eBay WTF of the Day: Robot Sweater

Finally, a sweater for robots.

It's not an easy time to be a robot, especially one with square shoulders. You're starting to look outdated, as the new-fangled robots are far more humanoid. You keep rusting whenever it rains, and it's darn near impossible to get through security at the airport. Kids stick magnets to you and laugh, dogs bark at you and chase you and you're constantly plagued with the fear that an evil genius could take hold of you at any time and reprogram you to be a killing machine for the military — maybe not even a military you like.

There was a little while there when it was cool to be a square-shoulder robot. The 80s were obviously your heyday, but a couple of years ago you had a kind of resurgence as a vintage icon of geekery. That was a good time. But now, thanks to James Cameron and Avatar and the Cylons from Battlestar Galactica, everyone thinks robots are all supposed to look like Dr. Evil's fembots — virtually indistinguishable from humans if you ignore the bullets coming out of their nipples.

So, really, the last thing you need is to be cold. $79.99 may be a little steep, but no sweater has ever fit you as well as this one will (provided that you are 18 inches shoulder-to-shoulder).

WTF?

Photo by artandarchitecture via eBay.