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A tiny model hand that plugs into a front USB port by its wrist. When an object is placed on the hand it closes firmly enough to hold stuff: that cord so it doesn't fall on the ground, or the USB drive that's not plugged in, the CD case, pencil, whatever. Lifting the item up disengages it.
Magic Hand Bank
http://www.mileskim...f-8214-000423bb4e95
Another similar device (called "Monster inside the Box") had a more ghostly hand that would reach out and turn off the activator switch after you flicked it on. [jurist, Mar 25 2010]
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This I like quite a lot. [+] |
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This USB hand has so much potential. For example, you could unlock your computer by using a secret hand-shake, rather than a password. [+] |
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I assume that it would be a powered hand and if so would the grip be strong enough to damage inappropriate things placed within the hand? |
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Another potential problem is just how strong is any given USB connector? In some cases the connection could be the weakest link. |
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However it is a good idea.[+] |
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//damage inappropriate things placed within the hand?
..... Another potential problem// |
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This is a non-sequitur, shirley? |
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Cybernetics. Obligatory [+] |
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//Inappropriate things placed in the hand// Would this be
used in conjunction with that "jello wrestling nymphos" site
I hear so much about? |
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Looking at your link, [FlyingToaster], the "east" flash drive looks pretty close to what you have described in your original idea. Despite the fact that it doesn't move, it would hold a cord or a CD case or a pencil. But I like the "eerie" factor that your idea could incorporate, especially if it was made from a greenish-white phosphorescent plastic like the hand from Monster in a Box or Magic Hand Automatic Coin Banks (popular in the late '50s) and was somewhat reminiscent of the (later) Addams Family's "Thing". <link> |
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I'm just thinking of the lawsuits that a gripping hand
might produce. You have to think of the stranger,
possibly accidental applications, whether they
involve jello or not. In the same way it is the duty of
every manufacturer of killer robots to ensure that
they don't go on a murderous rampage ... |
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// killer robots to ensure that they don't go on a murderous rampage // |
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What is the point of a killer robot that can't go on a murderous rampage ? |
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...not big enough for my coffee cup? oh well you can put this little croissant on it + |
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// What is the point of a killer robot that can't go
on a murderous rampage ? // |
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Fiction does contain the concept of respectable
war droids that only shoot the enemy and follow
the rules of war. Hammerstein from 2000AD's ABC
Warriors and Ro-Busters is one such example
although not all of his companions are so well-
behaved. |
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I've always been fond of the robots of Gamma
World, the role-playing game, who are often
murderous by accident because they are following
the rules of long dead civilisations or because they
completely misunderstand the contemporary life
forms that emerged since they were programmed. |
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