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Muse Food – AI Sketchers

By Cynthia Sax on February 27, 2023

Why do robots and other manufactured entities often resemble humans?

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas this year, the Dear Wonderful Hubby and I, for example, spotted this sketching robot manufactured by Xorbis.

People sat for the robot and the robot sketched them. It was very good at capturing its subject’s features and expressions.

And it had a VERY human-looking face.

I asked one of the designers why it had a human-looking face and he said it made people more comfortable.

We, humans, like being around entities who look like us.

I suspect that won’t change in the future.

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Raw Desires

His human female is attempting to kill him.
This cyborg finds that adorable.

Raw, a K model cyborg, is one of the lucky warriors who has located his genetic match. He hears his human female’s voice over the communication lines and immediately processes she is his.

Winning her affections will be a greater challenge. Battle has always been Raw’s focus. The rough-and-tough warrior has no idea how to engage anyone’s tender emotions.

Fortunately, he isn’t alone in the universe. His unmatched male friends help him craft a plan.

All Raw has to do is relay a few unsettlingly sweet words to his female and give her the thoroughly unfunctional wall decoration he has obtained. He projects she will then jump into his big, strong arms and beg him to claim her.

Taytu isn’t jumping anywhere. She has one mission—kill every cyborg in existence.

The huge, handsome male traveling to meet with her is her first target. His rough hands, firm lips, and sparkling, energy-infused eyes won’t save him from her vengeance. She has trained vigorously for this moment, and she won’t fail at her assigned task.

The cyborg will die.

Raw Desires is an enemies-to-lovers Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.

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NASA at CES 2016

By Cynthia Sax on January 20, 2016

I was SUPER excited to see that NASA was at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). This was their first time at the show and they brought all the tech a space junkie could want to see.

There were mini rovers, a Mars simulator, and plenty of people to answer questions.

Robonaut 2 made an appearance. He is still legless, our poor humanoid robot. Robonaut 2 was designed to test the feasibility of robots taking on the more mundane tasks in space. He’s been to the International Space Station where astronauts tested his capabilities.

And there were humans at the booth, including Astronaut Dr. Don Thomas, who was signing autographs (folks were sneaking in questions also).

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Crash And Burn

Crash was manufactured to be one of the best warriors in the universe. The cyborg has spent many human lifespans fighting the enemy. But, unlike his battle-loving brethren, he doesn’t enjoy killing. When he escapes the Humanoid Alliance, he vows to never end another life.

Then he meets Safyre, an infuriating human female, and he considers breaking his vow.

Safyre will do anything to save her friend, the being she loves like a sister. She’ll ravish a huge hunky cyborg, kiss his best friend, and invoke scorching hot desires the male never realized he could feel. Dark soulful eyes, a quick wit, and a tempestuous passion won’t divert her from her mission.

Love, and a planet-destroying weapon, however, might stop her permanently.

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Talking Technology On Dear Author

By Cynthia Sax on January 18, 2015

I’m talking about some of the technologies I loved at the CES on Dear Author today

http://dearauthor.com/features/letters-of-opinion/guest-post-the-best-of-the-consumer-electronics-show-from-a-readers-perspective-cynthia-sax/

Here is a snippet…

“I had the good fortune of attending the Consumer Electronics Show ( http://www.cesweb.org/about-us ) in Las Vegas. This celebration of emerging technology has over 3,600 exhibitors and 2.2 million net square feet of display space, with innovations ranging from life-sized androids to Girl Scouts promoting their cookie app, from automatic-ordering refrigerators to virtual reality everything.”

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Bee Carter has been offered everything she has ever dreamed of—a caring, lasting relationship with a handsome, often charming billionaire; the permanent home she’s never had but has always craved; and wealth to buy the designer fashions she loves, support her hard-working mother, and ensure her acceptance by Chicago’s elite.

To obtain what she’s desired for so long, she has to do only two things: Walk away from her best friend, a woman who is destined to betray her … and end her passionate nightly encounters with a certain tattooed biker, a former Marine who can never give her what she needs.

Her answer should be clear, but the heart has a way of complicating even the most straightforward decisions.

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My Recap Of The Consumer Electronics Show (CES)

By Cynthia Sax on January 14, 2015

Last week, I had the good fortune of attending the Consumer Electronics Show, the giant technology and innovation celebration in Las Vegas, one of my favorite cities. I’m writing a series of posts for Dear Author, covering the emerging technologies that will change a reader’s world. I thought, today, I’d share my overall impressions and a few of the fun and unusual things I saw.

This was my first year at the show representing myself as a blogger from the romance community (I usually attend as a business blogger) and I was pleasantly surprised by the reaction. Sales and marketing representatives (reps) were interested and respectful, many of them commenting on how big a market romance is.

I was also impressed by the number of female reps and attendees. In the past, the CES has been a bit of a sausage fest, a boy’s paradise. There were the infamous booth bunnies and everything (from the line ups to be tasered to the first person shooter video games) was targeted to men.

This year, there were fewer scantily clad women manning the booths (and it seemed as though these women were chosen for their intelligence as well as their good looks – many of them knew the products) and the displays were more female friendly. I was taken seriously and not simply viewed as ‘the wife’ (ironically, I’ve always covered the show for blogs and other media sources while my dear wonderful hubby attends simply to stay abreast of new technology).

Smart Rings - You can view texts on these finger-sized devices

I believe one of the reasons for this is because technology is now an integrated part of our lives. There were automatic-ordering refrigerators (they send messages to online grocery stores when we run low of milk) and cars that drive themselves, smart rings (we can answer calls and receive text message on devices that fit on our fingers) and robotic window cleaners.

One of the concepts I loved was the virtual clothing and grooming centers. Toshiba’s virtual fitting station (shown below – this isn’t me. She’s another CES attendee) allows shoppers to try on clothes and have them fitted virtually. Some of the guys were making me laugh because they were pushing their buddies to try on dresses.

Toshiba Virtual Fitting Solution

This wonderful woman isn't me!

Panasonic’s grooming station (shown) allows guests to try different hairstyles and grooming options before committing to the style. Want to know how you’d look with bangs? This technology will show you. Again, this sparked some humorous exchanges with men sporting mullets and Flock of Seagull hairstyles.