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Prompt Buddy*

Prompt Buddy*

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Do you fumble with retorts when you’re caught off guard in a conversation? Do you get tongue-tied and draw a blank when a strange question is thrown at you? Do you ever wish you could say the right thing at the right time, instead of fifteen minutes after the conversation is over? With Prompt Buddy, you’ll always have the perfect response for every occasion.

Prompt Buddy is available for the DS and PSP handheld gaming systems. This is sophisticated software originally developed by the Israeli Intelligence to allow spies to blend in with locals by providing appropriate responses to questions while in enemy territory.

Conversations are picked up through the included microphone, where they are instantly analyzed by the processor for content, inflection, and meaning. Then an appropriate response is sent to you through a wireless earpiece (also included). The electronically generated prompts are delivered by a synthetic voice only you can hear. The style of the prompt can be customized to suit your personality, and/or to reflect the situation.

With Prompt Buddy you can be witty, hilarious, thoughtful, intellectual, and romantic. You can also throw powerful zingers that could pin would-be verbal assassins to a brick wall. Your mouth will have to be registered as a lethal weapon.

Prompt Buddy has been in development for more than a decade. Israeli scientists have painstakingly analyzed millions of conversations, isolating key words and phrases, and programming a plethora of responses.

Programmer Rube Goldberger gives us a demonstration of the various flavorful responses the Prompt Buddy is capable of. He poses the question, “Is it hot enough for you?” to which we hear some of Prompt Buddies numerous and varied replies:

  • “I should say it’s hot. It surpasses what would have been a marvelous day by ten degrees.” (Agreeable Witty Sophisticate)

  • “When I placed my order, I should have specified Fahrenheit, not Celsius.” (Humorist)

  • “It’s so hot I seem to be looking at a beautiful mirage in front of me.” (Romantically Charming)

  • “I prefer to discuss matters concerning the weather only with trained meteorologists.” (Rudely Dismissive)

  • “You think this is hot? Wait till you get to Hell.” (Rudely Humorous)

  • “Proof of evolution! You can actually talk.” (Nasty Zinger)

    Prompt Buddy will be available this winter. If you want to say the right thing, you’ve got to do the right thing. So buy Prompt Buddy and put your money where your mouth is.

    By Cole Smith

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