Friday, March 03, 2006

Fido Luggage


This may be the coolest thing I have ever seen:
Fido Luggage.
A robot piece of luggage that you don't have to worry about dragging around, because it follows you.
Whoa.









Fido Luggage appears, at first glance, to be remarkable only because of its colorful exterior and blob-like shape. But then you might notice it has a tail. And that it moves on its own, heels beside its owner, and changes direction on command. The owner wears a wristband, which holds an on-off switch for activating Fido, and a receiver for programming voice recognition. And in ways that only a robot can be superior to a dog, even when Fido gets old, you can still retrain it to respond to new commands.
Now this is what I like to see from technology!

I watched The Jetsons. I felt they had a lot to offer the future. Yet I have been feeling since maturity struck that there is something lacking in this world- I'm speaking of the void left by slowly developing robotics. Where are the helicopter cars? Why don't I have a robot? Where's the new ease of life technology has brought on? Well
this luggage assuages all those concerns in one fell swoop.

Also, that link to the Jetsons found me reading episode's synopsis from the 60s on. Please note I have nothing at all to do at work. Anyway, there were a few that I thought might help us navigate a world that includes more robots:



Mother's Day for Rosie
Rosie wants to meet her mother, who is later discovered to be an obsolete model of a robot maid named Norma. Rosie found out how much she missed her mother when she read one of Elroy's poems that he wrote for Mother's Day at the Little Dipper School. Unfortunately, being a robot, she short-circuits from the tears she cried after reading Elroy's Mother's Day poem. George Jetson who realizes this, tries to bring the scrapped robot, only instead to come back with the original blueprints; but, even only the blueprints satisfy Rosie in the end.

Robot's Revenge
George makes a massage robot very angry. The robot gets fired after George filed the complaint. This calls for revenge, which can be very nasty if the whole world is run by computers and compatible robots.

Wedding Bells for Rosie
Rosie falls in love with the robot of the genitor. To get a "green card" for that robot they need to get married. But can robots get married?

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