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The Soup Robot, in theory, could be quite useful to those who cannot serve themselves. That is unless the robot was a useless pile of scrap metal.
Brought to us by shitty robot maker extraordinaire, Simone Giertz, the robot tries its best to spoon soup into the mouth of its owner. Needless to say, it fails miserably. Please watch.
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It’s the dream of every lazy person… A robot that’ll serve us a beer, so that we don’t have to move. The Beer Robot, by Simone Giertz, will unfortunately have us pouring our own beer for a bit longer.
If you’re not already familiar with Giertz’s work, you should know that she creates terrible robots on purpose. Therefore, the beer-pouring experiment results in a lot of broken glass and beer on the floor. Please watch.
The problem with eating popcorn at the movies, is that it leaves no hands free for other snacking, or to point at the movie screen and yell.
Engineer, Simone Giertz, is here to change all of that, with the Popcorn Machine Helmet. Teaming up with Adam Savage, formerly of Mythbusters, the popcorn-feeder starts to come together after a brainstorm via Skype.
When it’s complete, we have a handy contraption that will help feed the user popcorn — while simultaneously leaving your pointing hand free, and pissing off anyone sitting behind you.
[link, via Laughing Squid]