...Robot?
By silicon.com, 27 February 2009 11:36
This competition in now closed. The winning caption, from reader Daz Hughes was: "So that's the new gesture based computing interface. Now, rotate your hand 90 degrees and lift your fingers to log off."
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1. Rob
Unfortunately, the printer in the robot’s computer kept on coming up with paper jam
2. Valerie Ganne
IBM finally accepted that chess was to complex for a computer to play
3. P Dragon
Proof that computer nerds cannot get real friends to play games with
4. Robert Lindsay
The banks finally admit they had diverted their computers to other activities
5. Karen Challinor
no it's rock, paper, scissors, lizard monster, spock!
6. Audrey
Kevin was a bit worried about being wired up to the computer, as he’d heard it was a sore loser
7. Nick Fowler
Robocop was trained to identify and neutralise any overtly hostile activity
8. Graeme Teesdale
Ah but did it see the rabbit?
9. Paul Harding
Make me loose one more time, big boy, and it'll be time for some reprogramming.
10. Ian Sargent
In a moment of boredom the student tried to teach the computer all the rude gestures that he'd picked up during Freshers' Week.
11. Paul Brindle
I can't win, even if I flick it the v's it feeds 240 volts down the wires to my fingers and says, "I'm stuck here your the one with legs!"
12. Mike Parmley
Steel fist of death beats scissors.... and paper and stone.
13. anonymous
The ribbon cutting ceremony didn't quite go according to plan.
14. Daz Hughes
So that's the new gesture based computing interface. Now, rotate your hand 90 degrees and lift your fingers to log off.
15. Douglas Schulek-Miller
Interpret this, you French automaton!
16. Chris Sanderson
"You've got to be kidding?! Stone beats scissors! I've lost again!!"
17. Geof Todd
The remote vasectomy system seemed to be working. Now all he needed was a Banker to test it on....
18. kenneth wilkinson
Makers start installing essential sign language data into the worlds first car driving Robot.
19. michael foley
Technology wins again when the human finds out that human "rock" can still be shredded by steel robot scissors...
20. Richard
At last: Robotic nail-clippers for RSI sufferers.
21. Tim Ware
Scissors cut wires, I always win!
22. anonymous
Decision making at the small business support unit at your bank – your overdraft facility gets reduced if the human wins, your overdraft interest rate gets doubled if the robot wins, and you get both reduced overdraft facility and doubled interest rates if neither side wins.
23. John Ray
Cutting edge technology.
24. Tony Sibley
Mail security is improved with the new secret handshake
25. Mike Parmley
The special effects budget for Terminator 4 was not very large.