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Mechanical Hound
An eight-legged robotic "hound" with hypodermic poison fangs. (Read the full article)
| "I'm finding it hard to picture the hound, at first I pictured a robotic dog, but with eight legs??" (jon 4/19/2006 8:54:15 AM ) |
| "Another robotic hound is "The Rat Thing" from Snow Crash by Neal Stevenson... it used a dog, but with a nuclear-powered engine and mechanical limbs." (El Ricardo 5/13/2006 1:29:59 PM ) |
| "its a robotic dog but with 8 legs (kind of rare)" ( 8/30/2006 7:26:28 AM ) |
| "eight legs makes it not a hound anymore basica.lly" (me 12/4/2006 11:54:21 AM ) |
| "I don't think that it should technically be considered a hound if it had eight legs and it had needle inside its mouth that project out to kill the thing it injest it into. " (more beautiful than you 12/5/2006 11:05:33 AM ) |
"You're probably right, but give Bradbury his due as an artist. Calling it a 'hound' both identified it with Dalmation dogs and messed with your head a little. Here's one person's idea of what the Mechanical Hound really looked like:
 (Mechanical hound replica) " (Bill Christensen 1/26/2007 11:56:19 AM ) |
| "It was probably called a hound because of its olfactory capabilities." ( 2/24/2008 7:33:56 PM ) |
| "Duh, it is the mechanical hound from Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" It is called a hound because it is meant to hunt and kill." (Monkey 4/24/2008 3:30:43 PM ) |
| "i think it looks like one of those toy robotic dogs accept 5x bigger ans where theres one leg, there'd be two." (r 4/27/2008 5:16:17 PM ) |
| "yeah go to youtube.com" ( 5/10/2008 10:16:45 AM ) |
| "sounds cool why is it called the hound???" (DaCraken 6/15/2008 7:50:25 PM ) |
| "how big is it in feet???" (Peepalicious 6/15/2008 7:55:49 PM ) |
| "it doesnt even look like a dog!!! and has anyone even read the book? its totally strange, but it gets you thinking.....
" ( 12/4/2008 5:15:01 PM ) |
| "the book was messed up. I had to read it for english class. this "dog" should not have been considered a dog it showed no traits of a dog. It was a killing robot." (JOHN 12/7/2008 6:16:57 PM ) |
| "What if it was a pug with 8 legs and a needle stickin out of its mouth
I read the book proof:Professor Faber made a little seashell thing for Montag and faber to talk and listen to each other" ( 1/11/2009 6:22:28 PM ) |
| "I think it is more of a Robotic Spider, but, i can understand whay 'poetically' it's called a 'hound'" (BizzyB 3/18/2009 11:45:24 AM ) |
| "thAT is no hound its a spider" ( 4/20/2009 2:16:57 AM ) |
| "IT looks pretty good except that the Hound has a tail also. I also don't think it looks so spiderish." ( 4/29/2009 5:28:17 PM ) |
| "I think that the mechanical dog is awesome!!! YAYAYAYA" ( 5/21/2009 8:13:14 AM ) |
| "I LOVE MECHANICAL HOUNDS. SOO MUCH. THEY ARE SO COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (PENELOPE 5/21/2009 8:14:04 AM ) |
| "what does this robot hound do??
" (joe 11/11/2009 7:29:35 PM ) |
| "i want to know how to achive u at this position.Actully i am in B.Tech 1st year so i want to make some thing like this. so please gauid me if u can" (Dheeraj kumar 2/6/2010 4:01:35 AM ) |
| "it's my email ID dheerajjoy.patel@gmail.com" (Dheeraj kumar 2/6/2010 4:10:19 AM ) |
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