Don’t hide it Japan, you’re just doing this to make cat girls
Why stop there? I want my dog and fox and wolf girls too
How about horse girls?
Nothing comes between a horse girl and her daddy’s money.
Luckily you can already get those at your local stable AND with a bit of leather at your local bdsm club!
Won’t someone think of the poor working class furries? A fur suit can already cost 10 or 20 grand. Now they’re going to have to add cyborg body parts to the mix as well? Talk about gentrification!
Gerontofication, in this case.
Gentoworifation
just get your slightly used weirdly moist tail used at half off!
The rich are going to take every last thing from us
wait what. i made one for 200 bucks that the theater program i made it for is still using 30 years later (i build shit to last). you mean i could make money doing that?
I’m not in that community myself, but from what I hear a high quality for suit can cost $10-20k. Not sure what differences in construction may exist between those and what you made. But some artists definitely make decent livings making them.
Cooling systems, animatronics, durability.
I’m not part of that community, but I’ve built props for advertisements and museum installations; durability and reliability are where most of the money is, especially in low volume products.
Mmhmm. A nice head is 2kUSD or more. A whole custom suit starts at maybe 10, 15k, and can easily exceed 20.
I can believe it for the head. I had to build a horse head the next year and it was hard as fuck.
Also these ears will help to uh, absorb the echoes and extra noise of the world around you. Yeah.
Looks more like Mecha-Godzilla, tho.
So, uh, you reckon you could fit eight of those on one person?
I think we can do just four
They need to increase their birthrate somehow.
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Good, gooood. It’s all coming together.Is it prehensile? This could lead to octopus-like abilities if you added more than one.
catgirl mecha, if we’re being precise.
This feels more like monkey nannas. An entirely more niche kink.
contrary to popular beliefs real cat girls do exist in Japan. there is more information on the internet https://redlib.orangenet.cc/r/realscatgirls . unfortunately it’s on reddit not on lemmy (yet).
hehe fuck you
:3
who tf upvoted this
it was you wasnt it
no, I removed the default upvote
Good shit
How about bionic ear appendages to combat hearing loss?
Hearing aids?
No, cat ears.
Is that like a sexually transmitted ear infection?
No, it’s aurally transmitted.
Nice 👉 👉
Soon…
I posted this comment on another thread:
My elation can’t be measured.
I have good news and bad news
Ok. I just want the good news.
A robotic tail exists
Imagine working in a retirement home and one day one of the residents tells you “I am taking part in this clinical trial” and then she comes back as Doctor fucking Octopus.
Fuck. Yes. Id make so many comments about killing spider man.
I just want a third arm, is that too much to ask? Imagine how many tasks would be easier with that.
Say a prayer to the Four-Armed Emperor.
Is that photo AI? All the videos of the real prototype look substantially different.
At best it’s concept art, tho that thin strap probably wouldn’t serve the purpose they’re looking for. At worst it’s generated by clickbait article writers.
How could they pass up an “electrified facehugger penis sheath” image like this?
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/japan-robotic-tail-intl-hnk-trnd/index.html
fr tho it’s pretty cool research
I’m just imagining the scene in a sci fi comedy.
“I thought you said we were getting mechanical tails? Why the Hell is this attached to my front?”
“Experiments determined that this was actually the more effective and cheaper option. Don’t worry, a front tail works just fine for balance!”
That one looks attached at the front …
You’re right, it seems. That video is old (6 years), but I couldn’t find any photos or videos that look substantially different from it.
“Arque tail” is the keywords to search for, if anyone wants to do their own research.
Do people just use “AI” now instead of “Photoshopped”
What kind of office chair has one leg that’s 50% longer than the others and why is there a tube extending directly downward from the ceiling to above that chair? People cranking out this sort of thing absolutely use AI instead of Photoshop now.
Now if it can stab people and drain them of their bioenergy, I can reach my final form!
I’m supposed to be cleaning but now I’m laughing too hard imagining some “saturday morning cartoon” tokusatsu show about a squad of mecha-grandmas.
Tonight on Lifetime-Japan, Speed Walkers - A motley crew of septuagenarians must defeat the evil doer, osteoarthritis man, else they will be forced to deal with painful joints! Can these grizzled grandmas come out victorious? Tune in to find out!
tokusatsu
What does this word mean?
It encompasses a few genres of live action japanese tv/movies but I was thinking like power rangers/super sentai.
Furry costumes just got more lifelike.
I have a feeling a completely different audience has a definite interest. They would just cover it in the same fur as the rest of their costume.
I was hoping for research into genetically adding one to a human, but I’ll.take this.
Comes later.
Can’t we just find a way to upgrade the earth animals instead?
We can have real furries that way
Upgrade?
Have we even seriously tried opening dialogue with elephant or whale tribes?
I know we jacked off a bunch of dolphins we raised in captivity, but, like… Did we send anthropologists anf linguists?
Just because we could talk to a whale wouldn’t make them a furry. They need to be anthropoidal to be a furry.
I said upgrade.
Let’s make their bodies more enjoyable for us to see. If we never meet aliens, let’s make them.
But that’s not an upgrade, it would be a lateral mov. Maube there are whales or eleohsnts with the same weird kinks as us; we don’t know: never asked.
Did we send anthropologists anf linguists?
Yes actually, we’ve been studying the language of whales and cetaceans for decades, the study you are referencing, which ended tragically, was part of that ongoing research.
We are closer than ever to unlocking whale language, and have identified several key areas that are hinting that they have actual grammar, such as connecting sounds between repeated “terms” but even with our best tech, we may never be able to hold a conversation with them, as we live in such vastly different worlds that we can assume that they have extremely different perceptions and may not have the foundational experiences necessary to share words and language.
Dude, we jack off about first contact math abd how we would talk to aliens. Seti was(is?) A thing.
If we cant talk to fuckers whose antique bones my grandmother decorated her room with, whose grandmother read by the light of the burning flesh of? We have no god damn right to be calling ourselves intelligent or civilized as a species.
And gave them LSD! Funded by NASA.
I don’t think I want another class of slave/sex trafficking victims, we have enough problems with manmade horrors creating hell on earth for sentient creatures, we don’t need to make them sapient as well.
Nah, let’s do it.
Better to have practice right now than to commit the same mistakes when we meet aliens out there.
This planet is our cradle. Our place of learning. Our tutorial level.
My so-called government just canceled nearly every space probe and scientific endeavor planned for the next decade, de-orbited two climate monitoring satellites for no reason other than performative politics, put a stop to windmill energy farms, effectively pardoned one of the worst sex traffickers in the world to avoid being found complicit, armed a genocide, and the supreme court is deciding on how legal it is to arrest someone for not being white.
I’mma say naw dog. The only way I could possibly condone uplifting any non-human creatures at this point is if they’re designed to surpass us in every way and utterly overpower our species almost immediately so that we don’t make it out into the stars. We are a scourge, a pox upon our world. I didn’t even get into factory farming and what we’re doing every day to animals for profit.
I say this as someone who grew up watching Star Trek and reading Sagan. The stars are not for us. We are the same horrible primates who smashed each others heads in with rocks for a million years before we discovered agriculture and money. Same creature, more complicated excuses to smash heads.
Ok cancer cell. Go whine in your pathetic self esteem and let us humanity fuck yeah followers to bask in our glorious species.
The stars are ours for the taking and xenos should tremble. A safe galaxy is a human galaxy.
You already have the nerves there, and it’s quite trivial to connect them to a neurotransmitter, especially since the patent expired.
The next thing I need is an articulated mouth and the ability to spit fire. And spikes on my back!
For balance as well, obviously.
Can I… uhhm… get one too? Maybe a little more fluffy? Ohh, and it would be nice if it could wag too… U know… Just for… uhhm… balancing purposes…
(‘~‘; )
👉👈
Theres a few companies that make moving tails (and wings) for a few hundred USD, but they tend to be waitless rather than designed for balancing
Are the wings flyable ?
Have you seen how big a hang glider is? That’s roughly what a human-mass creature needs to fly.
Yeah, that’ll help elderly people with mobility issues — hucking another 5 kg of metal, motors and batteries around.
The way it’s depicted, the weight will be felt around the center point of the body. That’s where it exerts the least force. Also I contest the notion that a difference of 5kg is that significant, even in elderly people.
One of the typical bits of advice for elderly folks walking around is a five pound limit on carried items, so five kilos is probably going to affect things more. Poor mobility is a downward line though, not a sudden switch that is flipped, so there is a range of walking difficulties and I’m sure some of that range will be helped by a device like this.
Carried itens put strain along the sholders and entire spine, and contribute to a high center of gravity. Waist mounted items (like this tail) put strain on only the hips and legs, and in the most stable way. I’d only be worried if there was a particular problem with hips or legs.
Yup. That’s the most cost-effctive solution to the elderly falling problem. Trust me there is no other reason we are doing this.
My dreams of kick boxing like a kangaroo may finally come truee
Money for elderly that can prevent them from needing very expensive nursing home care is a huge market with no limit if the product works well. Especially for Japan but really everywhere will have increasingly large cohorts of their elderly people with not enough young people to care for them.
Cat girls or helping the elderly walk steadily?
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It’s Japan, it was definitely Cat Girls first, literally any justification to spend money developing this second.
If it were me it’d be a dragon tail, but to each their own.
All I want is a wiggling bunny tail 🥺
I’d do the Saiyan monkey tail, I already have everything else covered.
Will it stop my girlfriend from poking at my butthole when I’m above her on the stairs?
Nothing will
To be fair you are supposed to get her back when she’s above you, its unwritten relationship code.
Now you can iron tail her if she tries some shit. Let her know who’s the real Pokémon master.
I can think of another demographic that would like this…
It’s Japan, we all know what they really invented it for. But they needed something acceptable to put on the grant application
