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TranZorb

Moving house, without help
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Moving furniture sucks. Moving big furniture sucks even more if you don't have an appropriate vehicle.

Enter the TranZorb! Now, all you have to do is manoeuvre the TranZorb around the article and inflate it. (Note: do not attempt to inflate it by mouth, as dizziness and confusion will result). Use the supplied pump, which works off batteries, mains power or solar power... all at different rates of inflation. Then inflate the plug section, which has the same cross section as the inner cavity, before zipping in the inner sphere panel door and zipping the plug into place.

The inner sphere is held inside the middle sphere and sandwiches a layer of lubricant against its outside. The outer sphere maintains a buffer of compressed air about 60cm thick, between it and the middle sphere.

Once the item is in place (Be sure you are outside the room before you inflate it or it won't fit through the door, like Mr Creosote) then you simply get it rolling in the right direction, squashing poodles and gardens as you go.

The lubricant allows the inner sphere to remain upright as it slides inside the middle sphere, which is tethered to the outside sphere. The outside sphere rolls, taking the middle sphere with it.

Once at your destination simply unzip the doors in all three spheres, taking out the plug, removing the furniture and going back for another load.

May also be used as personal transport, in extreme situations such as capsize of your yacht, or refugee exodus on foot.

UnaBubba, Mar 31 2005

TranZorb circuit protection http://www.stealthl....com/surgeguide.pdf
Electrical equivalent [csea, Mar 31 2005]

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       The weird thing is that it would probably work, until you ran over a nail. Viola!, it's also punctureproof.
UnaBubba, Mar 31 2005
  
      
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