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License to Sit
Xunker writes "It's the Next Big Thing(TM) in sitting. Okay, so it's a bit of satire from our own Prof. Steve Mann (of Wearable Computer fame). It's basically a time lock chair -- you must buy a 'seating lisence' to use the chair, and if your lisence expires while you're sitting, spikes pop up to remind you you are no longer allowed to sit there. Oh, yeah, dig the terms and conditions, too."
...if you fail to abide by this agreement, we the underwritten can and will remove one (1) testicle of our choice from your body...
Well ladies, it looks like you can pirate all you want!
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Terms of Cease
You will know that your license is about to be terminated from the moment you will fell a critical need to breath while you start heavily sweeting, your sightseeing turns blurry and dark and you hear a slight whispering. If can't manage to renew your license in less than 10 minutes maximum, then you may consider your license terminated, however such termination will be of less concern for you.
Still nothing new, there.
For generations, parisian parkgoers were greeted by (litterally!) charwomen ("chaisières") that collected from them a pittance whenever they set their butts down on one of the many loose chairs that were provided for the visitors' convenience...
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Here is the same point made in comic form, less the spiky chair.
I don't need large brains to have a good time.
my site, as usual. head on over, to check it out. Give it a whirl, and it'll eventually get finished. The terms and conditions are also there.
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Scytle
There are pay toilets all over in Europe. Well maybe not all over, but I did see a few. And they looked pretty nice. They cost about 10-15 cents for a max of 15 minutes, and when you get out it goes into a cleaning cycle. It's quite a spectacle.
...is the coming generation of pay toilets - OUCH!
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If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, forget 'em, because man, they're gone. -- Jack
"If I wanted your lip, I'd rattle my zipper..."
Would this make ass shaped pieces of metal shielding illegal under UCITA?
No mom, I can't get off my ass and do something, I'm paying to sit here!
What a perfect idea!
The toilets there are something out of Star Trek. First, the seat is heated, so no freezing your butt when you get up late at night to do the #2. They sence when you sit on them, and TALK to you (in both Japanese AND English), giving instructions on their use. When you're done, you have the option of having the toilet wash and blow-dry your ass for you. And when you're done, they flush, clean, and disinfect themselves.
And when I say they clean themselves, I don't mean they have that blue bisciut in the tank that drops some perfumed slurry into the bowl when you flush. Nope, toilets in Japan have built in scrubbers that automatically scrub the bowl for you to keep it in pristine condition.
And that's just the low-end model they have in the hotels for us gaijin to use.
I'm told that some of the higher end models in homes over there have on-board equipment that'll analyse your urine and feces for indications of health problems and automatically email your doctor if they detect anything seroiusly amiss, store a history of results for download, etc...
john
Resistance is NOT futile!!!
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Imagine all the people...
Already RAMBUS is claiming that they have a patent on this technology and have planned a lawsuit against the creators of the chair. Likewise Microsoft has also sued stating that they've pioneered giving customers the shaft and any technology that does the same is their intellectual property. :)
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More proof that shrinkwrap licenses are a pain in the ass....
Ok my karma is maxed out. When do I become Enlightened?
They are both designed to be confortable for the majority of ASSES out there.
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