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Shoutcase
Luggage that shouts for help when it's lost | |
You programme your Shoutcase by preselecting a time,
destination, accent, language and voice message, then you
check it in. When the alloted time has expired - say 8 hours
for a flight from London to New York, your Shoutcase
becomes
"live" and starts to whimper in a plaintive voice "Help me
-
I've
been left behind - I should be in New York by now, someone
please help me - I'm very lonely in here!" Naturally the
message will become more urgent and louder if it is ignored
until baggage handlers arrive to attend to its needs.
Meanwhile
you can relax, confident that your precious lost luggage will
soon be dispatched, if only to shut it up.
Halfbakery: stuff that gets sad when stolen
stuff_20that_20gets_20sad_20when_20stolen
A distant relative of this one. [jutta, Oct 17 2005]
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Imagine the racket when a cargo hold full of shoutcases has been sitting on the tarmac too long, delayed from unloading. Would they start chatting? Argue? Evolve a class system? |
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[wags] If they were British cases, they'd just "tut" loudly. |
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I'm bunning this. I rather like it. It's preposterous of course, but have we let that get in the way of a HB hit? |
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This would inevitably lead someone to take a pick axe to the luggage, of course. |
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There'd need to be some way of determining that it wasn't a stowaway running out of air, but I like it. + |
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Additional functions could include an "OOOF! Take it easy!" during rough handling. |
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I imagine luggage that would otherwise attract the
attention of the security forces, would want to be
discrete and not start shouting for help - dangerous
luggage might be programmed to confuse the staff with
messages such as; "Get me outa here - that black Delsey
beside me is ticking" A stowaway running out of air might
be expected to shout; "Help, I'm a stowaway running out
of air" |
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Or possibly "I am not a bomb". |
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what [jutta] said.. this is a very slight twist on things that get sad when their stolen. |
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Preheated in a Red Dwarf episode, where a wheeled suitcase wanders the spaceport, approaching people and describing it's owner in a wistful manner. |
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Shoutcase: "I should be in <dramatically different voice> New York </ddv> by now. Could someone help me get to <ddv> New York </ddv> please." |
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have you seen "the little toaster?" |
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I just had a look at "stuff that gets sad when stolen" -
what I have described is not a slight twist on this idea,
which I also really like - but how does it work? How does
it "get to know you " ? and why does it get sad - could it
not get happy because it prefers its new owner to the
previous dweeb ? What I'm proposing could conceivably be
manufactured - thought this was the principal behind
bakery? |
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So this is a suitcase that start whining when it is stolen? Sounds like a very sad suitcase. Hang on a minute. I've read about sad stolen stuff before. |
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