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Super Door of the Future
romka1 writes "Japanese scientists came up with a new automatic sliding door that opens to the approximate shape of the person or object passing through, minimizing entry of dust, pollen, and bugs while keeping precious air-conditioning in. Here is a Real Demo Video"
So while you get maybe 2% more insulating efficiency than a regular door when it's open, you get 500% less insulating efficiency when it's closed.
A doorway with hanging vinyl slats would work far better.
Oh wait. Those have been around for 30 years.
OK.. seen the video and this things seems to be working a lot worse than I thought it would. Really, people are going to be hurt using this!
Really.. are we having that much problems with doors?
- Henrik
- when the Shadows descend -
I don't know about the door, but I will buy it if I girl is included in the package.
What will happen to all those cool movie scenes where people kick down doors and bust in with guns blazing?
Because the thing seems to have enough as it is.
They're gonna need a triple wide version if they want to sell this to McDonalds.
I'll look into it when it comes with Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's new GPP feature.
If you just took anything I said seriously, read it again.
Looking at the video, it is a good idea. Their opto sensors which are in the ends of the slides are not as responsive as they should be, but this is a minor diffculty.
Good applications would be between walls of warehouse and shipping. Which could still maintain as a firewall sould one occur.
Additional sensor could be added to detect object other than those centered on the door. Software even in the example could tell the ones above or below to open for at least a 2" minimal clearance.
Again, good concept, just needs a bit of polish.
I can't wait for the thoughts and comments of this door opening exactly enough to accomodate the fat ass of a pear-shaped person.
You know what I'm talking about. Sometimes you see a person who has a really fat ass. There's nothing wrong with having a big fat ass, but you still look at it. Hell, maybe you're even turned on by it. Polite society requries us not to mention it. But it's practiacally an eye-magnet. With super glue on it. And extra gravity (due to mass).
But the door, by nature not constrained to the whims of polite society, will "mention" it.
Or what if the door's sensors/algorithm fails and the person's fat ass gets stuck in the door? I suppose that would be even worse.
I don't make the rules. I just make fun of them.
The .rm file is date 30.9.2004 and the copyright says 2003...
In other news a women from Ohio is sueing japense scientists for their automatic sliding doors insulting her by opening wider for her then anyone else.
Signatures are so 90s