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My brother got tired of vacuuming his house, so he bought a Roomba^(TM). I am getting tired of the soap, scrub, rinse routine in the daily shower, so I am offering the Micro-Mini-Personal Body Roomba^(TM). To paraphrase the original Roomba^(TM) sales pitch, I would offer:
* Tight, hard-to-reach
areas are no match for our newest (and smallest!) cleaning robot.
* Quickly and easily washes your entire skin while you sleep.
* Cleans tight hard-to-reach spaces.
* Neutralizes up to 97% of common household bacteria.
I would also offer as optional:
* Micro-weaponized model to protect your personal space against bed bugs in those less-than-reputable conference hotels.
Roomba^(TM)
http://store.irobot.com/
[sqeaketh the wheel, Jan 09 2011]
Hacking Kinect onto a mobile robot
http://www.boingboi...oboticist-phil.html
Getting there [Dub, Jan 15 2011]
Faast
http://www.youtube....watch?v=62wj8eJ0FHw
World of Warcraft with Microsoft Kinect using FAAST and OpenNI [Dub, Jan 15 2011]
[link]
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//* Cleans tight hard-to-reach spaces.//
Ummm, you may need to be a bit more specific in the programming for 'tight spaces', unless you were aiming for secondary, sex-toy usage... |
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Lift your mind and your Roomba up from the gutter! I was thinking of a device dimension of a few mm, hardly suitable for the purpose you imagined. |
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Welcome to the halfbakery [sqeaketh....] Question - what keeps this device attached to your body in a wet shower? More detail please! |
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Well and truly baked in nature. There are many species that have saprophytes which perform exactly the function you describe. |
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People used to have them too, but modern standards of hygene preclude the bacteria which would normally process our dead skin, sweat residue etc. |
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What do you propose your nanites would do with the collected refuse? |
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A logical process might be to compost it and use the products to fuel the nanites - although that would produce the same smell that the process of washing aims to eliminate. |
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Do you see where this argument is heading? |
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Would it not be possible to train a ferret to perform this function ? Ferrets are intelligent, affectionate, scrupulously clean, and enjoy being carried round inside clothing. |
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Hmmm .... pets tend to become like their owners .... hmmm ..... |
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One wonders why he didn't stop buying them after the experience with the first one. |
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How do bun for [21_Quest] on this one?
Could we have a facility to bun/bone for comments as well
as ideas?
I have to assume [8th_of_7] must have run into some
strange mutant form of Ferret (or had a terrible cold) |
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As a newbee, I appreciate the welcoming tone. You have an awesome sense of community here, it seems. |
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Regarding the alleged invention, I actually had in mind eliminating showers altogether. The nanites, as 21_Quest (he who asks one too many questions?) correctly named them, would do their dirty work at night while I sleep. I suppose they should be designed to assimilate the refuse and convert it into harmless CO2. Oh wait,... |
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