Hallowed are the Ori
I feel guilty saying I was looking for this...
I was about to say it. Expected a massive down-vote though.
Ori – Robotic transformation of interior spaces
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Re: Ori – Robotic transformation of interior spaces
#42Apropos, as I just sold my house and am moving into a 1BR apartment. My plan was to slowly encase myself in machinery and assistants and diffuse outwards.
I have this semi-related vision of mobile furniture locomoting from one apartment to the next, during a move, like something out of Fantasia.
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#43Nice, a modern Cabanon (http://www.tinyhousedesign.com/le-corbusiers-cabanon/).
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#44Yeah, remove the motorized part and it's a nice idea. I like multipurpose furniture and rooms. But the maintenance overhead is too much, unless you really, really need to save those 1-3 minutes on switching from bedroom to office...
I'm sure it'll have a mechanical override. The motorized part is just a luxury that can help move things into preferred positions more precisely. Imagine integrating this with the Amazon Echo as well.
"Alexa, I want to lie down" while you go use the restroom.
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#45I like the idea, but I get wary at the thought of getting home at 3 AM (perhaps with company) and finding out that the bed extruding mechanism has failed... It seems the robotic part is a bit overkill, couldn't it just as well be mechanical/manual?
That and if you have a spouse/roommate/etc., you're boned if you want to use the "living room" and they want to use the "bedroom."
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#46As someone that lives in the Southern US, all I can think about is the number of spiders that would live in the cubby the bed slides into.
As someone that lives in the Southern US, all I can think about is how I don't have to optimize my space because my city is livable and affordable.
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#47This concept is often used to expand storage space, where the storage shelves slide sideways. While there are electrically powered systems for long aisles, here's a much simpler system from Uline.[1] If you wanted to build something like Ori, minus the "robotic" part, you could just order the track and rollers from Uline, and build cabinetry out of Ikea parts atop a Uline base. Business opportunity: write an app to d…
A minimum viable product in this space would be a home office. With the unit in the open position, there's a home office with shelves and cabinets on both sides. Roll it into the closed position, and there's a living room with a deep shelving unit.
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#48Hmm page doesn't show anything apart from the footer and header for me on Firefox nightly...
same on FF 47 :(