{"id":485,"date":"2004-03-05T13:49:31","date_gmt":"2004-03-05T13:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/?p=485"},"modified":"2020-11-10T14:51:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T19:51:23","slug":"roujin_z_is_here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"roujin z is here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-paragraph\">you know\u2026ive been waiting how long for the future to arrive? im currently still scouting for a silver jumpsuit with bubble helmet, but for the time being we get to marvel at the latest in elderly-care technology in japan. an article today in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/03\/05\/international\/asia\/05JAPA.html?8hpib\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ny times<\/a> looks at some new technologies emerging in japan to aid the elderly, such as sanyos HIRB human washing machine (it stands for \u201charmony in roll-lo bathing\u201d\u2026whatever), a pair of powered robotic pants that allows the wearer to walk more freely, and a mobile \u201cwakamaru\u201d robot nurse that keeps an eye on the elderly. crazy shit yo. the HIRB human washing machine in particular is pretty interesting. the elderly sit in a chair, \u201cmerge\u201d with the wash unit, and the unit seals itself around them from the neck down and begins to clean them. its like a cyber-cleaning suit! well\u2026a stationary one anyway. they couldve made it more future-y by naming it something swishy and anime-esque, like \u201c<b>hyper-unit neo-washaru 2000-zeta<\/b>!!!\u201d the acronym HIRB isnt nearly as swish\u2026but the things still pretty coo.<br>the HIRB and the robot pants actually reminded me of a japanese anime from 1991, <a href=\"http:\/\/animeworld.com\/reviews\/roujinz.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roujin-z<\/a>\u2026which was about a <i>hyper-super-neo!!!<\/i> hospital bed that transforms into a robot, takes on the personality of its occupants deceased wife, and then takes him on a rampage through the city because the elderly man wanted to see the beach again. weird on so many levels, but still very coo\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/03\/05\/international\/asia\/05JAPA.html?8hpib\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">robotic help in japan<\/a> (via ny times)<br>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/animeworld.com\/reviews\/roujinz.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roujin-z info<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/robowash1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/robowash1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/robowash1-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/robowash1-250x359.jpg 250w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/robowash1-125x180.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>you know\u2026ive been waiting how long for the future to arrive? im currently still scouting for a silver jumpsuit with bubble helmet, but for the time being we get to marvel at the latest in elderly-care technology in japan. an article today in the ny times looks at some new technologies emerging in japan to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8388,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/8388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}