Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Is this the answer to the Tenerife touts?
Pink Tentacle report that, "Robots can get away with things that humans cannot. In the Minami area of Osaka, for example, a humanoid robot dressed in a ?sailor suit? high school uniform now works the street as a tout for an adult information center ..." Since 2005, Osaka law has banned sex club touts from soliciting business on the street.
If you've ever come on holiday to the resorts in Tenerife, you cannot have failed to have noticed the touts. Those folk who offer you all manner of goods and services; scratch cards (yes, we're certain that everybody wins), bars, lap dancing clubs, fake Rolex watches, iffy gold, or whatever.
It has been reported that touts have been banned in Arona, or at least that some of them are now controlled and require official registration. Some touts have been reportedly seen wearing badges, although the same sources suggest that some of the badges might not be exactly Kosher either, which wouldn't be the least bit surprising, but I don't know, because I don't frequent the resorts.
Whilst we imagine that the authorities could quickly amend the wording of the law to include "tout, whether human or not" (sometimes this may already be doubtful), do you think this could offer an answer to Tenerife's street tout problem?
Robot employed as sex club tout Via: BoingBoing
