I stared at the customized requirements document sent by the customer, and the air conditioning suddenly became harsh. The customer with the ID “Lonely Astronaut” wrote in bold red letters, “To be able to maintain skin elasticity at -20°C, chest temperature sensor error not more than 0.5°C, and will automatically switch to vibration mode when encountering Star Trek BGM …….”
“Brother Wang!” I grilled the partition and shouted to the technical supervisor, “Can I take this order?”
Old Wang put the goji berry tea cup to the table a pier, lenses reflecting a cold light: “Last time to install voice-activated deformation function of the rich woman, and finally let us lose eight sets of silicone outer skin.”
The phone suddenly vibrated, and a new message popped up, “Additional requirement: when detecting the user’s tears, the doll should play the classic lines of Big Little Lies and take the initiative to wipe the tears.”
I was figuring out how to politely decline when the glass door tinkled. The man in the dark gray suit rushed in with water vapor, and his tie clip was actually a miniature model of a space capsule: “Can you really make thermostatic dolls?”
“In theory…” I leaned back tactically, “But you’ll have to explain the requirements first.”
The man suddenly pulls out a tablet, and the freezer fogs up white on the monitor screen, “I work at an Antarctic research station, and the heater was knocked out by a penguin last week. But your product manual says it applies to temperatures from -25°C to ……”
My hand that grabbed the tablet froze in mid-air, and the doll wrapped in a down coat in the video was in front of the igloo Biehl, her eyelashes caked with ice crystals. Old Wang came over at some point and suddenly patted me on the back, “Write it down! Antarctica special slogan has – warmer than the emperor penguin!”
At this time the technical department Xiaomei holding express box passed by, the box fell out of a transparent vial. The man suddenly stooped down and picked it up: “Do you use XX brand lubricant? This will solidify into jelly at low temperatures ……”
The air froze for three seconds. Lao Wang silently tuned out the product improvement program, Xiaomei red-faced rushed back to the warehouse, while I finally remembered to ask: “How did you think of wearing an astronautical suit for the doll?”
“During the polar night last year,” the man pushed the capsule tie clip, ”the LED heartbeat light on her chest was the only source of light in the science station.”
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