Gift-Giving Bot Picks Presents For You, on Amazon

From the toy store grab-bags you opened with delight as a child to receiving a "free gift" with purchase at the department store, the excitement of unwrapping a present never gets old.

That's why Darius Kazemi, a game developer from Massachusetts, devised a program -- a "bot" if you will -- called "Random Shopper," that selects a gift for him every month on Amazon.com based on keywords he pre-selected pertaining to his interests.

The "gifts" cost Kazemi $50, so it's more like a surprise grab-bag he's sending himself. So far he's received a CD by kos Rzmann, The Oxford History of World Cinema, and Noam Chomskys Cartesian Linguistics.

Kazemi told Boing Boing that he created t…
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