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Re: Autonomous flying umbrella follows and shields users from rain and sunlight

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Post by 12_throw_away »

tantalor wrote: post #7
12_throw_away wrote: post #5

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 [1] https://youtu.be/EYRrUiM_A6g?si=T60tAChuo-GNtfqW&t=921

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Re: Autonomous flying umbrella follows and shields users from rain and sunlight

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Post by m463 »

zkmon wrote: post #13

I think this is in the category of excess application of technology

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...

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Post by rf15 »

m463 wrote: post #14
zkmon wrote: post #13

I think this is in the category of excess application of technology

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...

you got me, I am deadly afraid of the world in which any of these become a necessity

Re: Autonomous flying umbrella follows and shields users from rain and sunlight

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Post by ricardobayes »

derwiki wrote: post #9
ricardobayes wrote: post #4

That's really cool honestly. This took me back to around 2017 when everyone was into hardware startups.

Interesting, not what I remember from 2017. To which hardware startups are you referring?

Well that was the peak of the kickstarter era, tons of wearables and new projects. You know, like Pebble

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Post by hdorchy »

noise, autonomy are real constraints. And the wind resistance is a safety critical issue. To make it wind resistant you need to increase the drone's power/weight ratio which works against battery life/autonomy and weight (more battery, more weight) This is a nice technical experiment but cannot work as a general public product in my opinion (I build drones since 2013 and know this topic in depth)

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Post by dlcarrier »

derwiki wrote: post #9
ricardobayes wrote: post #4

That's really cool honestly. This took me back to around 2017 when everyone was into hardware startups.

Interesting, not what I remember from 2017. To which hardware startups are you referring?

One example of the peak of that craziness was in 2016, after Snapchat released glasses with an embedded camera, which were more or less received as as a gimmick by their user base, Snapchat changed their name to Snap Inc and told their investors that they're now a hardware company.
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