A Scooter With Everything (For Certain Values of Everything)
Posted by
timothy
on Thursday May 08, @11:51AM
from the next-year-these-will-be-everywhere dept.
An anonymous reader writes
"The folks over at Thought Lab have produced an extremely high-density mobile computing platform in a scooter and have been kind enough to teach us all how to make our own! The end result was a rolling system capable of long-distance war driving, GPS navigation, Skype calls on the road, serving as an Internet hot spot or a low-power pir8 radio station, as well as recording your favorite TV program so you don't miss Lost because you are lost. If that's not over the top enough, you can actually drive your scooter to, say, the Grand Canyon, plug in your electric guitar and perform live over the Web at a whim!"
Water Proof? (Score:5, Insightful)
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It's like that guy with the bike (Score:5, Insightful)
There was some guy who had a bicycle with all sorts of electronics on it about twenty years ago. He had an Internet connection using VHF amateur radio. He kept adding on more stuff, and ended up with a trailer on the bike and pedaling in low gear all the time.
Today, it's kind of silly. Devices in the iPhone size class can do almost everything, so building all this gear into a vehicle is kind of pointless.
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Re:It's like that guy with the bike (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:It's like that guy with the bike (Score:5, Informative)
http://microship.com/flotilla/skr.html [microship.com]
timothy
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Plus it's a scooter.
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Link t the guy with the bike (Score:2)
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The Horror (Score:5, Funny)
I suppose this is so you can capture the final expressions of horror from your victims as you crush them under the weight of your super-accessorized, all-powerful scooter from hell.
In all seriousness, this is a pretty neat build. Convergence to the point of absurdity is always fun.
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pir8? (Score:5, Funny)
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Am I allowed.. (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Am I allowed.. (Score:5, Funny)
Only iif you think of a name for your scooter gang first. May I suggest "Hell's Tech Support"?
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I give it 5 minutes... (Score:2)
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Scooter? (Score:2)
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Also how distracting and interfering with your field of vision is that big ass screen? Distraction is a lethal thing on 2 wheels.
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