That's an interesting point. In a way, it could be argued that the skill needed in order to make any given instrument produce whatever it is that you've got in your head could represent a sort of ideational friction. Beardyman has obviously spent most his life practicing with his voice, and as such, his voice has become his instrument of choice. However, as he pointed out, he eventually realized that his voicebox simply wouldn't be able to do all the things he wanted it to do, and because this was an issue of biology, there was no linear path through this particular obstacle.

So he had to get a bit lateral instead.

And really, the same goes for guitars. They started out accoustic, but then somebody decided that he wanted to do more with them; and thus the electric guitar was born.

Creative people of all stripes tend to spend their lives looking for a high-fidelity method of getting the stuff inside their heads into everybody else's heads, and Beardyman is no different in that regard.

>> ^FlowersInHisHair:

>> ^Fantomas:
Looking at the cabling connecting it to the laptop, I doubt this will be a retail product.
Or if it is, it's going to have some expensive electronics inside.

Expensive? Motors, motion sensors, flashing lights and a voicebox? They could definitely make this affordable.
For some reason I thought it had a motion tracker that told the servos to aim the guns directly at you. But it doesn't which makes much less impressive.

>> ^Fantomas:

Looking at the cabling connecting it to the laptop, I doubt this will be a retail product.
Or if it is, it's going to have some expensive electronics inside.

Expensive? Motors, motion sensors, flashing lights and a voicebox? They could definitely make this affordable.

Robot Baby needs a new voicebox!

They should just replace her voicebox with a party favor.

say what you want about the obvious bias, when it was not democrats in charge these people were not calling for secessions and rebellions against a supposed "tyrrany."

thats what the right doesn't seem to get - most of us are looking at their bullshit and asking outselves, what the fuck drugs are these people on? it wasn't so with liberal activists, quite simply because they didn't spend their time calling for revolutions and such. they were engaged with grassroots efforts to do symbolic and ultimately meaningless things to send a message... but it was never a threat.

some minority probably did call for executions of the president or whatever the fuck (any minority of a minority tends to be extreme enough to pull such crazy shit), but the right and their voicebox (fnc) doing this is not helping them at all with the majority view.

as much as i hate the right-wing punditry stirring their shit, i secretly hope they keep doing it and lose election after election to regular people who are afraid - as a result of this shit - that the right wing is insane and will destroy the country.

i say this as a libertarian... healthy dissent is good and the intelligent articulation of dissent is even better, but if the dissent has no purpose or logic and is simply placed behind extremist shouts suggesting a violent uprising, it becomes indistinguishable from jihad movements.

kudos to the right for their well-developed voicebox. too bad they didn't spend any money to understand how to deliver a message that wouldn't make normal people want to vomit.

IF YOUR BASE WAS ENOUGH TO RETAIN CONTROL, YOU WOULD STILL BE IN CONTROL.

>> ^dag:
Persephone asks: Why is there a cow mooing at the end?


Because their voiceboxes are incapable of screaming in horror like humans? X D

<voicebox> It's coming right for us! </voicebox>

oh, and it's called a Laryngostimizer, not a voicebox, whatever.......

mockingbirds and starlings pick up human sounds sometimes (cellphone rings were first reported back in 2001).

I once heared a tiny blue canary in a zoo do the running water of a creek... it was incredible.

nerdy biology fact; many birds have a bifurcates (split) trachea and can control both sides of their syrinx (voicebox) independently, allowing these birds to make two sounds at once, and to complicate the sound of their calls by going from one side to the other.

awesome post, by-the-way.