• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      11 minutes ago

      It’s Japan, we all know what they really invented it for. But they needed something acceptable to put on the grant application

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    Can I… uhhm… get one too? Maybe a little more fluffy? Ohh, and it would be nice if it could wag too… U know… Just for… uhhm… balancing purposes…

    (‘~‘; )

    👉👈

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      Theres a few companies that make moving tails (and wings) for a few hundred USD, but they tend to be waitless rather than designed for balancing

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      They got the guy three sets of robohands but couldn’t figure out some mechanolegs for him?

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        Same for this Tail, there are better system to solve postural problems, walking difficulties and other physical issues. How will you simply sit down with this tail? Or precisely in Japan, entering in an Subway with it? They often invent overcomplicated solutions without need, for easy to solve problems, above solving it only tangential and even adding more problems.

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          Just a pitch: Tail can easily be detached and works as a walking cane.

          I do petty every physically sensative individual that has to take overcrowded public transport though

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          Tails only cars. Obviously. Perfectly economical solution to tack a whole other car for the rich people with theriandroid tails to have space.

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    honestly the best posture advice I have ever gotten is to sit like I have a tail (you would have to tilt your hips forward and stick your butt out behind you to put the tail up behind you rather than curling your tailbone under such that you’d be sitting on the tail).

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    I have a feeling a completely different audience has a definite interest. They would just cover it in the same fur as the rest of their costume.

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    Yup. That’s the most cost-effctive solution to the elderly falling problem. Trust me there is no other reason we are doing this.

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      Money for elderly that can prevent them from needing very expensive nursing home care is a huge market with no limit if the product works well. Especially for Japan but really everywhere will have increasingly large cohorts of their elderly people with not enough young people to care for them.

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    18 hours ago

    Imagine working in a retirement home and one day one of the residents tells you “I am taking part in this clinical trial” and then she comes back as Doctor fucking Octopus.