This is actually pretty cool. What's important is not this implementation, but the idea of forming a walkway as needed. This would eliminate the need to have paved roads/areas that don't let water soak in.
My kids would have loved this when they were younger and playing the "hot lava" game. You know, if you fall off (or are pushed off) the couch you'll fall into hot lava.
That would be much cooler if the floor was hot molten lava (redundant, I know) and the robot tiles were the only way out before Goldfinger trained a laser on James Bond's -- oh wait a minute, I got distracted by the screenplay I'm writing.
Useless? No way. Business and the miltiary will think of plenty of uses for smart boxes that know when they are at the end of the line and then move to the front of the line.
Robo-pontoon bridge. Robo-cargo containers that shuffle themselves. Robo-pallets in warehouses to move goods.
I think it'll be most useful in warehouses and on cargo ships.
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21 comments:
It would be great for a music video.
It's an infinite walkway -- for a mime.
As if they needed the encouragement.
You could walk inside a house in Asia and never have to take your shoes off.
Ahem.
Let's try this again - distracted by the video.
This is actually pretty cool. What's important is not this implementation, but the idea of forming a walkway as needed. This would eliminate the need to have paved roads/areas that don't let water soak in.
miller: This would eliminate the need to have paved roads/areas that don't let water soak in.
Wouldn't the robot floor tile still need something solid to operate on?
It's an omage to ObamaCare.
An unnecessary contraption carrying Obama. Always changing, moving and going nowhere.
wv bowni
I think the most important question is: How can we use this during sex?
Wouldn't the robot floor tile still need something solid to operate on?
Forget the ground then
The sensors up in the ceiling relate the idea of satellites.
Flying cars?
Ballroom dancing?
Some capitalist with his insatiable greed will find some way of exploiting this utterly innocent invention.
Practically useless?
I imagine my kids could use something like this to get in and out of their rooms after they haven't cleaned for a while.
My kids would have loved this when they were younger and playing the "hot lava" game. You know, if you fall off (or are pushed off) the couch you'll fall into hot lava.
wv: constan Yeah, sure Stan can play too!
Those tiles need new slipcovers.
re "hot lava"
Ha ha. My kids did that.
Well, this is Japanese, so I'm seeing how they are making this a prelude to Tentacle-furry-scat sex.
I'm impressed. I never thought I'd see cool technology that was even more useless then a Segway.
They seriously need hotter models.
Useless? Wait till they make them small and make lots of them cheap. Instant freeway detour.
That would be much cooler if the floor was hot molten lava (redundant, I know) and the robot tiles were the only way out before Goldfinger trained a laser on James Bond's -- oh wait a minute, I got distracted by the screenplay I'm writing.
Useless? No way. Business and the miltiary will think of plenty of uses for smart boxes that know when they are at the end of the line and then move to the front of the line.
Robo-pontoon bridge.
Robo-cargo containers that shuffle themselves.
Robo-pallets in warehouses to move goods.
I think it'll be most useful in warehouses and on cargo ships.
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