Do androids dream of.... electric carp???

Is it just me, or has the world suddenly developed and unhealthy obsession with electric animals? Be it robo-dogs from Sony that go "wrrr, wrrr, wrrrr", robot sharks that keeps aquarium visitors enthralled, or now, robot carp. I thought it was bad enough to work in an office where they don't even have real plants - there's something decidedly creepy about recycling dead trees, in the form of oil, back into plastic trees. But now I have to contemplate the true reality that the fantasy portrayed in Phil K. Dick's novel "Do androids dream of electric sheep?" might actualy come to pass.

Be cool, be very cool!

So I read this article on how air conditioned seats could result in a 7.5% saving in car air condition fuel usage which is 522 million gallons of gas a year. Say what! Five hundred and fify-two million gallons? That means Americans are wasting almost 7 billion gallons of gas a year just air conditioning their ride, let alone actually driving it. How about we all just crack the window open instead of cranking the A/C ???