Autonomous flying umbrella follows and shields users from rain and sunlight (designboom.com)
33 points by amichail 2 hours ago
Zigurd an hour ago
I saw this on Facebook before I saw it here. While it bears a superficial resemblance to 1000s of clickbaity tech stunts this one really delighted me. Some of these should be edited into a remastered release of Blade Runner.
zkmon 38 minutes ago
I think this is in the category of excess application of technology
m463 28 minutes ago
I don't know - I got an automatic garbage can that not only opens and closes, it also ejects the garbage bag when it is full and vacuums in another one into place.
today's luxury is tomorrow's necessity.
things get normalized. pop-up ads, selfies, subscriptions, the cybertruck...
rf15 21 minutes ago
you got me, I am deadly afraid of the world in which any of these become a necessity
12_throw_away an hour ago
IMO it's worth watching the video rather than reading someone's writeup of it. My favorite part is this (written) list of everything that went wrong [1] ... and how much of it is due to the intersection of hardware, software, vendors, and linux
tantalor an hour ago
The video is incredibly fucking annoying
12_throw_away 44 minutes ago
Oh, I'm so sorry. This one is more technical, does it meet with your approval? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0la5DBtOVNI
SoftTalker 40 minutes ago
The kid would appear to have a future job opportunity at Cyberdyne Systems.
4b11b4 44 minutes ago
And drenches them in sound
ricardobayes an hour ago
That's really cool honestly. This took me back to around 2017 when everyone was into hardware startups.
derwiki an hour ago
Interesting, not what I remember from 2017. To which hardware startups are you referring?
ricardobayes 7 minutes ago
Well that was the peak of the kickstarter era, tons of wearables and new projects. You know, like Pebble
comrade1234 2 hours ago
Good for a haircut too.
saltcured an hour ago
Yeah, I can only imagine the stability when breezy weather hits that big sail
tamimio an hour ago
>what was supposedly a small project ended up big and complicated
Welcome to the drone world! So many moving parts and one tiny mistake, you end up losing a $60k drone in the ocean (true story!)
That being said, regulations prevent flying drones of any size above people, unless the drone is high to certain altitude, because of all the dangers that bring, a small issues and the props will harm them.
Cool project tho!