WTF ! MIT to eliminate power cords ?

[martin griffith]

lol... Buck Roger's is right.

I'll make up a harder one:
Robots "Huey, Louie and Dewey"

Name that movie S***** R****** ?

This goes back 35 years..
D from BC

The selfaware bomb in Dark Star was cool


martin

 

[D from BC]

Name that movie S***** R****** ?

The selfaware bomb in Dark Star was cool


martin

Damn!
Ok...One more...and I'm going to make this one as tough as I can..

"Had a hose plugging in and was seen vacuum cleaning."

Hint: Not animated.
D from BC

 

[martin griffith]

Damn!
Ok...One more...and I'm going to make this one as tough as I can..

"Had a hose plugging in and was seen vacuum cleaning."

Hint: Not animated.
D from BC

hmm, not sure, dont think it was Forbidden Planet, or was it a crap
Disney film?


martin

 

[D from BC]

hmm, not sure, dont think it was Forbidden Planet, or was it a crap
Disney film?


martin

Nope ...
It's possible there maybe more than one answer but I think it's
unlikely.

...let me rewrite better..

Name that robot that had a hose plugged in and was seen vacuum
cleaning. Ans. ******

D from BC

 

[martin griffith]

Nope ...
It's possible there maybe more than one answer but I think it's
unlikely.

..let me rewrite better..

Name that robot that had a hose plugged in and was seen vacuum
cleaning. Ans. ******

D from BC

Reminds me of Jane Fonda in Barbarella, but apart from that, havent a
clue


martin

 

[D from BC]

Reminds me of Jane Fonda in Barbarella, but apart from that, havent a
clue


martin

I'll answer that at the end of the day.. I'm curious if somebody else
might know..
D from BC

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

I'll answer that at the end of the day.. I'm curious if somebody else
might know..

Rosie the robot on 'The Jetsons'.

--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

 

[D from BC]

Rosie the robot on 'The Jetsons'.

I dunno...I think I recall that... however...
I wrote earlier that it's not animated..
I guess I should have included that again when I rewrote the
question..

D from BC

 

[D from BC]

I'll answer that at the end of the day.. I'm curious if somebody else
might know..
D from BC

Before I forget about this.
Ans.. Kryten from Red Dwarf...
D from BC

 

[krw]

Reminds me of Jane Fonda in Barbarella, but apart from that, havent a
clue

JF wasn't vacuum cleaning. Sucking, perhaps. SHe should have stuck
to what she did best.

 

[Bill Beaty]

It gets rid of the power cord but just look at the size of that coil ! What a bunch of loonies.

Just embed a pancake coil in your livingroom carpet, or hang one on
the back of your door. But from the sound of these articles, the
authors plan on making wireless battery chargers rather than KW power
links.

If it were me, I'd sell it as a toy: a flat flexible coil laid on a
tabletop, then little RC cars (or helicopters!) which run continuously
as long as they remain within a few meters of the coil. As a toy for
the rich, build such coils into ceilings or walls. Run flashlights,
shavers, toothbrushes, Roombas and lawn mowers, etc.

I hate to imagine how 'ungreen' it must be in terms of efficiency too.

Yep, not a "wall wart" but a huge frickn' wall vampire. But for high-
Q tank circuits, the more pounds of copper used, the better the
efficiency. A toy for the rich.


(((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) )))))))))))))))))))
William J. Beaty http://staff.washington.edu/wbeaty/
beaty chem.washington.edu Research Engineer
billb eskimo.com UW Chem Dept, Bagley Hall RM74
206-543-6195 Box 351700, Seattle, WA 98195-1700

 

[Eeyore]

lol... Buck Roger's is right.

I'll make up a harder one:
Robots "Huey, Louie and Dewey"

Name that movie ****** *******
This goes back 35 years..

Too easy.

Silent Running.

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

Nope ...
It's possible there maybe more than one answer but I think it's
unlikely.

..let me rewrite better..

Name that robot that had a hose plugged in and was seen vacuum
cleaning. Ans. ******

LOL.

That was Kryten with his groinal attachment IIRC.

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

Just embed a pancake coil in your livingroom carpet, or hang one on
the back of your door.

No good. It's directional too.

Graham

 

[Bill Beaty]

No good. It's directional too.

It's not like an antenna's dipole radiation pattern, but yes, the
"secondary" coils would have to remain aligned with the "primary."
Not hard for a car or helicopter or floor-cleaner. Or, in the
transmitter use three separate resonators with coils having XYZ
alignment. (Heh. Wind three coils around your entire house. Put
huge pancake coils in two adjacent walls, and one in ceiling.)

 

[Bill Beaty]

No good. It's directional too.

As a kid I made a crude version of this. It was in a magazine as a
"Science Museum" headphone device. Just wind a turn of wire around
your bedroom, hook it to your stereo speaker output (with a load
resistor in series,) then receive the magnetic signal with a Radio
Shack telephone suction-cup coil driving a small amp and headphones.
Baseband audio, no resonators. But if you lay down on the bed, this
turns the receiving coil 90deg, and the music goes away.


(((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) )))))))))))))))))))
William J. Beaty http://staff.washington.edu/wbeaty/
beaty chem.washington.edu Research Engineer
billb eskimo.com UW Chem Dept, Bagley Hall RM74
206-543-6195 Box 351700, Seattle, WA 98195-1700

 

[René]

Damn!
Ok...One more...and I'm going to make this one as tough as I can..

"Had a hose plugging in and was seen vacuum cleaning."

Hint: Not animated.
D from BC

Was this robot serving strange furry beings with weird antennae on
their heads? One of them unwelcome in Poland for alledged sexual
abberations? Named after a near obsolete display technique?

No Idea.

 

[Eeyore]

Was this robot serving strange furry beings with weird antennae on
their heads? One of them unwelcome in Poland for alledged sexual
abberations? Named after a near obsolete display technique?

No Idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryten

Graham

 

[Jim Thompson]

As a kid I made a crude version of this. It was in a magazine as a
"Science Museum" headphone device. Just wind a turn of wire around
your bedroom, hook it to your stereo speaker output (with a load
resistor in series,) then receive the magnetic signal with a Radio
Shack telephone suction-cup coil driving a small amp and headphones.
Baseband audio, no resonators. But if you lay down on the bed, this
turns the receiving coil 90deg, and the music goes away.


(((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) )))))))))))))))))))
William J. Beaty http://staff.washington.edu/wbeaty/
beaty chem.washington.edu Research Engineer
billb eskimo.com UW Chem Dept, Bagley Hall RM74
206-543-6195 Box 351700, Seattle, WA 98195-1700

This scheme is used in churches all the time for the hard of hearing.

...Jim Thompson

 

[Winfield]

This scheme is used in churches all the time for the hard of hearing.

I wonder, if they tire of the sermon, they can lie down in
the pew and it'll go away?