Robotic Suitcase Follows Owner Around Like R2D2
A Russian catelog called Robotronic.ru is already willing to take your money ($2,000) for a ROBOTIC SUITCASE named "Tony," the catelog claims will go on sale in 2009. According to the site, you carry a card in your pocket, which tells the suitcase where you are. It will then use its robotic brain, internal gyroscope, light detectors and both sound and infrared sensors to follow you around without bumping into you or anything else. It can detect stairs, and won't fall down. If someone steals it without also stealing the card in your pocket, an alarm sounds.
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Sweet, Right out of Timothy Zahn's book “Night Train to Rigel”
You have to love it when sci-fi turns into reality.
OK - I want one!!
I've been haulling luggage through airports for way too long. I guess the big question is - will this thing now weigh so much that I have to pay penalty to check it, and have to suffer a hernia to hoist it onto the rental car bus???
Will it automatically find you in baggage claim though?
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Picture yourself relaxing in your first-class seat while reading the latest Girsham novel when you leisurely glance out you windows only to see you bag motoring along beside the plane looking in each window to determine what row you are in. Ok, that would be embarrassing and perhaps a tad dangerous. I smell a lawsuit.
Didn't Terry Pratchet patent this idea?
I'd hate to be the first one to try and get through security at the airport with one of these bad boys.
Poor Little Bill Blass
Tried to fly with some Class
DHS got scared
Bill got ensnared
And now they're probing his...
The bagbot in Kayelle Allen's book At the Mercy of Her Pleasure runs amok and causes all sorts of havoc, with comedic results. Still, I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
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