Art: Vocaloid, Hatsune Miku
Hatsune Miku (初音ミク) is a 16-years-old girl character representing a singing vocal synthesizer Vocaloid, developed by Yamaha.
Vocal synthesizer is a machine that generate singing human voice. So, it'll sing any song, eventually, as perfect or better than human singers.
![Hatsune Miku on car](../arts/i/Hatsune_Miku_on_car.jpg)
![anime girl coming out of screen](../arts/i/anime_girl_coming_out_of_screen.jpg)
Her singing sounds terrible.
There's sci-fi anime story Macross Plus, where a computer AI produced female entertainer named Sharon Apple, represented as a hologram, became a galactic pop idol. Miku Hatsune is a real-life version of Sharon Apple. See: Sharon Apple - Information High (Macross Plus).
![Hatsune Miku Vocaloid Second Life 2](../arts/i/Hatsune_Miku_Vocaloid_Second_Life_2.jpg)
![miku love is war 73142](../arts/i/miku_love_is_war_73142.jpg)
![miku love is war 99754](../arts/i/miku_love_is_war_99754.jpg)
![miku love is war 84592](../arts/i/miku_love_is_war_84592.jpg)
Thanks to Gwern Branwen http://www.gwern.net/, [2012-01-07 wizardgynoid ] ( https://twitter.com/wizardgynoid ) for tips.