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Feng Shoes

 Direct your feet to the sunny side of the street.
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Feng Shoes are programmable shoes with tiny, computer-controlled, holonomic castors built into the soles.

Whenever you stop moving, the 6 tiny cameras mounted in the toes, heels and outside edges of the soles feed video data to the shared, wireless-connected control module in the heels, which compares the images with a set of potential situations.

It calculates the most propitious direction for you to be facing, in the given environment, and swivels you around to face that way.

This may sometimes result in a humorous situation, but it's for your "highest and best good".

—UnaBubba, Jun 18 2003

Holonomic motion http://www-2.cs.cmu.../~pprk/physics.html
Holonomic may not be the best word, but it's more descriptive, for this purpose, than omni-directional. [UnaBubba, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]


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       Just remember to turn them off when not in use or you could have an interesting game of hide and seek.
—k_sra, Jun 18 2003
   

       I'd like to protest the imposition of the MFD, if I may.   

       This idea evolved from a discussion about motorized rollerblades, to an idea for rollerblades with sensors to assist with collision avoidance, to rollerblades that turn you to the correct angle to show off your best side like a photo model, to feng shui aware rollerblades to feng shui aware shoes.   

       The pun on shui/shoes became the obvious way to go at that point.   

       Is there some edict banning the use of puns in idea names? I see plenty of them here.
—UnaBubba, Jun 19 2003
   

       I know whatcha mean, Zanzibar - oftentimes it's a question of which came first, The Chicken or The Egg. Naturally, some folks think the ideas were built around the pun, rather than vice-versa. So, as they say, if the shoe fits, wear it.
—thumbwax, Jun 19 2003
   

       Jesus, I fall foul of the anti-pun brigade so often that I've come to believe I'm the only punster still standing.
—UnaBubba, Jun 19 2003
   

       [UB]: I can feel a song coming on...
"Half a post, half a post,
Half a post onward,
All in the valley of [deletion]
Anno'd the (sic) pun thread.
"Forward, the Anti Pun Brigade!"
"Charge for the 'Bubba!" he said:
Into the valley of [deletion],
Anno'd the (sic) pun thread."
—Jinbish, Jun 19 2003
   

       Fear not [UnaBubba], there are many a punslinger (like gunslingers, only you get the urge to hit them) left in this here place, pardner. Etc.   

       Mosey on down and such forth.
—Freelancer, Jun 22 2003
   

       I proposed this idea, to a 'lecturer' on the subject of Feng Shui, yesterday. You should have seen her eyes light up at the thought.
—UnaBubba, Oct 12 2004
   

       I like the way you churn your posts, Bubba. Have a second bun around. +
—k_sra, Oct 12 2004
   

       Thank you.
—UnaBubba, Oct 13 2004
   


 

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