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Spillproof Shirt
For those days when you have a meeting due, right after you eat. | |
It's a little known appendix to Murphy's Law that you will spill something brightly coloured and sticky on your white shirt before you go into an important interview or meeting.
BubbaCo Couturiers have the solution for you. A micro-camera and a tiny compressed air gun work together to detect any
item or droplet of food or sauce headed toward your shirt or tie. Upon detection and a quick calculation of trajectory the air gun shoots a puff of high speed air at the offending item, blowing it away from you and your clean clothing.
A chunk of spaghetti bolognaise sauce can be thus kept aloft for minutes at a time, if one person of four or more with Spillproof Shirts drops it at the lunch table.
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Where (and how) is the gun mounted? |
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can you print the pictures taken with the camera - flying spaghetti would make for an interesting image? |
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A small lapel badge could contain a miniature screen which displays live video of the action. If there is no current action,it would display slow-motion re-plays of recent events. |
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You're right, [po]. We could enhance the images, too, then market the footage as Flying Monster Spaghetti or something similar. |
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@pertinax, might need two cameras for purposes of triangulation. One camera under each side of the collar, gun mounted in the pocket. |
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Over the course of the meal, the shirt of the person sitting
next to you will become a mosaic of ketchup, fish, and peas.
Unless they are wearing one too. Nice. |
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Where is all the processing power going to be housed? |
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It does sound quite bulky. Millions of nanodogs though might be able to lick up the mess before it penetrates the fibres of the fabric. |
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Also a good idea to turn it off before you go into the interview, just in case you drop a pencil or a fleck of spittle. |
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Would find much use in schools, "just in case" you drop a pencil or a fleck of spittle. |
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OK, let's be serious here: |
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You're having laksa for lunch.
You have a nice mouth's-worth wrapped around your fork or chopstick when, half-way from the bowl, a noodle cuts loose.
The end of the noodle itself describes a fairly simple arc.
Its payload of bright, oily, chili-laden broth, however, heads for your shirt not on one trajectory but on a continuous series of trajectories tangential to that arc. |
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Now, if you direct a puff of air in a direction directly opposite that of, say, some arbitrary chili seed in the middle, then it may be useless, or worse, in its effect on the travel of those globs of broth released at the beginning and end of the noodle's arc. |
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Multiple puffs of air, like an air gatling gun |
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Better living through discreet auto-turret systems. |
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