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Maybe I am a bit paranoid…but I am more then a little intimidated by this upcoming gadget from Sega. Meet the remote control A.M.P Automated Music Personality, or Ampbo. This black steel death-dealer playful home companion is designed to be hooked up to an MP3 player or iPod on its back. It then plays music over stereo speakers and has turntables for hands that can be used for volume control, sound effects and DJ-style scratching (or establishing holographic contact with the Emperor?).

The 2 and a half foot tall robot can also (dig this)…dance. Yes, it bobs its head while LED lights on its head flash red (and chants “By Your Command” perhaps..or maybe just “EXTERMINATE, EXTERMINATE!”). No official word on if it dishes out pulsing blasts of laser energy to destroy weak biological entities during guitar riffs as well.

Osamu Takeuchi of Sega Toys said the following at the Tokyo Toy Show.

The Ampbot is for men who like robots and who as children dreamed of living one day with robots. It has a real presence in the home by allowing interaction with the owner. The owner can also enjoy being chased around the house by the robot.

Chased around? Riiggghhhtttt. Where is a Jedi when you need one.

Pricing in the US should be in excess of 700 dollars…and a damn good thing too.

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).