開催終了1月17日ギリホリ英会話
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2009年01月15日 02:51 更新
今週も土曜日に開催します。
【開催時間】15：00〜17：00
【開催場所】アルバーニー通り上にあるティムホートン（ビュートとサーローの間）
皆さんの参加お待ちしてます。
「初めての方へ」
このギリホリ英会話はメンバー皆で集まって英語でコミュニケーションをとるのが目的です。特に英会話のレベルなどは関係なく、英語を話す機会がもっと欲しいな〜とか、英語を話すのがすきという人はどんどん参加して下さい。
集合場所は基本的にコーヒーショップですので、学校の授業のように硬いものではなく、気軽に何でも話せるような雰囲気ですので、とにかく皆で楽しんでやっていきます。
流れとしては最初の45〜60分でお互い自己紹介をし、残りの60〜75分で用意されたトピックについて話し合う、といった感じです。
もし興味がある人は是非気軽に参加してください。ちなみに参加費などはなしで、コーヒーを飲みたい人は、コーヒーを自分で購入するのにお金がかかる程度です。
英会話の後にも、定期的に食事にいったり、ビリヤードしに行ったりと活動してます。皆で楽しみましょう！！
【連絡先】
ヒデカナックス携帯： 778-231-4855
ヒデカナックスメールアドレス：hidecanucks@gmail.com
※ 特に参加、不参加の電話連絡はいりません。
【開催時間】15：00〜17：00
【開催場所】アルバーニー通り上にあるティムホートン（ビュートとサーローの間）
皆さんの参加お待ちしてます。
「初めての方へ」
このギリホリ英会話はメンバー皆で集まって英語でコミュニケーションをとるのが目的です。特に英会話のレベルなどは関係なく、英語を話す機会がもっと欲しいな〜とか、英語を話すのがすきという人はどんどん参加して下さい。
集合場所は基本的にコーヒーショップですので、学校の授業のように硬いものではなく、気軽に何でも話せるような雰囲気ですので、とにかく皆で楽しんでやっていきます。
流れとしては最初の45〜60分でお互い自己紹介をし、残りの60〜75分で用意されたトピックについて話し合う、といった感じです。
もし興味がある人は是非気軽に参加してください。ちなみに参加費などはなしで、コーヒーを飲みたい人は、コーヒーを自分で購入するのにお金がかかる程度です。
英会話の後にも、定期的に食事にいったり、ビリヤードしに行ったりと活動してます。皆で楽しみましょう！！
【連絡先】
ヒデカナックス携帯： 778-231-4855
ヒデカナックスメールアドレス：hidecanucks@gmail.com
※ 特に参加、不参加の電話連絡はいりません。
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2009年01月16日 05:32
今週のトピックです。
To the casual observer, she's the very embodiment of a lady. Dressed demurely in a blushing pink blouse, hands sheathed in dainty white gloves, Aiko - quite possibly Canada's first android - sits patiently, ready to engage in polite conversation using her 13,000-word vocabulary. She'll recognize your face, shake how-do-you-do, read you a story, add sums and deliver the current weather.
But underneath her wispy auburn hair and peaches and cream complexion is an anatomically correct silicone feminine robot, easily modified for any number of uses. Of course peddling her to the sex industry would be lucrative, her creator agrees, but he insists he has far more noble aspirations for Aiko - which means "love child" in Japanese.
"To be honest with you, sex sells," said Trung Le, 33, after cradling the five-foot tall, 27-kilogram life-like doll on his lap for photographs in his parents' Brampton, Ont., home where he lives. "It sells, but it's not like (she's) one of those $99 (dolls), right? It would be very expensive (to use that way). It would be cheaper just to spend money on my own, real girlfriend."
Le doesn't have a girlfriend right now, though, because he's been much too busy over the past year and a half developing the umber feminine robot. (To those who contend Aiko is his girlfriend, he has these words: "I don't care what they say.")
Costing him $25,000 so far in parts - including a sex doll from Japan for a body, sensors on her head, arms, face and breasts, oodles of bone-structure mechanics, a camera in her neck and computer processors - the project has moved from hobby to full-fledged passion. His hopes for the humanoid's use are wide, varied and all in the name of helping humanity. Le sees possible applications within homes for the elderly, inside hospitals or the military, working reception or providing airport security.
He also sees her as a research tool for developing fully-sensing limb replacements for people who've had an amputation. In fact, she's so sensitive to touch if someone gets a little too rough, she cries out indignantly. If they're really pushing the boundaries, she moves in for a slap.
Le's older brother Quang, 35, doesn't entirely share his brother's modest views. Having been financially supporting his brother since Trung Le left his job about three months ago, he's trying to convince him to think big. And if that means moving towards the erotic, so be it.
"I don't see why not," Quang Le said. "I see a big application for this in any industry, you just have to tailor her to that industry." With Trung Le's skills, it wouldn't even be that hard to do, the trouble is finding the financial backing.
So far, though, no one has been willing to pony up the estimated $12,000 in parts for his next goal: to give Aiko the ability to walk. "Most people ... say it's fake," he said, explaining that when people watch his You Tube demonstrations, they think it's CGI or that she's pre-programmed.
Le, a former software engineer, graduated with a chemistry degree from York University. He built his first robot for a school science fair around the age of 8, shortly after his family moved to Canada from Japan, where they were living after leaving his birth country of Vietnam.
Every time he submitted an entry to the fair, however, he was somehow disqualified. So he backed away from his hi-tech dreams. Then more recently, he found the desire to create stirring within him again. "I just want to see how far I can go, basically," he said. "It's one guy versus the corporation. (It's) like 50 engineers and million-dollar budgets against one guy, from his home, with his credit cards."
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