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Droopy House Eyelids

 solar-powered shutter lifters
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Insulated window shutters that lift or pivot upwards. The lifter mechanism has a slippy clutch built-in.. i.e. the shutter will slowly drift down under its own weight if the lifting-string-loop is not continually being pulled. A solar panel runs a small motor which pulls on the lifter. In the morning, the shutters are lifted. At night, the house gets sleepy and the 'eyelids' close.
—afinehowdoyoudo, Nov 10 2008

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       Noise-activated too, of course, so that if there's a car crash outside the house, the shutters will jerk open.

Simulating excessive blinking on high-pollen-count days might be going too far.
—hippo, Nov 10 2008
   

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       That church looks like it has Bell's Palsy.
—4whom, Nov 10 2008
   

       <De Niro>   

       "You lookin' at me ? Ah said, you lookin' at me ?"   

       </De Niro>   

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—8th of 7, Nov 10 2008
   

       "I'm telling you it just winked at me!"   


 

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