• Wolf Link 🐺
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    539 months ago

    Imagine being cleaning staff in that office. You accidentally drop something during your night shift. All the chairs start driving themselves across the room at 4 AM while you’re completely alone in the building.

    “Heart attack” would be an understatement for the reaction I’d have.

    • @highenergyphysics
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      159 months ago

      I’d be more annoyed at having to plug all that shit in to recharge every night since I doubt there is some complex magnetic drive system under the flooring

      • @dingus
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        49 months ago

        I mean, wireless charging is a thing nowadays

          • TheRealKuni
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            39 months ago

            wireless charging is not a thing until they make every table auto charging my phone

            Shit, I must be plugging my phone in at night and not realizing it then.

            • @[email protected]
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              39 months ago

              If you have that little charging puck connected to a cable thing. Yes. Yes you are plugging in your phone to charge.

              Unless wherever you put your phone on at night is charging it without thought, wireless charging is not a thing.

              • TheRealKuni
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                19 months ago

                If you have that little charging puck connected to a cable thing. Yes. Yes you are plugging in your phone to charge.

                Unless wherever you put your phone on at night is charging it without thought, wireless charging is not a thing.

                Except I’m literally not “plugging in” the phone. I’m placing the phone onto a vertical magnetic surface that uses induction to provide electricity to the phone without wires connecting the charger to the device. That’s wireless.

                And, for what it’s worth, because of the joy of magnetic alignment it largely is “without thought.” Though not the way you mean.

                Just because your definition of “wireless” somehow seems to mean “charge anywhere on any surface” doesn’t mean wireless charging isn’t a thing. It just means you define it differently.

    • Punkie
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      469 months ago

      Having seen these in a demo, they have weight triggers to prevent that. Also in or demo, one got stuck on a power cord, the other on a electrical plate in the floor.

  • @obrenden
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    149 months ago

    Robot chairs, but still using a white board from the 90s

    • @[email protected]
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      309 months ago

      This perfectly describes Japan. The nation of advanced robotics and businesses that still communicate by fax.

    • @dingus
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      99 months ago

      ? What do you use instead of a whiteboard?

        • @dingus
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          109 months ago

          Smartboards are much smaller than most room-sized whiteboards and are infinitely more expensive. Smartboards have certain use cases, but in many situations they don’t make sense.

        • @[email protected]
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          29 months ago

          Those things look tiny! I don’t know where the idea is going in the first place, and I need lots of space for bad ideas and wrong turns.

    • Lemminary
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      69 months ago

      I wouldn’t be mad of they were called Chair-E

  • @hark
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    129 months ago

    A lot of work went into making this minor convenience.

  • @ElectricCattleman
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    59 months ago

    Cool as an experiment. Real world use seems limited. Much cheaper to hire an administrative assistant to clean up after each meeting, since the tabletop also needs tidying.

  • @[email protected]
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    29 months ago

    All I can imagine is someone clapping at a presentation.

    Then the chairs going crazy like ant panic. (While people ride them) 🤣