Whilst trying to take out money form a cashpoint (for our transatlantic cousins it's an ATM) I was struck by just how low they seem to getting these days.

Personally having the screen and keypad at 3 foot off the ground doesn't really make any sense, I'm not exactly a giant, but it's just far too low.

Until cashpoint makers can be arsed to make a monitor/keypad that can be slid up or down, the best I can think of is having the remote arm (pantographically controlled) and the mirror(s).

One approaches the cashpoint, deploys the remote arm and mirrors (to make an upsisde-down periscope) and do the business.

One additional add-on (with something like the The Enigma device) is a non-repeating code whereby people can see you wiggling your fingers, but that gets scrambled by the device and so the robotic fingers hit different keys .

Comes with a laminated A4 sign that says "My robotic arm affixed at groin level is trapped in the cashpoint mechanism, please call the bank or the Fire Service"..it could saves a lot of explanation
-- not_morrison_rm, May 12 2015

Interesting idea. It's a bit of a single-use device though - if only there were other uses for a groinally-affixed arm...
-- hippo, May 12 2015


Petting very small dogs is the first thing I thought of. Really. You believe me, don't you?
-- RayfordSteele, May 12 2015


Would it be possible that the screen is 3 feet off the ground to be accessed from your vehicle? Just sayin' ...or for midgets.
-- xandram, May 12 2015


P sure the low cashpoints are for lads (and ladylads) in wheelchairs. That said, [+] for a pantographic willyhand.
-- calum, May 12 2015


//You believe me, don't you?

Of course I believe you. The third function would be useful holding the soap in the shower, or 4thly, mechanising secret handshakes for conspirators with poor memories.
-- not_morrison_rm, May 12 2015


//Groinally-affixed remote controlled arm and mirror(s)// Do some people lack these?
-- MaxwellBuchanan, May 12 2015


Why not dozens of these, affixed to every body part?
-- pocmloc, May 12 2015


Tetsuo III: Willyhammer
-- calum, May 13 2015


[pocmloc], too spidery appearing, that's why. Or freaking scorpion. No, too many of those would be atrocious. Me thinks.
-- blissmiss, May 13 2015


I see some kind of Olympic Sport coming out of this. Perhaps Ping Pong. To be played at Lillehammer of course.
-- RayfordSteele, May 13 2015


//Why not dozens of these, affixed to every body part?

Because that would be silly.

Anyway, howcome Spiderman han only two legs...shouldn't he be Bipedman, which he is already...
-- not_morrison_rm, May 13 2015



random, halfbakery