made me think of The Luggage

hahaha, that´s great, made me crack.
I´ve read good omens first, and only recently a discworld novel. It is Awesome!

(I´ll have to check the discworld sifts now...)

Made me think of something like this, but a bit larger.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Amazing-mechanical-MONDO-SPIDER
...and then there this which is huge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al-CxNrLo6k

Great title. I want one purely for the *wtf factor.

Adding video to channels (Wtf) - requested by MarineGunrock.

If it could climb stairs, you'd have applications as an ambulatory device for amputees and paraplegics. I love the under-side view showing the mechanism in action. You can see that it's not super complicated, just extremely well-engineered.

That is so cool.

Now they just need to make it 6 ft tall and mount laser cannons on the platform.

The skull makes this cool, and not geeky.

ah naive mechanical engineering students, soon to be wiser but unemployed mechanical engineers, displaced by illiterate Malaysian housewives willing to work for $0.10/hr.

If you want to see why Theo Jansen is a big influence on the design check out Theo Jansen sifts.
http://www.videosift.com/search?q=theo+jansen

Check out this monster design:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Theo-Jansens-Rhinoceros
Or his TED Talk
http://www.videosift.com/video/Theo-Jansen-and-his-beach-animals-TED

Yeah, each of these machines will feature two housewives underneath, and one extra as a spare...

>> ^Memorare:
ah naive mechanical engineering students, soon to be wiser but unemployed mechanical engineers, displaced by illiterate Malaysian housewives willing to work for $0.10/hr.

Why?

I'd drive it around if that was frolicking, content kittens underneath. Like 5 kittens with a plate attached above them for me to stand on.
"yea! we're going left!!! Yea!! we're going in circles!!! YEEAAhhh! We're kittens happily carrying this human to woooorrrkkk!!"

otherwise, wheels seemed to have been working out just fine.

This needs to be higher up in the Top 15. *promote.

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Monday, March 16th, 2009 7:29pm PDT - promote requested by arvana.