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Posted 1.8.12 at 12:10 am 2 Comments

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Projecting Fantasy

Ollie Bland

“Imagine a toy that takes augmented reality to a new level, bringing a child’s imagination into the physical world. It combines voice recognition and location awareness with sound, image and smell projection. Say ‘spaceship,’ and the very walls of your room become the walls of your vessel, your bed the captain’s chair. Walk down the hall to your sister’s room, and you pass through the airlock and enter a Jovian landscape. Say ‘I’ve got a bad feeling about this,’ and sure enough, stinky little green men come streaming out of the closet. Will you fight them with your finger-laser or try to communicate? The real world becomes your magical adventure.” --Joshua Garrett, Contributor to Battleship LIVE, Monopoly LIVE and Sing-a-ma-jigs

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Read the article: Six Inventors Visualize the Ultimate Toy

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Scythelord

02/12/12 at 1:49 pm

I've thought the same thing before about the Drivable T-Rex. My version differed in using quiet electric motors and is fully enclosed in tough, realistic skin. You would use many pinpoint cameras and screens to view the outside. The whole goal of this imagining was to see the reaction of people having no idea why there is a T-Rex looking at them through their windows. That and possibly terrifying a few wild animals like bears.

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hfmvdl

03/18/12 at 7:53 pm

A drivable dinosaur project ALREADY EXISTS.

Check out Jonathan Tippett's "Prosthesis" anti-robot project in Vancouver at the eatART gallery. http://www.anti-robot.com/
What Robert Victor describes in PopSci in his dream has been in the works in reality (OK, it's 4-legged, not 2) for several years already, thanks primarily to the eatART Gallery in Vancouver, BC, and in part to some really cool engineering done in the MECH undergraduate Capstone Design Project course for which I've been the coordinating faculty member the last few years. Robert, go follow your dream and get Prosthesis into PopSci in real life!

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