Brilliant Weekend Edition!
Brilliant Weekend Edition!
Apple Vision Pro Robots, hostile virtual girlfriends, pogo stick drones and more!
Mike’s List of Brilliantly Bad Ideas
1. Apple Vision Pro to control robots and drones
A newly granted Apple patent reveals ambitious intentions for the Apple Vision Pro. The patent describes scenarios where the spatial computing platform could be used with a robot or drone. The idea is that while wearing an Apple Vision Pro, the user both controls and gets live audio and video from a remote “body.” In a word: telepresence. While working from home, you could work in a far away physical office via a humanoid robot, which could enable you to remotely walk around, attend meetings and frighten colleagues. Or you could inspect a hazardous site while inhabiting a drone. If that sounds farfetch, something like this is already happening in Japan (without Apple Vision Pro), where remote workers are controlling robots in stores to re-stock shelves.
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2. This “virtual girlfriend” is always mad at you
A new virtual girlfriend app for iPhone is always angry. It’s called — what else? — AngryGF. The app is designed to provide practice soothing an angry wife or girlfriend. It’s like Angry Birds, but for relationships. Or something.
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3. Hop-Copter: A drone that bounces and flies
Researchers in Hong Kong have developed a drone called the Hop-Copter that can both fly and hop like a pogo stick. The device has a spring-loaded, telescopic leg that enables the drone to conserve energy, extending the amount of operational time on one battery charge from a few minutes to nearly an hour. I can’t wait for the big version that can carry people (no, they’re not working on this….) Here comes the video!
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