      • KBert

         I think he suspects…
        there’s so much to be suspicious of!

      • Guest

        I think he might be electrical, too. And look at that “women’s” gesticulation.

        • http://twitter.com/beep54orama B E Pratt

           That’s a flapper nun blessing Our Electric Pooch in order to banish the demon which has obviously possessed the child. The man, as usual, is clueless.

      • huskerdont

        Little dude’s like a cross between Angus Young and Frank Sinatra.

  • Bob Webb

    Do android dream of electric dogs?

  • rattypilgrim

    You mean that 3 wheeled green box with a black line drawing on the front that has vague references to a canine face isn’t a dog?! 
    Wow, do I feel stupid!

  • http://twitter.com/Theranthrope Theranthrope

    Color me unimpressed…

    This primitive electric dog of 1929 is clearly no match for the ATOMIC DOG.

    • Preston Sturges

      Bow-wow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeah

  • Preston Sturges

    I’m not sure the magnetic steering mechanism (I assume the cane has a magnet) would work if it relies on a “sheet iron magnetic shield.”  That is a classic feature of perpetual motion machines. 

    • hacky

      that shield is there to prevent the flux from the motor and solenoid and relays from deflecting the needles. 

  • hacky

    See, if someone were to make this dog nowadays  it would be audrino powered and use cameras to track the end of the cane.  There’s something to be said for analog simplicity.