The EE BAFTAs are tomorrow.  Many a year I, and I’m sure you too, have sat at home, nestled up on the sofa watching the coverage from red carpet entrances and interviews, nominations, awards and speeches.  But like all televised events, we’re really just passengers, spectators.  We have no real connection to the event.  We’re not sitting in that theatre, we’re not walking down the red carpet, brushing shoulders with the highest echelons of British talent.  That is, we weren’t, until now.  EE have announced that this year, two lucky fans have the opportunity to be there in person, ish.

The EE Fanbots look like the bastardised love-children of iPads and Segways, controlled from home, rolling around the red carpet and, using video calling, to let you meet celebrities face to digital face and potentially have a conversation.  That is, unless they’re as robophobic as Detective Spooner.

But this isn’t a joke, this is technology at its best.  For the first time, an ultra-elite and exclusive event beyond the realms of most people’s realities, is now tangible.  Real people will be in control of what they see, how they see it, and influence a world that for so long has been a place of aspiration, always just beyond our, the fans, reach

Now, there are only two of these Fanbots rolling around tomorrow, and the ‘pilots’ have already been selected from the ranks of EE’s film community.  However, as the years progress maybe it’ll be you at the controls of one of these, meeting your heroes in person?

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