Robot Band Plays Music, Obsesses About its Online Followers
Like an aspiring indie band, the Cybraphon has many instruments, plays them on an irregular schedule, likes to have an audience around it ? and obsesses over comments on its blog, the number of friends it has on Facebook and how many fans follow it on MySpace.
The difference is that it is a handcrafted musical robot and one whose emotion meter swings from delirium to desolation based on its online popularity at any given moment.
?The Cybraphon has an almost egotistical desire for fame,? says Simon Kirby, one of the creators of the robot.
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anyone wanna suggest a playlist for this destroyer of hipster economics?
Like an aspiring indie band, the Cybraphon has many instruments, plays them on an irregular schedule, likes to have an audience around it ? and obsesses over comments on its blog, the number of friends it has on Facebook and how many fans follow it on MySpace.
The difference is that it is a handcrafted musical robot and one whose emotion meter swings from delirium to desolation based on its online popularity at any given moment.
?The Cybraphon has an almost egotistical desire for fame,? says Simon Kirby, one of the creators of the robot.
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anyone wanna suggest a playlist for this destroyer of hipster economics?