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Remember the 1984 David Lynch film version of Frank Herbet's "Dune"? There was a scene that featured a hovering lamp that following the characters as they walked down the corridor. It provided illumination as needed and (presumably) saved energy. I suggest that when we perfect anti-gravity technology,
we develop ashtrays that similarly follow you around at a party. This way, smokers will not be forced to deposit ashes in innapropriate places. Needless to say they would be self-emptying.
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what to do with children at cocktail parties? [benfrost, May 03 2005]
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Fair enough. In the absence of true anti-gravity, this device could be implemented (albeit crudely) with current technology, specifically via personal dirigibles. I'm refering to those mylar toys that often hover inside convention halls during trade shows. They could be modified to carry an ashtray payload. Software could make minor course corrections and proximity sensors could alert catering staff to their presence. An added bonus of this would be that smokers would know exactly where the other smokers are congregating, simply by looking for the airship. If the payload capacity was made large enough, carbon air scrubbers could be attached to the underside of the baloon to clean up offending smoke as well. |
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[+] for the dirigible ashtray, recommend editing the body of the idea. |
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Now wait just a gosh dern moment. What in tarnation is going on around here? |
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When I posted an idea for my eyeglasses to hover around my ankles wherever I went, jutta burst my bubble in 2 seconds flat. (She also smashed my glasses in the process.) |
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//I suggest that when we perfect anti-gravity technology// Simply reeks of WIBNI. I resent those buns...(Should have said that in the Ass Museum, but too late now.) |
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[Bliss] I was bunning this, from his annotation (hence my recommendation for him to update the text of the idea to reflect the anno: |
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//specifically via personal dirigibles. I'm refering to those mylar toys that often hover inside convention halls during trade shows. They could be modified to carry an ashtray payload.// |
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So couldn't my glasses sit in the ashtray, since I don't smoke? |
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What are you smoking? When/if we perfect anti-gravity, floating things like ashtrays and trashcans will be fairly obvious, so fishbone for lack of originality. You are leaving out the sensor, propulsion and control aspects of this idea, anyhow. |
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If we perfect anti-gravity, we can make the ashes, smoke and butts float upwards, and won't need ashtrays at all. |
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Wasn't that cool, that lamp I saw in the movie? Wouldn't it be neat if it were real? |
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Bah, I like this one. Strikes me as better than our usual Zombie ideas; + for a nearly valueless use of antigravity technology. |
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A REAL "Dune Style" ashtray should have little worms moving around inside the ash/sand. |
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The worms could be battery operated. |
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