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For reference, it’s a whole genre. Not to be confused with appliances that have speakers and bzzt or beep or play jingles or whatever, or for that matter also musical tesla coils, those are much more like speakers.
It’s been a part of computer culture since pretty much forever, now kinda dying out because nothing is mechanical any more.
As the user experience designer, this “singing“ of electronics, and other such devices has been prevalent for the last decade or so. It’s an attempt to humanize the electronic devices we interact with every day. I question its effectiveness or validity, but, nonetheless, it has become extremely popular in both the medical device field and the field of home appliances. Buying an LG or a Samsung appliance, and it will, very annoyingly, play little songs when it’s done doing whatever it does.
I find this a particularly interesting emergent cultural application of anthropomorphism to everyday objects. I wonder how it will progress over the next decade or so.
I said, I’d let you engineer “Happy Birthday” AFTER you finish your thermal dynamics research and designing the servo placement.
-and the engineers happily built shit while arguing about it all
If you like this and haven’t seen “Good Night, Oppy” you should go do that right now.
A documentary, sounds boring.
Troll harder.
I wonder if they pitch-corrected it so it plays correctly in the Martian atmosphere…
Incoming copyright lawsuit in 3, 2, 1…
Maybe it’s not enforceable on other planets?
It was broadcast to Earth!
No free fun allowed!
the first ever song sung on Mars
A missed opportunity for a kazoo-quality Bowie cover.
“It’s a godawful small affair…”
Curiosity isn’t a little robot.
It’s the size of a small car…
That’s what you took from this?
It’s annoying me because that commenter is using a diminutive to try and anthropomorphise a robot.
You can anthropomorphise it but at least have a basic understanding of the dimensions of the thing you’re trying to make cute.
Your mom is the size of a small car, but I still think she’s cute.
I mean, on the cosmic scale that’s the context for the story, both cars and robots are tiny ;) I’m sure the black hole will think they’re cute before gobbling them up.
It’s called worship.
Not a bad thing, just shit when it’s used to control people.
Good on them for expressing their appreciationane love (worship) for something that is expanding our knowledge.
What? Sincerely, what?
I’m not sure where my head was when I commented this.
Just getting at the idea that they’re basically worshipping the thing.
We as people just really like worshipping stuff.
Maybe worship is the wrong word due to its religious connotations, but it’s effectively the same thing to hold these kind of celebrations for items that we revere.
Anyway, I’m not sure why the above was relevant:)
