'Virtual Girlfriend' Demands Gifts

[Florida_Geek]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Virtual-Girlfriend.html

August 26, 2004
'Virtual Girlfriend' Demands Gifts
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 10:44 a.m. ET

HONG KONG (AP) -- She needs to be coddled with sweet talk and pampered with gifts, but you'll never see her in the flesh. A Hong Kong company has developed a ``virtual girlfriend'' for new cell phones with video capability.

Artificial Life Inc.'s electronic love interest -- sort of a Tamagotchi for adults -- will appear as an animated figure on a telephone screen and respond by voice to text messages you send.

But she'll require a lot of attention, involving virtual flowers and diamonds, company spokeswoman Ada Fong said. Though gifts are nothing but data, suitors will have to pay cold, hard cash.

Fong said prices have yet to be determined.

If she's neglected, ``she'll be unhappy and she won't talk to you,'' Fong added.

..more at AP....

[zbdent]

1. Time to give her the virtual finger

and virtually break up.

I'm tired of the virtual BJs.

[otohara]

2. lol

[BigMcLargehuge]

4. HAHAHAH!!!!

Oh man that's a funny response!

[DS1]

3. This is precisely what I've been looking for!

Yay, money holes!

[NewJeffCT]

5. if they wanted a realistic Chinese woman

she'd berate you & then hit you. You can't get that with a cellphone...

[aden_nak]

6. I won't even put up with that kind of crap from a real life girlfriend.